COVID-19 Updates
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‘We needed to do more’: volunteers step up in lockdown Lagos
Twelve friends fill hundreds of carefully arranged aid packages into four cars, then trail through Oniru’s empty streets, past sky-coloured luxury apartment blocks. In what is notionally an affluent suburb…
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Taiwan rewards health minister Chen Shih-chung’s coronavirus success story
There is a saying which has become popular in Taiwan during the coronavirus pandemic: “If you go clockwise, you will win, if you go anticlockwise, you will lose.” It is…
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Lockdown fatigue in US, Australia as Singapore, Japan stay home, Google data shows
More people stayed home in Brazil, Japan and Singapore in April as those countries’ novel coronavirus cases surged, while people in the United States and Australia returned to parks and…
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Health care workers deserve our steadfast support, not just during a coronavirus pandemic
There has been an international outpouring of public tributes to health care workers who have made selfless sacrifices during the Covid-19 pandemic. So why is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong returns to zero infections after earlier five-day streak broken
Hong Kong recorded no new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the sixth time in seven days that there were no fresh infections, with the city’s total at 1,039.Sources said the Centre…
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As the coronavirus-hit world limits exports, can New Zealand and Singapore keep trade open?
Governments’ visceral instinct to look out for their own in times of crisis – even if it hurts friends and allies – could not have been more clearly laid bare…
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Tesla shares fall as Musk says stock too high in 2018-style tweets
Tesla shares plunged after Elon Musk said the electric car maker’s stock is too high in a stream of tweets reminiscent of the posts that securities regulators sued him over…
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Coronavirus: Singapore to ease ‘circuit breaker’ partial lockdown starting May 5
Singapore on Saturday announced that it would gradually ease its partial coronavirus lockdown as the number of cases in the community dipped, with businesses to resume operations in phases starting…
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Hong Kong in talks with mainland China and Macau to mutually recognise quarantine served by cross-border travellers
Hong Kong is in talks with mainland Chinese and Macau authorities to mutually recognise the health status of cross-border travellers to avoid doubling their Covid-19 quarantine periods.The move came as…
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Coronavirus: crackdowns, racism and forced quarantine heighten tension for Africans in Guangzhou
For the first time in the 16 years he has been in China, William Akuma was asked in April to leave his own home.“They came to my house, and said…