COVID-19 Updates
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One-third of all US child Covid deaths occurred during Omicron surge
Children seem to be facing increasing risks as mask mandates are abandoned and vaccination rates stall As many as a third of all child deaths from Covid in the US…
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Australia bans imports of Russian oil, petroleum, gas and coal – as it happened
Australia follows lead of US and UK with latest Russia sanctions; ‘We want tradies to come to Queensland,’ premier says; helicopter crashes in NSW Snowy Mountains; Japanese encephalitis outbreak grows…
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UK economy bounces back from Omicron as more people dine out
All sectors returned to growth in January to help lift GDP by 0.8%, says ONS Business live updates: UK economy rebounds strongly See all our coronavirus coverage Britain’s economy bounced…
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Reflecting on 2 years of Covid-19 pandemic: 3 things we got wrong, and 3 things to look out for
Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a global pandemic.This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting…
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Covid-19 cases surge to 555 as China outbreaks continue, with Shandong hit hardest
China has reported 555 new confirmed Covid-19 cases reported, up from 528 a day earlier.The National Health Commission said on Friday that 397 of the new infections were locally transmitted,…
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Backpackers’ return brings glimmer of hope for Thailand tourism revival
Chiang Mai tourism slowly picks up after two years of despair, though some call for more relaxed Covid entry rules to entice visitors Read all our coronavirus coverage After months…
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Coronavirus: New Zealand’s deflated businesses want end to bubble amid economic pain
New Zealand’s tight Covid-19 bubble was once globally lauded but for local business, the strict border controls increasingly feel like a straitjacket as a lack of foreign workers and tourists…
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Harry and Meghan add voices to fierce critique of west’s Covid vaccine policies
Pair join Gordon Brown and 127 others in attack on ‘self-defeating nationalism, pharmaceutical monopolies and inequality’ Prince Harry and Meghan, the actor Charlize Theron and the former British prime minister…
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‘Unprepared and disorganised’: where did Hong Kong government go wrong in its fight against fifth wave of coronavirus?
After Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor declared on Wednesday universal mass testing was no longer a top priority, many Hongkongers were left staring balefully at their overstuffed freezers…
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US conducting ‘legal review’ of possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine – as it happened
‘Absolutely there should be an investigation’, Harris says in Warsaw Zelenskiy describes Ukraine hospital bombing as ‘genocide’ Twitter launches site on dark web to bypass Russia’s block Sign up to…