COVID-19 Updates
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Australian cricketers set to return from Maldives once India travel ban lifts
Cohort may return this weekend on BCCI-funded charter flight Majority of 38-strong group could quarantine in Sydney Australia’s Indian Premier League contingent could return home in coming days, with cricket…
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Singapore-Hong Kong travel bubble likely to be delayed beyond May 26 after spike in cases, minister says
Hong Kong’s long-awaited travel bubble with Singapore is unlikely to launch on May 26 as planned amid a recent surge in coronavirus cases in the city state, a top official…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong makes hotel quarantine mandatory for Taiwan arrivals amid island’s recent outbreak
Travellers from Taiwan to Hong Kong will be required to quarantine for 14 days in designated hotels, the city’s health minister has said, amid a recent surge of locally transmitted…
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If Australia keeps using hotel quarantine, we must tackle airborne transmission head on | Hassan Vally
It may not be easy, but we can make Australia’s hotel quarantine safer We have seen how dangerous the Covid-19 virus is and the damage it can do, and around…
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Coronavirus India: how Modi ally has suppressed damaging reports about oxygen shortages
As India’s hospitals filled up and long queues emerged outside crematoriums last month, local journalist Anuj Awasthi had a big scoop. Oxygen supplies were being diverted away from his district in…
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‘Today is a great day for America’: Biden removes his mask as CDC relaxes guidance – as it happened
CDC relaxes mask-wearing guidance indoors and outdoors Pelosi says Republican bid to downplay Capitol attack ‘sick’ Speaker suggest ethics inquiry of Greene over ‘verbal assault’ of AOC Ousted Liz Cheney…
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‘Vaccine bubble’ trouble? Rules fatigue, app cynicism, sour mood are among customer hurdles for Hong Kong’s restaurants, bars
In the second of a two-part series, the Post looks at the impact of the government’s moves to ease restrictions on restaurants and bars, depending on the Covid-19 vaccination status…
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Delay in giving second jabs of Pfizer vaccine improves immunity
Study finds antibodies against Sars-CoV-2 three-and-a-half times higher in people vaccinated again after 12 weeks rather than three Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK’s decision…
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China sets up new, more powerful national disease control agency
China launched a new national disease control bureau with more power on Thursday, according to state media, in a move aimed at improving the system to better prevent future outbreaks…
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Investigation: 192 died in Vancouver care homes that delayed declaring coronavirus outbreaks
At least 192 Vancouver care home residents died of Covid-19, and more than 1,000 people were infected, at facilities that deliberately did not declare outbreaks when a “low risk” worker…