COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: HSBC to reopen Hong Kong office to all employees on Monday as fourth wave subsides
HSBC, the city’s biggest currency-issuing bank, plans to reopen its offices to all employees in Hong Kong beginning on Monday as the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections subsides and a…
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Coronavirus: Malaysia warns of rising child deaths; Singapore says sorry after teen gets wrong vaccine
Malaysia’s health authorities have raised concerns about a growing number of coronavirus deaths and serious cases involving children, after a surge in overall infections forced the Southeast Asian nation into…
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Now isn’t the time to make workers in lockdown jump through hoops to get support | Chris Edmond and Steven Hamilton
The Covid support package is clumsy – a cleaner solution would have been to make locked down workers eligible for jobseeker The government’s decision to provide “disaster” payments of up…
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Biden provides details on plan to share 80m Covid vaccine doses globally – as it happened
President explains how the first 25m doses will be disbursed Biden to meet with Queen Elizabeth this month on 13 June Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily…
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Get tested and stay home: Guangzhou tries to stem Covid-19 outbreak
Health authorities in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou are hoping to stem a new outbreak of Covid-19 infections through vastly expanded testing capacity and strict quarantine measures in affected…
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Nepal Covid variant: does it exist and should we be concerned?
UK transport secretary mentioned mutation but Public Health England says it is not examining such a variant Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Another day, another variant.…
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Coronavirus: holiday chaos as Britain removes Portugal from travel green list
Britain said on Thursday that it is removing Portugal from its list of Covid-19 safe travel destinations, meaning thousands of UK residents currently on holiday there face the prospect of…
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Coronavirus: Biden administration reveals plans for first 25 million donated vaccine doses
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Erin Banco on politico.com on June 3, 2021.The Biden administration has announced which countries will…
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How will Portugal’s removal from Covid ‘green list’ affect you?
Whether you are due to fly back shortly or have a holiday booked, your questions are answered here Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Portugal’s removal from…
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Coronavirus: sluggish vaccination rates spell bubble trouble for Hong Kong restaurants, bars operating under jabs-linked rules
For more than a month now, sports bar Rula Live in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district has scrupulously met the tough requirements of the government’s coronavirus “vaccine bubble”.…