COVID-19 Updates
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Dominic Cummings evidence could settle Boris Johnson’s fate
Analysis: Westminster eagerly awaits as former aide prepares to spill beans on key Covid decisions Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage It promises to be the parliamentary…
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US teams up with dating apps to promote coronavirus vaccinations
The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who’ve got their coronavirus shots.The Biden administration said on Friday it’s teaming…
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Hong Kong’s iconic Ngong Ping 360 cable car attraction suffers 82 per cent drop in visitors for 2020 amid coronavirus pandemic
Hong Kong’s iconic cable car attraction on Lantau Island carried about 260,000 visitors in 2020, down 82 per cent year on year, with the venue starved of tourists amid the…
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Despite the ceasefire, Gaza’s health service is on the brink of collapse | Raja Musleh and Alaa Alkhatib
Our hospitals were already under intolerable pressure because of Covid-19. Then came the latest bombardments Today the streets of Gaza City are full of cheering in response to the news…
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Global coronavirus deaths up to three times higher than official figures, WHO says
Up to three times more people have died due to the pandemic than indicated by the officially reported Covid-19 deaths, the World Health Organization said on Friday.So far, more than…
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Cow dung cocktails: why India can’t get enough of quack Covid-19 ‘cures’
Doctors in India are baffled. Despite being told incessantly for more than a year that only masks, social distancing, and handwashing can protect them against coronavirus, some Indians still prefer…
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Coronavirus: how the massive pandemic debt bill has ‘reshaped the global economy for good’
Governments will prop up economies for years to come following the coronavirus pandemic, inflating fiscal deficits to record-high levels without a “return to normal in the economic, political and social…
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Coronavirus: Japan cuts size of foreign Olympics delegations as opposition to Games grows
Organisers of the Tokyo Olympic Games say they have lowered the number of foreigners coming to Japan as athletes, support staff or media workers to about 69,000, although a leading…
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Nepal’s coronavirus crisis spurs Everest hopefuls to ‘camp’ in oxygen-deprivation tents at home
Mountaineer Akash Neggi is fully prepared to take on the world’s highest mountain – after spending several weeks sleeping in a tent in his living room in the US state…
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Australia news live: thousands of striking school students march in climate change protest across country
Student demonstrators call on federal government to do more on climate change; Scott Morrison says this is ‘worst time’ for Victoria to lift taxes; some Covid vaccination sites reportedly operating…