COVID-19 Updates
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Hong Kong street cleaners celebrated in charity’s Lunar New Year campaign
In an alleyway in Kowloon’s Tai Kok Tsui neighbourhood, a husband-and-wife team methodically stack flattened cardboard boxes onto a trolley with machine-like efficiency.Ming and King Chow, both 65, started collecting…
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WHO team says coronavirus ‘most likely’ spread from animal, not lab leak
World Health Organization investigators looking into the origins of Covid-19 in China have said it was most likely that the virus spread to people via an intermediary animal and ruled…
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What are the new UK anti-Covid border restrictions?
Explainer: the rules UK government is putting in place to prevent spread of new variants Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has…
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These wealthy vaccine cheats prove we were never all in this together | Arwa Mahdawi
The rich and powerful are using their influence to get early inoculations. And there’s nothing we can do about it Mo’ money, mo’ problems? More like mo’ money, mo’ vaccines.…
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Coronavirus live news: Germany plans to spend €9bn on buying vaccines; Wuhan lab leak theory ‘unlikely’
German MPs urged to approve extra spending amid slow rollout; lab leak hypothesis ‘extremely unlikely’, WHO official says Wuhan lab leak theory of Covid origin ‘unlikely’ says WHO team Russia…
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UK Covid live: visitors from ‘red list’ countries to pay £1,750 for hotel quarantine; 1,052 more deaths recorded
Latest updates: health secretary sets out full details of new anti-Covid border laws and penalties Covid travel rule-breakers could face 10-year jail term, says Hancock UK Covid contact tracers working…
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Covid travel rule-breakers could face 10-year jail term, says Hancock
Health secretary sets out new measures as Scottish government announces even stricter plans Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Passengers who conceal travel to the UK from…
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Coronavirus: Only handful of secondary schools in Hong Kong intend to test all staff and resume full classes after Lunar New Year, poll finds
Only nine out of nearly 340 Hong Kong secondary schools polled in a survey intend to resume full in-person classes after the Lunar New Year holiday by meeting a government…
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Keele University accepting funds for researcher who shared vaccine misinformation
Donations surge during Covid crisis for work by Prof Chris Exley, author of study linking vaccines and autism Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A British academic…
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European stocks slide; bitcoin retreats from record highs – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news as investors cooled on European stocks and oil futures Tesla buys $1.5bn in bitcoin, pushing price to new high Tesla should…