COVID-19 Updates
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China shuts down city of 17.5m people in bid to halt Covid outbreak
Authorities adopt a zero tolerance policy in Shenzhen, imposing a lockdown and testing every resident three times China’s government has locked down Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people, as…
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Queensland human rights commissioner warns against extending Covid emergency powers
Scott McDougall says the public’s willingness to accept restrictions on their rights might be tested in future pandemic waves All you need to know about Guardian Australia’s state news coverage…
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Coronavirus: Australians told to get boosters to fend off Omicron subvariant threat
Australian authorities on Monday warned the slow roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine booster shots could unleash a new wave of infections amid the threat from the highly contagious BA. 2 subvariant…
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Hong Kong health experts warn numbers will not be falling any time soon as city reports 26,908 Covid-19 cases and 286 deaths
Hong Kong health experts warned they did not expect Covid-19 infections to decline any time soon, predicting the daily caseload would need at least another month to drop as the…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: 75 medical workers from mainland China to arrive on Monday to lend hand in fight against fifth wave
Seventy-five medical workers from mainland China are slated to arrive in Hong Kong on Monday to begin lending a hand in the battle against the fifth wave of coronavirus infections,…
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Has ‘Commander’ Carrie Lam finally got a grip on Hong Kong’s Covid-19 war?
Thank you, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, for taking charge of the messaging and hosting daily press conferences. Standing by your fellow citizens and putting on a surgical mask…
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Barack Obama tests positive for Covid-19, but ‘feeling fine’
Barack Obama has tested positive for a mild case of Covid-19, the former US president said on his Twitter account on Sunday.“I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days,…
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‘Pandemic is not over’: ministers criticised for scrapping UK Covid surveillance
Schemes coming to an end is ‘yet another example of short-term thinking’ Ministers have been accused of “turning off the headlights at the first sign of dawn” after scrapping nationwide…
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France to lift most Covid controls as Macron rides high in polls
Vaccine pass is being scapped as is compulsory indoor mask-wearing in schools and many public spaces France will lift most of its Covid restrictions on Monday, scrapping Emmanuel Macron’s flagship…