COVID-19 Updates
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Long-haul bookings surge for 2022 after summer travel chaos
Adventurers are waiting and saving – determined to make long-awaited trips spectacular With foreign summer holiday plans in disarray following weeks of uncertainty over popular European destinations, more tourists are…
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Have more than 100% of older people been vaccinated? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
To understand vaccine coverage, we need to know how many people there are Across the world, more than 2bn doses of Covid-19 vaccines have gone into arms, and on 2…
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Victoria to receive 330,000 extra Covid-19 vaccines as Greg Hunt urges people to get a jab
Federal health minister says 42% of all Victorians over 50 have had the vaccine as Anthony Albanese calls for purpose-built quarantine facilities in every state • Melbourne aged care resident…
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Wary of Covid-19 vaccine shortages, several Asian governments are determined to develop home-grown shots
Asia-Pacific economies are racing to develop home-grown Covid-19 vaccines as supply shortages threaten to upend containment efforts and prolong the pandemic.Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam are…
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Boris Johnson to call on G7 leaders to vaccinate entire world by end of 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call on fellow leaders at the G7 in Cornwall to pledge to vaccinate the world’s population against coronavirus by the end of 2022.With the…
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Letter from lockdown: ‘I love my hospitality job but I wish I wasn’t a casual in the middle of a pandemic’
Work has stopped but the bills have not. As we moved into the second week of this lockdown, panic once again settled in I love my job, my workmates and…
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Education for girls and vaccines can save Africa from disaster | Phillip Inman
Parts of the continent potentially face a decade of crisis. These two measures are more important than any other in avoiding it There are so many good causes in the…
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Got a staff shortage? Raising wages normally helps
Analysis: As the UK’s post-lockdown hospitality sector struggles to find staff, one obvious solution presents itself From Michel Roux Jr to Tim Martin, from swanky Le Gavroche in London to…
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The key questions Matt Hancock must answer on Covid this week
The health secretary faces a grilling from MPs after Dominic Cummings’s explosive allegations. These are the biggest issues Allies say Hancock sounded alarm over early lifting of restrictions Coronavirus –…
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Coronavirus: Japan plans to give vaccines to Vietnam, Malaysia; Indian states ease lockdowns
Japan is planning to provide Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnam and Malaysia, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Saturday, without saying where it got the information.Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration is preparing…