COVID-19 Updates
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Australia’s Covid vaccination relying on opaque private contracts worth millions
Lack of transparency over deals with private consultants, logistics companies and healthcare contractors adding to ‘layers of confusion’ over rollout From reassurance to shambles: how Australia’s coronavirus vaccine rollout unravelled…
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Virus hotspots could lead to third Covid wave in UK, scientists warn
Boris Johnson accused of dropping pledge to ‘follow data not dates’ and urged to wait for more vaccinations before easing restrictions Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage…
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France and Germany’s Covid vaccination programmes pick up speed
As daily inoculations hit record figures, warning comes of new delays Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Vaccine rollouts in France and Germany have finally begun to…
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Coronavirus: US midwest sees signs of a new wave as hospitalisations soar
ICU beds fill in Michigan as case counts approach November highs, while Minnesota and Illinois also face growing numbers Coronavirus – live coverage There are ominous signs of a new…
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Britain is ‘bouncing back’ into the same old economy
Hopes of a rapid recovery overshadow the fact that the Tories have failed to reinvent the way the UK does business In some government circles, the excitement before Britain’s opening-up…
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Global Covid vaccine rollout threatened by shortage of vital components
Pharmaceutical firms warn of delays to items such as the large bags in which vaccine cells are grown Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Vaccine-makers around the…
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China considers mixing Covid-19 vaccines to offer more protection
China is exploring the option of mixing different Covid-19 vaccines as a solution to the relatively low efficacy of its existing jabs, the head of the country’s Centre for Disease…
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Coronavirus: Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine won’t be supplied to Hong Kong this year, source says, dashing experts’ hopes of replacement for AstraZeneca shots
US drug giant Johnson & Johnson, whose Covid-19 vaccine has been touted by some local health experts as a promising replacement for the AstraZeneca jab, has no plans to supply…
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Coronavirus vaccine shortages hit 60 countries as global deliveries stall
As many as 60 countries, including some of the world’s poorest, might be stalled at the first shots of their coronavirus vaccinations because nearly all deliveries through the global programme…
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Let’s give thanks for what the long winter of the pandemic brought out in us
Throughout China, people are celebrating the arrival of spring. I, too, am excited about what flowers I may see or smells I might savour this spring, my first as the…