COVID-19 Updates
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Dependent on China? How Japan wants to tackle the coronavirus disruption
Japan will launch a subsidy programme to encourage domestic manufacturers to transfer their overseas production bases to Southeast Asia, as the coronavirus pandemic has greatly disrupted their supply chains heavily…
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Symptom-Based Strategy to Discontinue Isolation for Persons with COVID-19
In the context of community transmission where continued testing is impractical, available evidence at this time indicates that an interim strategy based on time-since-illness-onset and time-since-recovery can be implemented to…
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Coronavirus: ban on groups of more than 4 at restaurant tables could be relaxed to 8, sources say as Hong Kong considers easing social-distancing measures
Hong Kong’s ban on groups of more than four per table in restaurants amid the Covid-19 crisis could be relaxed to eight under a government proposal endorsed by public health…
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What’s up with India’s coronavirus lockdown: did it work and what’s the plan now?
Nearly six weeks after India’s government imposed a complete coronavirus lockdown on the country’s more than 1.3 billion residents, the jury is still out on whether the restrictions had the…
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‘How is this possible?’ Researchers grapple with Covid-19’s mysterious mechanism
Respiratory physician Dr David Darley says something peculiar happens to a small group of Covid-19 patients on day seven of their symptoms. “Up until the end of that first week,…
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Coronavirus vaccine: WHO to issue guidelines on proposed use of human challenge trials
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is planning to issue guidelines this month on a controversial approach to artificially expose volunteers to the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 in a bid to…
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UK coronavirus live: government insists it met 100,000 daily test target
This is from ITV’s Daniel Hewitt. He previously reported that hospices were set to run out of PPE “within days” because providers of end of life care were being denied…
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Coronavirus live news: Malaysia rounds up migrants as UN warns of crackdown on vulnerable
Birds’ seven-week reign in Madrid is coming to an end. By 9.30am on Saturday, the musings of blackbirds, the cooings of pigeons and the hooligan shrieks of parakeets had begun…
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UK commuters ‘may be asked to check temperature’ before travelling
UK commuters could be asked to check their temperatures at home before travelling under plans to ease the coronavirus lockdown being considered by the government. A change in physical distancing…