COVID-19 Updates
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Omicron crisis: how a lack of a community-based primary health care system doomed Hong Kong
It was in 1992, after Hurricane Andrew exposed the inadequacies of the US insurance industry, that Warren Buffett coined the warning: only when the tide goes out do you discover…
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Labour condemns PM’s decision not to place limits on MPs’ second jobs
Angela Rayner accuses Johnson of appeasing critical Tory MPs including Theresa May ‘to save his own skin’ Labour has accused Boris Johnson of “appeasing Tory MPs to save his own…
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‘There is a whole lot more to negotiate’: how Covid-19 has changed housemate hunting
From vaccination status to what safe socialising looks like, the easing of restrictions in Australia has brought complex conversations to sharehouses Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen…
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US likely to see Covid cases rise from Omicron subvariant, Fauci says
Biden’s chief medical adviser also says the US is ‘clearly going in the right direction’ on the pandemic The US is likely to see an increase in Covid cases like…
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Oxford Covid jab gears up for final act: saving the rest of the world
After mishaps and misinformation, jab will build ‘global wall of immunity’, says director of Oxford Vaccine Group Exactly two years ago Prof Sir Andrew Pollard was starting to panic. “We…
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Covid restrictions easing across Europe despite surge in cases
Germany to lift most controls despite daily record as cases also climb in Austria, Spain and France Pandemic restrictions are being lifted with alacrity across Europe despite many countries experiencing…
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An evil bear, a tinpot Churchill, a vile virus… My sketch show for our times
The Tories won by a landslide, Brexit got done, Covid loomed… and the Observer cartoonist Chris Riddell picked up his pen. Here he tells of his daily ritual Just over…
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Public health measures are key to curbing Covid in UK, say scientists
On the second anniversary of the first lockdown, experts including Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar, outline what needs to be done to cope with pandemics Stopping the spread of Covid-19…
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Rishi Sunak’s charm won’t save him if he is seen to fiddle while Britons’ pockets burn | Andrew Rawnsley
The chancellor made his reputation with his response to the pandemic. Misjudging the cost of living crisis will break it Rishi Sunak is renowned at Westminster for his nice manners.…
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Greg Hunt backs Australia’s pandemic response despite spiking cases and complaints of ambulance ramping
‘We are a stronger and a better country than many acknowledge’, says retiring health minister Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The federal health minister, Greg…