COVID-19 Updates
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The Guardian view on the ‘festival of Brexit’: judge it on its results | Editorial
Festival UK 2022 has announced its participants – and there’s no sign of tub-thumping jingoism The Festival of Britain in 1951 was conceived as a celebration of Britain’s victory in…
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‘It was special, difficult, perfect’: holidaying with parents after a Covid year | Koraly Dimitriadis
Koraly Dimitriadis had never countenanced the idea of holidaying with her parents as an adult, but Covid has cast a new light on family I haven’t holidayed with my parents…
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Coronavirus: Philippines accelerates vaccination drive as shots arrive from China; Australian city in lockdown
The Philippines expects to ramp up its vaccination drive with the arrival on Monday of the first batch of government-bought doses as more than 10,000 fresh Covid-19 cases, a new record, were tallied and…
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MTR Corp to cut fares by 1.7 per cent starting this summer to help Hong Kong residents ‘ride out tough times’ during Covid-19 pandemic
Hong Kong’s rail operator will cut ticket prices by 1.7 per cent this summer in its first reduction in more than a decade as the economy continues to limp along…
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Will India’s Covishield export halt amid coronavirus surge hurt its vaccine diplomacy?
As countries anxiously await delayed shipments of Covid-19 vaccines, India has defended its decision to halt exports of Covishield, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India (SII),…
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Italy’s tourist industry struggles to survive – ‘even George Clooney doesn’t come any more’ amid the coronavirus pandemic
Just over a year into the pandemic, Venice remains a ghost town. Portofino, a colourful playground for the jet set on the Ligurian coast, and Varenna, on the shores of…
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England’s roadmap for easing Covid lockdown
The government’s plan to unlock England moved a step forward on Monday 29 March. Here’s what comes next Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage England has proceeded…
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Venezuela’s President Maduro proposes paying for coronavirus vaccines with oil
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday proposed paying for vaccines against the coronavirus with oil, though he provided few details about how such a scheme would work.The crisis-stricken OPEC nation’s…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong to offer tourism staff workers about 2,000 jobs at vaccination centres
Hong Kong’s tourism workforce will be thrown a lifeline with officials set to offer its embattled staff members nearly 2,000 temporary jobs with the city’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, the Post…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong to lift ban on residents stranded in Britain; quarantine rules to be eased for arrivals from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore
Key points:– Government urges Hongkongers to get vaccinated if they want to join potential travel-bubble arrangement with Singapore– Officials have already written to Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and New…