COVID-19 Updates
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Hongkongers’ unfulfilled wanderlust spills into paper offerings this Ching Ming Festival, while some sweep tombs amid Covid restrictions
Offerings resembling mainland travel permits, passports and flight tickets among the most popular items. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: ‘thousands’ of residents notify authorities of past infections, another 3,254 cases logged
Officials say they receive thousands of emails every day from residents who missed previous deadline to log past Covid-19 infection. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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‘I lowered my guard’: four people on catching Covid for the first time
ONS estimates that one in 13 people in the UK had Covid at the end of March. Some of them tell their stories The number of people with Covid across…
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Coronavirus: Shanghai’s Covid-19 cases soar by a daily record of 13,354, offering no end in sight for citywide lockdown in China’s financial hub
Shanghai authorities are taking no chances with the highly transmissible Omicron variant, vowing to track down, quarantine and deal with every single case to achieve its “dynamic zero” Covid-19 policy.…
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‘Partygate’: Whitehall braced for top staff to be implicated in Sue Gray report
Exclusive: civil service source cites concern over possible evidence senior officials knowingly broke rules Civil service chiefs are braced for the behaviour of top Whitehall officials to be severely criticised…
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Australia news live updates: legal challenge to NSW Liberal preselections dismissed; Qld to further ease vaccination rules; 38 Covid deaths
NSW supreme court rules dispute over Liberal preselections ‘non-justiciable’; Queensland vaccination rules to ease further from 14 April; Australia imposes new sanctions on Russia as foreign and defence ministers label…
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CDC announces revamp plans, hires outside official for review
The one-month review follows criticism for its pandemic response including initial delays in developing a coronavirus test The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday announced plans…
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New Zealand’s Covid strategy was one of the world’s most successful – what can we learn from it? | Michael Baker and Nick Wilson
This pandemic and future pandemic threats will remain challenging – New Zealand needs to build on its achievements Two weeks ago marked the two-year anniversary of New Zealand’s adoption of…
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‘This is inhumane’: the cost of zero Covid in Shanghai
Patients sick with non-Covid related illnesses are being kept away from hospitals as anger grows over failure to control Omicron See all our coronavirus coverage Jia Ruiling’s* father has been…
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China’s ability to rally its Covid troops showcased in rush to help Shanghai
Medical teams called in from across the country, reflecting a political and social system whose advantages state media say Western democracies cannot match. Read the original article at South China…