COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: what are the Hong Kong financial relief schemes available and can they help SMEs, unemployed affected by fifth wave?
Hong Kong announced on Friday two sets of relief schemes to help ease the heavy economic burden on the city’s workforce caused by stringent social-distancing measures amid a fifth wave…
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China reports first coronavirus deaths in over a year amid omicron surge
Two deaths reported on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as China continues to pursue ‘zero-Covid’ strategy See all our coronavirus coverage China’s national health authorities reported two Coronavirus deaths…
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Coronavirus: China’s zero-Covid policy pushes cash-strapped local governments to the brink
Local governments in China are facing a growing financial burden to meet Beijing’s hardline zero-Covid strategy amid rising health care costs and efforts to control debt, analysts said.China is battling…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong to require extra test for travellers crossing border into mainland China as 16,597 cases reported
Hong Kong has tightened anti-epidemic measures at border crossings in a bid to prevent Covid-19 infections from spilling into mainland China even as the city’s daily number of cases fell…
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Covid and poverty: Hong Kong’s downtrodden survive on food court leftovers, seek out free meals from charities as pandemic takes its toll
Cindy Chan, in her forties and donning a tattered and stained face mask, desperately sweeps items such as biscuits and canned food into her bag from a “Gift and Take”…
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Coronavirus: Chinese officials point to ‘profound lesson’ of Hong Kong to urge elderly to get vaccinated
Mainland Chinese health officials have urged older people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, pointing to the high death rate among elderly Hongkongers in the city’s fifth wave of cases.“The epidemic…
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Ottawa truck convoy cost the city more than C$36m – mainly in police expenses
The costs were more than twice the amount the city budgeted for affordable and supportive housing The truck convoy that paralyzed much of downtown Ottawa for nearly a month cost…
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Jacinda Ardern united New Zealanders when Covid hit. Then a long second lockdown split ‘the team of 5 million’ | Morgan Godfery
Labour’s decline in the polls has government diehards puzzled. But it can be dated to 17 August 2021 and the move to Alert Level 4 Today marks two years to…
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says Ukraine war shows Partygate scandal was just ‘fluff’ – as it happened
Brexit opportunities minister says people will find Partygate scandal ‘fundamentally trivial’ in the context of war in Ukraine. This live blog has now closed. Boris Johnson kicking off two-year election…
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Covid resurgent across UK with infections in over-70s at record high
School leaders also fear staff and student absences are disrupting A-level and GCSE preparations A resurgence of Covid cases is under way across the UK, with infections in the over-70s…