COVID-19 Updates
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How Covid-19 can ruin your sex life: erectile dysfunction a major side effect of the virus in men, study finds
Some men recovering from a bout of Covid-19 have discovered unexpected consequences: having trouble getting and keeping an erection.Could there be a connection between having the virus and sexual difficulties?In…
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15 million people given Covid-19 vaccines in China as Spring Festival nears
More than 15 million people have had Covid-19 vaccines in China as the country prepares for the Lunar New Year, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday, with authorities forecasting…
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Pfizer Covid vaccine could be approved in Australia ‘pretty soon’, says head of advisory committee
Prof Allen Cheng explains how coronavirus vaccines are assessed and what Australia has learned from countries already rolling them out A decision on approving the Pfizer vaccine for use against…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong set to approve Pfizer-BioNTech jab before end of week as deep-freeze storage facility selected
Hong Kong is poised to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine before the end of the week as a Kwai Chung warehouse has been selected to store the vials, overcoming a…
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Coronavirus: Peru doctors go on hunger strike over pandemic working conditions
At least four doctors began a hunger strike on Wednesday as a protest against the substandard working conditions that Peru’s medical workers say they have faced in fighting the coronavirus…
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Coronavirus: European Union moves to bloc-wide recognition of antigen tests
European Union envoys on Thursday struck a preliminary agreement on having antigen tests for Covid-19 carried out in any member country recognised by all 27 countries in the bloc, diplomats…
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Chile approves China’s coronavirus vaccine, CoronaVac, with 10 million doses expected
Chile on Wednesday became the latest country to give emergency approval to China’s CoronaVac vaccine as it battles the coronavirus pandemic which has claimed more than 17,500 lives in the…
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Covid-19 market bubbles, a creation of the distorted global economy, cannot last
The year began with lockdowns and varying degrees of restrictions on movements across the world as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated with new, fast-spreading variants being discovered. Financial markets, however, began…
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Coronavirus: British hospitals left looking like ‘war zones’ after infection surge, says top science adviser
Some British hospitals resemble a “war zone” due to the influx of coronavirus patients in the country’s latest wave of the disease, the government’s chief scientific adviser said on Wednesday.Britain…
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Hong Kong florists have until Friday to decide whether they want to join Lunar New Year flower fairs
Hong Kong florists would have until Friday to decide whether to accept Covid-19 restrictions imposed on them if they joined the coming Lunar New Year fairs, officials said at a…