COVID-19 Updates
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How to survive world’s longest coronavirus hotel quarantine: 3 Hongkongers tell how they endured 21 long days in isolation
In the last week of his three-week hotel quarantine, Arnaud de Surville woke up crying. A successful business executive, he’d never had a mental health issue and hadn’t expected the…
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Coronavirus: Philippines stops nurses from working abroad; Vietnam PM wants eased restrictions
The Philippine government suspended the sending abroad of nurses, and their assistants and aides because the annual limit of 5,000 health care workers deployed has been reached.The processing of permits…
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Covid live: UK under-30s to be invited for jabs this week; Labour calls for ‘amber list’ to be axed
Latest updates: health secretary says Delta variant appears 40% more transmissible; Lisa Nandy says robust quarantine needed for people arriving in UK Tony Blair says fully vaccinated people should get…
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Covid Delta variant ‘about 40% more transmissible’, says Matt Hancock
Under-30s to be offered jabs from next week but variant makes decision on easing rules in England ‘more difficult’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The new…
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Tony Blair calls for new pass to allow vaccinated people more freedoms
Former PM says those who have had both jabs should be treated differently from those who have not People who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 should be able to travel…
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Melbourne aged care resident and nurse test positive for Covid as Victoria records four new cases
Resident is fully vaccinated and asymptomatic and nurse last worked on Saturday as health authorities struggle to contain cluster of two variants Victoria Covid-19 exposure sites; NSW exposure sites Victoria’s…
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Labour to force vote on ‘totally insufficient’ school catch-up plan
Opposition plan comes amid Tory MPs demanding urgent rethink of lost learning scheme The expert view Labour has vowed to force a vote over the government’s “totally insufficient” plans to…
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Data on Delta variant splits scientists on lifting final Covid restrictions
Sage group advises against easing social distancing on 21 June, but others say it is too early to assess risks Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Health…
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Cut of £40m in help for tenants will ‘drive up homelessness’
Renters’ groups shocked as funding in England and Wales for rent shortfalls or deposits is cut to below pre-pandemic levels The government is cutting the funding it gives to councils…
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Adjusting to life After Covid means living on constant alert | Eva Wiseman
Things are beginning to get back to normal, but in other ways everything has changed I’m gazing at the sea again. I don’t know when I started – when I…