COVID-19 Updates
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For better or worse, our universities are hierarchical. It’s why A-levels matter | Nick Hillman
The job of university admissions offices has been likened to landing a jumbo jet on a postage stamp. In their last year of school, pupils apply for up to five…
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A family road trip through Covid-19-hit Europe – one-off experience or a taste of things to come?
“My goodness. Are you really tourists from England?” asks a middle-aged Italian woman with a theatrical throw of her arms in the emptiness of one of the city’s best-loved pizzerias.As…
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Island nations have the edge in keeping Covid away – or most do
Island nations have an advantage when it comes to stopping travellers importing disease, be it Covid or other infections. Seas are usually harder to cross than land, and beaches are…
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Hong Kong third wave: port cluster grows as nearly half of 74 new Covid-19 cases linked to container terminal
Hong Kong recorded 74 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, nearly half of which were linked to a cluster at a container terminal first identified last week.The city has now gone…
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Interim Guidance for Rapid Antigen Testing for SARS-CoV-2
Note: Antigen tests can be used in a variety of testing strategies to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This interim guidance is intended for clinicians who order…
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Coronavirus: in Vietnam’s Da Nang, locals send cash, food as lockdown hits city’s poorest
When Vietnam went over three months without recording new local cases, people were hopeful that the country was returning to pre-pandemic normalcy. Many had lost their jobs and businesses took…
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United Airlines cabin crew in Hong Kong in last-ditch effort to save their jobs, as carrier mulls mass lay-offs
United Airlines’ flight attendants union will head to expedited arbitration with the company next week in a last-ditch effort to stop some 689 non-US based cabin crew, including 230 in…
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Christ the Redeemer reopens in Rio de Janeiro after months of coronavirus closures
Major tourist sites in Rio de Janeiro, including the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking the Brazilian city, reopened to the public on Saturday after being closed for five months…
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US coronavirus live: number of daily Covid tests drops in threat to contain pandemic
It’s not exactly clear what the point of this briefing is, apart from for Trump to tell America how great a job he thinks he is doing, while he trails…
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Calls for nationwide sickout as Arizona district cancels reopening
An Arizona public school district was forced to cancel its plans to reopen on Monday after more than 100 teachers and other staff members called in sick. “We have received…