COVID-19 Updates
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The Covid cloud is starting to lift – but two years on, its legacy of grief lingers
US could be turning the corner on the pandemic, but not if you are one of the many people who has lost loved ones or is suffering post-coronavirus symptoms known…
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Scott Morrison says Covid close contact isolation rule ‘redundant’, more mobile homes on way to NSW flood victims – as it happened
Prime minister says old rules ‘starving businesses of staff’; as Victoria records 6,075 new Covid cases and 11 deaths, NSW 12,850 cases and four deaths, Queensland 4,029 cases and six…
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Morrison plays down fresh Covid restrictions as experts say boosters best way to tackle subvariant
NSW health minister also ‘not at all keen’ to reintroduce masks and curbs on movement as reportedly recommended by officials Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing…
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Coronavirus: WHO discusses how, when to declare Covid-19 emergency over
Public health experts at the World Health Organization have begun discussing how and when to call an end to the global Covid-19 crisis, according to people familiar with the matter.The…
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Coronavirus: Australia wants to live with Covid-19 ‘like the flu’, PM says
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the nation’s political leaders want to move to a new phase of living with Covid-19 as though it were the flu, but would consult…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam reveals special access for mainland Chinese truck drivers to speed up supply of essentials, anti-epidemic goods
Drivers supplying goods into Hong Kong will be allowed special access under a new measure to speed up the distribution of essentials and anti-epidemic goods from across the border, the…
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Business alliance plans ‘show of force’ in bid to ensure Hong Kong finance chief’s controversial rent deferral measure proceeds
Political wrangling surrounding a rent deferral scheme proposed by Hong Kong’s financial secretary to help struggling commercial tenants is escalating as a cross-sector business alliance plans to pile pressure on…
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Singapore to simplify ‘difficult to understand’ coronavirus rules
Singapore plans to simplify Covid-19 restrictions that have built up in the city state since the start of the pandemic and intends to further ease entry rules for vaccinated travellers,…
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When reading news on Covid-related deaths, remember three rules
The fifth wave of the Covid-19 crisis in Hong Kong has claimed hundreds of lives, making the city’s seven-day rolling average of Covid-19 deaths per capita the highest in the…
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The Guardian view on schools: it is ministers who require improvement | Editorial
Precarious finances and worrying disparities point to poor stewardship of England’s schools through the pandemic Can schools in England be said to be recovering – or starting to recover –…