COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Singapore sees highest local cases in months; Philippines extends lockdown
Singapore on Thursday recorded 16 new locally-transmitted coronavirus cases, the first double-digit daily jump in months.The health ministry said seven of these infections were family members of an earlier case…
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Coronavirus: genome analysis ‘rules out’ Hong Kong domestic worker getting variant from family at quarantine hotel
A Hong Kong domestic worker, the city’s third locally detected Covid-19 variant case, did not contract the virus from neighbouring guests in her quarantine hotel as initially suspected, a researcher…
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‘It was weird’: scenes from Joe Biden’s speech
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Sarah Ferris and Burgess Everett on politico.com on April 28, 2021.US President Joe Biden’s first joint…
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Vaccination delays for top priority groups in disability sector spark investigation
They were meant to be among the first Australians to be vaccinated, but more than 25,000 disability accommodation residents are still waiting Australia’s disability royal commission will investigate the Covid…
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Australia news live: Melbourne announces new Covid quarantine facility; Frydenberg talks up budget plans
Victoria says 500-bed $15m facility to be built in Mickleham; Australia’s medicine regulator expected to determine whether death of two men in NSW linked to coronavirus jab. Follow the day’s…
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Coronavirus live news: India reports record new infections, deaths; world nears 150m cases
Nearly 1 in 50 people worldwide have had Covid; third of Mexicans show exposure to coronavirus; Cambodia reports national record new cases Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Narendra Modi to…
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‘Sleaze’ doesn’t capture it: Boris Johnson is utterly careless of everyone but himself | Aditya Chakrabortty
Like one of Fitzgerald’s characters, the PM is so insulated by privilege that he will never see the wreckage strewn behind him While writing his last novel, F Scott Fitzgerald…
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‘Shameful situation’: Rome cemeteries run out of space
Funeral directors say up to 2,000 bodies await burial or cremation in warehouses at Prima Porta cemetery Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Steps away from a…
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Border dispute casts shadow over China’s offers of Covid help for India
Analysis: some in China see India’s crisis as a diplomatic opportunity but tensions from last summer remain high As coronavirus rages across India, its neighbour China has made repeated offers…
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Coronavirus: Indians flee for US, charter US$38,000 private jets to UAE to escape crisis
Indians from the millions-strong expatriate community in the UAE are swamping private jet operators with requests to whisk them back to safety, amid reports India’s flag carrier plans to ramp…