COVID-19 Updates
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Lionel Messi helps obtain 50,000 Covid vaccines for South American players
Messi sent three autographed tops to Sinovac Controversial plan to inoculate players before Copa América Lionel Messi has helped to obtain 50,000 Covid vaccines from China for an ambitious but…
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Covid-status certificate scheme could be unlawful discrimination, says EHRC
Exclusive: Equalities watchdog tells government documents could create ‘two-tier society’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid-status certificates being considered by ministers to help open up society…
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Tesco profits fall as Covid costs offset sales surge
Supermarket hired 50,000 temporary workers, with about 20,000 joining permanently Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Tesco’s profits tumbled by almost a fifth to £825m last year,…
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Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant mutating, may become more dangerous, say scientists
Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly Covid-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is mutating in ways that could make it better able to…
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Coronavirus: two pregnant women in Hong Kong who received BioNTech vaccine suffer miscarriages, but no link to jab confirmed as yet
Two pregnant women in Hong Kong who had received the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine have suffered miscarriages, although a link to the jabs has not been established and health authorities are…
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The pandemic has turned people into tutting scolds. I can’t wait for that to change | Megan Nolan
We need to address the distrust that has come from regarding each other’s bodies as fatal, and being encouraged to curtain-twitch and rat on our neighbours A spectre is haunting…
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Coronavirus: India sees melting crematorium, overflowing graveyards and overwhelmed hospitals as infections surge
India is fighting a ferocious second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with hospital corridors across the country overflowing with patients, as ambulances carrying more sick people wait in long lines…
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Why is Hong Kong’s coronavirus ‘vaccine bubble’ plan already drawing flak, and how does it compare to similar efforts globally?
Hong Kong’s incentive-laden plan to boost its sluggish Covid-19 vaccination uptake has prompted an outcry from some of the sectors most affected by the looming rules changes.Hailing it as a…
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How Australia’s coronavirus vaccine rollout really compares with other countries
Israel, Chile and Bhutan are among those who are eclipsing Australia in administering vaccines Australia is 100th in the world for the number of Covid-19 vaccinations administered for every hundred…