COVID-19 Updates
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The Covid pandemic two years on – where we are now in the UK, in numbers
Analysis: With experts concerned over rising case rates, where are we also with deaths, hospital admissions, long Covid and the economy? On 23 March 2020, the day on which the…
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How has the UK economy fared in the two tumultuous years since Covid?
Analysis: the country suffered its worst recession in a century and inflation made an unwelcome return See all our coronavirus coverage Rishi Sunak will give his spring statement on Wednesday…
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Two years of Covid grief: tributes to family, friends and colleagues who died in the UK
Twenty-four tributes for people who have died from coronavirus on the second anniversary of the first lockdown Wednesday 23 March marks two years since the first lockdown. The Guardian has…
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False narratives about Covid left us with millions of deaths – will we challenge them now? | Debora MacKenzie
To stop another, more severe, pandemic, those misleading stories like thinking the virus would burn itself out can’t be forgotten All big experiences in our lives have two realities. There…
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki has Covid-19, but Joe Biden tests negative
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that she is positive again for Covid-19 and would not accompany President Joe Biden to Europe this week for urgent meetings with world…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: schools must have 90 per cent student vaccination rate to resume full-day, in-person classes
Schools must ensure 90 per cent of their students have received at least two vaccine shots against Covid-19 if they hope to resume whole-day lessons in the classroom next month,…
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How pandemics end and what they leave behind
Two years after the first UK coronavirus lockdown, Laura Spinney reflects on what the years after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic looked like, and what we might expect in a…
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Coronavirus: New Zealand lifts most curbs as Omicron peaks
New Zealand’s government said on Wednesday it would lift vaccine mandates for a number of sectors including teaching and police from April 4 as the current Covid-19 outbreak nears its…
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‘A new beginning’: New Zealand to drop Covid vaccine passes and mandates
PM Jacinda Ardern, who oversaw some of the toughest restrictions in the world, says rules will relax after Omicron peak in early April See all our coronavirus coverage New Zealand…