COVID-19 Updates
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Covid booster shot warning ‘underlines urgent need for Australia to make mRNA vaccines’
Pfizer boss flags likelihood that extra jabs will be required – raising prospect of increased global demand Covid booster shot could be needed after nine to 12 months, White House…
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Biden warns of further action ‘if Russia continues to interfere with our democracy’ – as it happened
President proposes summer summit with Putin after sanctions Biden says conversation with Russian leader ‘candid and respectful’ Pfizer CEO: third Covid vaccine likely needed within a year Biden slaps new…
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Covid booster shot could be needed after nine to 12 months, White House says
Pfizer CEO has also said it is ‘likely’ people will need a third coronavirus vaccine dose within a year The US is preparing for the possibility that a booster shot…
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Workers in insecure jobs twice as likely to die of Covid, TUC research finds
Those with no sick pay and fewer rights, such as many care workers and delivery drivers, at higher risk Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Workers on…
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Merkel will receive AstraZeneca vaccine – as it happened
This blog is now closed. For up to date coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, head to the link below: See all our coronavirus coverage 11.49pm BST This blog is now…
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‘Optics are awful’: MPs to be allowed to drink at Westminster again
Fears that resumption of alcohol sales, restricted due to Covid, will incentivise return to Commons Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Plans are under way for MPs…
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This Chinese-Canadian scientist helped cure Ebola. Now she’s at the centre of a viral security drama
She has been hailed as a groundbreaking researcher who helped cure Ebola, bringing accolades and worldwide attention to Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory.For the past two years, however, Dr Qiu Xiangguo…
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Covid variant first detected in India is found in the UK
Seventy-seven cases of B.1.617, which has potentially worrying mutations, reported in England and Scotland Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A coronavirus variant with potentially worrying mutations…
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MPs accuse spads of ‘running shop’ in Covid funding decisions
Public accounts committee points to ‘unusual’ meeting where special advisers altered civil servants’ decisions Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Questions over checks and balances in government…
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St Vincent fears volcano eruption will drive up Covid cases
Officials say lack of clean water and overcrowding among evacuees are hampering prevention efforts Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Officials in St Vincent say they are…