COVID-19 Updates
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Australia news live: Morrison says NT military buildup ‘designed to pursue peace’; ACT reports Covid case in returned diplomat
Facebook bans second Craig Kelly page; NSW to open Homebush Covid vaccine hub on 10 May; China’s foreign ministry says Australia is ‘sick’. Follow latest updates ‘I don’t stop crying’:…
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Coronavirus live news: India deaths pass 200,000; crisis needs global response – Fauci
Study in England says single treatment can have dramatic impact on curbing spread; Fiji fears ‘Covid tsunami’ after India variant outbreak; New Zealand donates $1m; Mutations, politics, vaccines: the factors…
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Coronavirus: US private school bans vaccinated teachers from student contact
A private school in Florida is barring teachers who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 from coming into contact with students, arguing against all evidence that the educators pose a health…
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WHO chief says the Covid surge in India ‘beyond heartbreaking’ – video
The World Health Organization is sending extra staff and supplies to India to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, says the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding: ’WHO is doing everything…
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‘People phone up pleading’: the volunteers battling India’s oxygen crisis
As supplies run low during a devastating second Covid wave, a civilian army has stepped into the breach Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage For more than…
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As Covid-19 surges in Thailand, Prayuth faces crisis of confidence stoked by Thaksin, Clubhouse and ‘fed-up doctors’
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is to meet industry and tourism leaders on Wednesday to discuss how the country, in the thick of a coronavirus flare-up and a month-long lockdown…
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Fears of Covid ‘tsunami’ in Fiji after outbreak found to be Indian variant
Covid-19 outbreak in Pacific nation has forced lockdowns across the country, after the island nation avoided transmission for a year Fijian health officials are bracing for a “tsunami” of Covid-19…
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‘We’re all in this together’: Dr Fauci says world has failed India as Covid cases surge
US’s top infectious disease expert lambasts wealthy countries for failing to provide equitable access to coronavirus vaccines Families of Australians caught in India Covid surge plead for repatriation Why Australia…
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China’s private equity deals surged in 2020 as country emerged from Covid-19 crisis, Bain survey finds
China’s private equity investors benefited from the country’s swift action to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, enjoying a jump in investment value and deal numbers last year, according to global consultancy…
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India’s Covid crisis: Delhi crematoriums forced to build makeshift pyres
Grieving relatives of the dead forced to wait hours for a funeral pyre amid an explosion of new Covid cases Crematoriums in Delhi are being inundated with so many bodies…