COVID-19 Updates
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Wales to allow two households to meet indoors earlier than planned
The drop in Covid cases and ongoing vaccine programme means the government can ease restrictions Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Two households will be able to…
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The Guardian view on taxing the tech giants: time to pay up | Editorial
New American proposals offer the prospect of a global deal against corporate tax avoidance. Britain has a vital role to play in making it work The terrible global cloud that…
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Australia’s aged care nurses still in the dark about promised ‘pop-up’ vaccination hubs
Exclusive: Nursing union says despite multiple requests for details and meetings ‘we haven’t got any information back’ • Some SA aged care workers denied second Pfizer shot • Disability services…
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How long before Australia is fully vaccinated against Covid?
If current trends continue it could take years to reach a rate that will stop the coronavirus circulating • Australia’s vaccine tracker: when will you get the jab? It could…
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While Williamson calls for discipline, our children’s hopes crumble around them | Polly Toynbee
The education secretary’s idea of ‘behaviour hubs’ to teach other schools how to keep order shows just how little he cares “There is nothing Dickensian about a classroom that is…
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UK Covid cases could rise again despite vaccine progress – WHO official
Exclusive: Dr Catherine Smallwood says there is potential for surge unconnected to increases in Europe The success of Britain’s vaccine programme is not enough to protect it from another wave…
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Brandon Lewis restates determination to address problems with Northern Ireland protocol – as it happened
Northern Ireland secretary makes statement following talks with leaders at Stormont. This live blog is now closed. Northern Ireland executive holds emergency meeting over Belfast unrest Northern Ireland unrest: why…
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Walsall NHS trust scholarship awards colleague of nurse who died of Covid
First to receive nurse training funds set up in memory of Areema Nasreen is support worker Sheila Kerai A former colleague of a 36-year-old nurse who died from Covid-19 last…
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Hongkongers stranded by coronavirus travel ban battle to get home from Britain in ‘Hunger Games-style’ fight for flights
Hundreds of seats on two special flights intended to bring stranded Hongkongers home from Britain after the end of a coronavirus travel ban were snapped up in two hours on…