COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: contact-tracing ‘Leave Home Safe’ app records 3.8 million downloads – representing over half of Hong Kong’s population
Hong Kong’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app has recorded nearly 3.8 million downloads – representing more than half of the city’s population – and about 19,000 people have been tested for the…
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Is vaccinating against Covid enough? What we can learn from Chile and Israel
Contrasting lessons from the two countries, both with high rates of inoculation against the virus, show the danger is not past Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage…
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Coronavirus: Tokyo Olympics to reserve hotel for athletes with Covid-19; South Korea resumes AstraZeneca roll-out
Tokyo Olympic organisers plan to prepare 300 hotel rooms for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus at this summer’s Games but show no or minor symptoms of Covid-19, Kyodo…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong ‘does not need to rush’ to secure a third vaccine; 13 new Covid-19 cases confirmed
Hong Kong has enough doses of Covid-19 vaccine and does not need to rush to secure a third type, according to a government pandemic adviser who also warned against a…
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Coalition admits ‘a lot of unknowns’ could derail plan to vaccinate Australia by end of year
Trade minister Dan Tehan says he will travel to Europe to discuss Covid vaccine supply deals, as Labor accuses government of being too reliant on AstraZeneca jab The Morrison government…
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Hong Kong picks AlipayHK, Octopus, Tap & Go and WeChat Pay HK as e-payment providers for HK$5,000 digital voucher scheme, set to launch in summer
Four electronic payment service providers – AlipayHK, Octopus, Tap & Go and WeChat Pay HK – have been chosen to operate Hong Kong’s HK$5,000 (US$643) voucher scheme, which officials plan…
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Hong Kong cabbies signing up with Uber earn more, but taxi council warns they risk breaking the law
Hong Kong cabbies wooed by ride-hailing company Uber say it gave them a lifeline as their earnings slumped through the Covid-19 pandemic, but the city’s taxi operators are unhappy.The Hong…
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India’s cases surging as deadly second wave spreads, Iran imposes 10-day lockdown – as it happened
India records 145,384 new Covid-19 cases and 794 deaths, the highest number of fatalities in more than five months; lockdown ordered in Iran Bolsonaro’s response has led to Brazil catastrophe,…
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French police fine more than 100 diners at illegal underground Paris restaurant
Paris police said on Saturday they had fined more than 100 diners at an underground restaurant flouting coronavirus restrictions and arrested its organiser, after a week of allegations that ministers…