COVID-19 Updates
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Family fear for dying Australian man stranded in Ireland as Emirates cancels flights
John Jobber, who is suffering from end-stage renal failure, prostate cancer and dementia, had a ticket for a March flight home Follow today’s coronavirus live blog State by state restrictions…
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Coronavirus: lockdown at two US bases in South Korea; India starts huge vaccine drive
The US Forces in Korea (USFK) said on Saturday it has imposed a shelter-in-place order on two of its largest bases – US Army Garrison Yongsan and Camp Humphreys –…
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Covid vaccine: 72% of black people unlikely to have jab, UK survey finds
Sage voices concern at BAME uptake and says more must be done to increase trust in vaccine Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Advisers from the Scientific…
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Covid jabs to be accompanied by organ music at Salisbury Cathedral
800-year-old building becomes temporary vaccination centre for priority patients invited by GPs Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Soothing organ music will be played as people over…
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Covid-19 scuppers journey down Amazon of Asia, the Kapuas River in Borneo, so a road adventure has to suffice
Although international travel remains rare in the Asia-Pacific region, domestic tourism in some countries has been booming for months. In Thailand, Phuket saw a huge uptick in visitor numbers for…
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Global report: coronavirus death toll reaches 2 million
‘Heart-wrenching milestone’ says UN chief; China reports 130 new cases in flare-up; India starts mass vaccination campaign Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage More than two million…
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‘Cha-Cha’, anyone? Philippine Congress squares off with Duterte on constitutional changes
A proposed constitutional revamp is dominating discussions in the Philippine Congress once again as allies of President Rodrigo Duterte make another attempt to barrel through charter changes – the so-called…
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Coronavirus: Thailand offered luxury quarantine to tourists to revive economy, but hardly anyone turned up
It’s hard to imagine a more luxurious place to spend two weeks of quarantine than the Anantara Phuket Suites & Villas in Thailand, where visitors are pampered in private residences…
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Covid-19: US says it has new evidence coronavirus may have come from a Chinese laboratory
The US said on Friday it had new information suggesting the Covid-19 pandemic could have emerged from a Chinese laboratory and not through contact with infected animals, the latest salvo…
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Australian Open players locked down as two test positive for Covid-19 after flight from US
Victoria Azarenka, Sloane Stephens and Kei Nishikori confined to hotel rooms after two people on chartered flight test positive Follow today’s coronavirus live blog ‘At the coalface’: what the Australian…