COVID-19 Updates
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Footfall in England up by almost 200% as Covid controls ease
Biggest shopping gains in cities such as Portsmouth, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The number of people visiting shops increased by…
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What do we know about the Indian coronavirus variant?
India will be added to the UK’s red list for travel, with fears over a new variant influencing the decision India has been put on the UK’s red list for…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong expert in vaccine-mixing research to study case of man who got three doses involving Sinovac, BioNTech
A medical expert leading a study on mixing Covid-19 vaccines in Hong Kong will look into a rare case of a 32-year-old man in the city who had received three…
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Lateral flow tests still have a vital role in the UK’s fight against Covid | David Hunter
The speed of LFTs make them an important part of the armoury alongside the more expensive, slower PCR tests Infectious disease modelling shows that if everybody could do a coronavirus…
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Philippine defence officials deny threat to withdraw support from Rodrigo Duterte over South China Sea row with Beijing
Military and defence officials in the Philippines have denied claims they have threatened to withdraw their support from President Rodrigo Duterte if he does not denounce the continued massing of…
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Experts in Singapore wary of rise in mutant coronavirus strains amid plans to relaunch Hong Kong travel bubble
Singapore is facing an uptick in Covid-19 cases amid reports of a rising number of mutant strains circulating overseas, with health care experts saying this trend should be closely watched…
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US workers who risked their lives to care for elderly demand change
Nursing home and home care workers worked long days with inadequate protection during the pandemic – now they want better pay and conditions During the coronavirus pandemic, Shantonia Jackson, a…
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Global Covid-19 cases hit weekly record, topping 5.2 million
More people were diagnosed with Covid-19 during the past seven days than any other week since the start of the pandemic – topping 5.2 million globally – with the worst…
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Wanted: 64 volunteers willing to be reinfected for Oxford Covid-19 study
People who have fought off Covid-19 will be deliberately reinfected in a first-of-its-kind trial at the University of Oxford that may shed light on how to develop more effective vaccines…
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Coronavirus: public health experts warn Hong Kong not doing enough to keep out external Covid-19 threats despite flight ban on India, Pakistan and the Philippines
Hong Kong is not taking adequate measures to guard against the threat of imported Covid-19 cases and infectious new variants of the coronavirus coming in, health experts have warned, starting…