COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: fear and anxiety grip Hong Kong finance, legal professionals after gym outbreak balloons
Fear and anxiety gripped Hong Kong’s banking and legal sectors on Friday after an outbreak of Covid-19 linked to a gym popular with the city’s high-flying professionals ballooned in size.At…
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Hong Kong has recorded its first case of facial paralysis following coronavirus vaccination, report reveals
Hong Kong recorded its first case of a patient experiencing facial paralysis after being vaccinated for Covid-19 last week, officials revealed on Friday, while taking pains to stress that the…
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Italian government approves strict new Covid measures as cases rise
Move could result in half of the country entering full lockdown conditions from Monday Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The Italian government has approved regulations that…
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No reason not to keep using AstraZeneca vaccine, says WHO
World Health Organization tells countries to continue using jab while it looks into blood clot reports Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A World Health Organization expert…
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How Covid spread through Westminster’s corridors of power – timeline
Ministers, Brexit negotiators and royalty caught the virus as UK entered its first lockdown How Covid brought Westminster to its knees 10 March 2020 The health minister Nadine Dorries says…
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Nobody is more irritating when you are ill than your own family | Zoe Williams
My family treated my positive Covid test as exciting news, like they had been watching EastEnders for 17 years and finally something had happened What I never noticed before I…
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Digested week: I can see the light at the end of my lockdown tunnel | Lucy Mangan
Though just as you usher your own children off to school, manbaby Piers Morgan fills the void Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage They’ve … wait, just…
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WHO says no reason not to use AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine
A World Health Organization expert advisory committee is currently looking at AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after some countries paused distribution of it, but there is no reason not to use it,…
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Will vaccines protect from ‘long-haul Covid’? We need answers | Fiona Lowenstein
A recent study found that 30% of Covid patients surveyed still had persistent symptoms nine months later Since the earliest days of the pandemic, members of disability and chronic illness…