COVID-19 Updates
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England’s route out of Covid lockdown taking shape but timings unclear
Analysis: how quickly rules are relaxed will depend on vaccine data, new variants and PM’s patience Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage While the government has said…
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The next pandemic? It may already be upon us | Laura Spinney
Antimicrobial resistance won’t race across the world like Covid-19, but its effects will be devastating. Thankfully, we already know what we need to do to defeat it Coronavirus – latest…
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China played leading role in spreading Covid-19 conspiracies, investigation finds
It took just three months for the rumour that Covid-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of…
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Chinese vaccines reach Zimbabwe as it receives its first Sinopharm doses
A plane carrying Zimbabwe’s first coronavirus vaccines, 200,000 doses donated by China, arrived in the capital Harare on Monday.A further 600,000 doses from China are set to arrive in early…
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Coronavirus: daily average US cases dip below 100,000 for first time in months
Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but experts cautioned that infections remained high and precautions…
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Coronavirus: Auckland in snap lockdown after UK strain found; Australia suspends travel bubble
Two coronavirus infections that prompted a snap lockdown of New Zealand’s largest city on Monday have been revealed as the country’s first cases of the UK strain.New Zealand’s health ministry…
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Coronavirus: Peru ministers resign over secret shots, university denies ex-president part of Sinopharm vaccine trial
Peru’s Foreign Minister Elizabeth Astete on Sunday resigned amid an uproar over government officials being secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus before the country recently received doses from China’s Sinopharm for…
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Hong Kong fourth wave: Covid-19 testing slots fill up as nine new cases recorded on final day of Lunar New Year holiday
Hong Kong confirmed nine new Covid-19 cases – a near three-month low – on the last day of the Lunar New Year holiday, but officials stressed the drop in infections…
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Singapore economy: gradual recovery seen as fourth quarter GDP shrinks less than expected
Singapore’s economy contracted less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter, putting the country on a path to a gradual recovery in 2021 after it marked its worst ever recession…
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Flight attendants laid off during pandemic find new career as high-flyers in Hong Kong’s booming insurance industry
For many former Hong Kong flight attendants who were laid off as Covid-19 brought the airline industry to a standstill, the start of the Year of the Ox has been…