COVID-19 Updates
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Wilko apologises for saying staff could come to work if they had Covid
Retailer backtracks after criticism for ‘reckless’ guidance amid new wave of infections and hospitalisations Wilko has admitted it “got it wrong” for telling staff they could come into work if…
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Coronavirus: ‘over 80 per cent of Hong Kong’s cross-border truck drivers could be out of a job’ as Shenzhen tightens restrictions
More than 80 per cent of Hong Kong’s 8,000 cross-border truck drivers could be out of a job after neighbouring Shenzhen tightened Covid-19 restrictions amid a week-long lockdown, a transport…
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Covid exposed the cracks in the US food system – meet the people trying to fix them
Food banks were inundated, restaurants folded, farmers had to dump produce – but the pandemic also created space for fresh thinking In April 2020, while Covid-19 spread around the country,…
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Outdoor weddings legalised permanently in England and Wales
Temporary measures introduced during Covid crisis will be made permanent from April Outdoor weddings and civil partnerships are to be legalised permanently in England and Wales, ministers have announced. Since…
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Hong Kong private hospitals pledge to reserve 1,000 beds for non-Covid patients as city reports 27,765 infections
Private hospitals in Hong Kong have pledged to reserve a total of 1,000 beds mostly for non-Covid patients to help ease the pressure on the public health care system, while…
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Coronavirus: new cases double in China in biggest 1-day leap since Wuhan
China has reported a doubling in the number of new domestic cases of Covid-19 to more than 5,100, the highest jump in a day since the disease erupted in Wuhan…
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‘Spring of discontent’: wave of strikes looms for Covid-hit railways
Pandemic upended finances, and action over possible job cuts, pay freezes and closures seems likely A “spring of discontent” is looming for the railways as unions and senior rail officials…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: 3.6 million residents infected and nearly 1 million more cases to come, university team says
Hong Kong will close public beaches from Thursday in a further tightening of social-distancing rules as the city continues to record tens of thousands of daily Covid-19 infections, which now…
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Coronavirus: Vietnam set to welcome back tourists; Australia to lift ban on cruise ships
Vietnam is poised to welcome international travellers on Tuesday but a lack of clarity on the rules of a wider reopening while the coronavirus is still rampaging is causing confusion.It…
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Shanghai’s Covid-19 model faces its sternest test yet
For the past two years Shanghai’s policies on Covid-19 have given residents a degree of flexibility and freedom rarely seen elsewhere in China.The city of 24 million residents has never…