COVID-19 Updates
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Hong Kong’s troubled Ocean Park set to tap public purse again for up to HK$2 billion
Hong Kong’s struggling Ocean Park is to tap the public purse again for “a couple of billion dollars” in fresh funding to survive the coronavirus pandemic before overhauling its business…
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A galanthus effort: Covid-hit snowdrop festival moves online
The winter flowers are having a vintage year in Devon, in the unfortunate absence of visitors There was a sense of excitement at the Garden House in Devon this weekend.…
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All UK adults to get first Covid vaccine dose by September, says Raab – video
The foreign secretary has said every adult in the UK will be offered a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by September. In an interview on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on…
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Coronavirus: Norway raises concern over Pfizer jabs for elderly as Australia seeks information
Norway has expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on elderly people with serious underlying health conditions after raising an estimate of the number who died after…
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Bobby Kennedy was right: GDP is a poor measure of a nation’s health
Economically, 2020 was a terrible year for the UK, but the real damage will not be easy to assess Next month it will be official. Figures will provide the first…
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Bleary eyes and chaste kisses at Heathrow as passengers beat air corridor deadline
There were no tests at arrivals – but that changes on Monday as stricter measures finally come into force Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The glamour…
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Arrivals in UK could be asked to stay in quarantine hotels, Raab says
Foreign secretary says all options being considered including measure inspired by New Zealand’s ‘directed isolation’ policy Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage People arriving in the UK…
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Media’s libertarian Covid sceptics under fire from senior Tory
Journalists who downplay virus ‘have a hell of a lot to answer for’, says party vice-chair Neil O’Brien Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A vice-chair of…
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Coronavirus: China reports 96 new infections, links superspreader to 102 asymptomatic cases
China reported 96 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday and 119 asymptomatic cases, of which more than half were linked to a superspreader in the northeast of the country, health authorities…
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Universal credit cut will hit ‘red wall’ seats hardest, Tories warned
Benefits reduction plan set to have most impact on poorest English towns, says thinktank A plan to slash universal credit will have the biggest impact in the poorest towns in…