COVID-19 Updates
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‘Terrible plan’: call for Queensland to stop closing Covid testing clinics as case numbers escalate
Covid-19 infections in the state have increased by more than 50% in the past two weeks Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing One of Queensland’s leading…
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Belly Mujinga’s family still seeking answers two years after death
Transport worker died of Covid two weeks after allegedly being spat and coughed at by irate passenger The family of Belly Mujinga, who died with Covid after she was allegedly…
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Shanghai rules out full lockdown despite sharp rise in Covid cases
Concern about economy leads city to try targeted approach with rolling restrictions of individual neighbourhoods Shanghai has recorded a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, but officials have ruled out a…
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Should rising Covid infections in England, Scotland and Wales cause concern?
Analysis: link between infections, hospitalisations and deaths has weakened but it has not been severed Covid infections are rising in England and have reached unprecedented levels in Scotland and Wales.…
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As Covid precautions fall away across US, some experts advise against ‘wishful thinking’
Public health authorities suggest Americans need to prepare to pivot back even as they tire of the forever pandemic The Biden administration is facing a delicate balancing act between relaxing…
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Students force Chinese university to lift Covid-19 lockdown after protest over restrictions that ‘gave dogs more freedom than undergraduates’
Students in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu have forced the university authorities to lift an extended lockdown on campus after protesting over strict restrictions that one undergraduate said meant…
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Online retailers stop sales of some blood oxygen monitors after investigation
Which? says some of the devices sold by Amazon, eBay and Wish were not legally fit to be sold Amazon, eBay and Wish have stopped stocking some monitors that let…
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Food fight resumes: excitement and eye rolling as Malaysia, Singapore reopen Asia’s busiest land crossing from April 1
Since last year, tens of thousands of Singapore residents have resumed their passion for international travel via the city state’s vaccinated travel lanes, after putting their globetrotting ways on pause…
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Hong Kong’s jobless residents struggling through pandemic find lifeline in fridges filled with free food
Wong Wai-kit has lost count of the number of times he came across desperate people scavenging for leftovers at restaurants and food courts since the Covid-19 pandemic hit Hong Kong…
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From Hong Kong to Canada, ‘do as I tell you’ governments risk trapping us in Covid Groundhog Day
Just before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced humanity to have reached “the end of history”, with Western liberal democracy triumphant as “the final form of human…