COVID-19 Updates
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I got my first AstraZeneca shot. The only lasting effect has been a sense of relief | Ben Butler
It is a pity that Australia’s incompetent efforts to run the vaccine program have helped create more doubt over the medicines themselves I got the AstraZeneca vaccine, and so should…
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Coronavirus: what’s the difference between ‘variants’ and ‘mutants’? With Hong Kong on edge over new cases, here’s what you should know
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing.The recent emergence of local cases with coronavirus variants has…
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Indonesia’s new airline Super Air Jet bets on millennials and post-coronavirus travel bounce
With flight attendants dressed in khaki-coloured tracksuits and a catchy name, Indonesia’s new low cost carrier Super Air Jet is betting on demand from tech-savvy millennials in the world’s sixth…
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Pressure mounts on Australia to support Covid vaccine intellectual property waiver for developing nations
US now supports bid to allow poorer nations to make cheap copies of vaccines, but Australia is holding out • US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines Pressure…
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Scott Morrison says India flights won’t resume before 15 May but medevacs possible
Amid mounting pressure over Australia’s hardline approach, PM says he’s ‘very confident’ repatriation flights will be restored after Covid travel ban expires ‘Rejected and betrayed’: Australians stranded in India speak…
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‘Rejected and betrayed’: Australians stranded in India speak of heartbreak
More than 9,000 Australians remain trapped in India by the Coalition’s Covid travel ban. Many travelled before the crisis to visit sick and dying relatives, and say they are angry…
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Why Singapore moved to 21-day hotel quarantine – and a look at the countries with the longest, shortest and ‘most relaxing’ self-isolation requirements
Singapore on Tuesday announced it would extend its quarantine period from 14 to 21 days for most inbound travellers – except those from seven jurisdictions including Hong Kong – as…
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Two Pfizer Covid vaccine doses give over 95% protection, shows Israel study
First research of its kind shows power of vaccines to stem pandemic, cutting hospitalisation, death and infection rates Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Two doses of…
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Coronavirus: ‘vaccine tours’ to US, Russia offered to wealthy Thais fretting over slow roll-out
Travel agencies in Thailand are selling coronavirus “vaccine tours” to the United States, as some wealthy Thais grow impatient awaiting mass inoculations that are still a month away amid the…
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Coronavirus: US to back waiving intellectual property protections for vaccines
The US will back a proposal to waive intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines, with the Biden administration’s top trade official citing the “extraordinary circumstances” of a pandemic that has…