COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong cuts interval for Sinovac jabs for care home residents as another 52,523 new cases are confirmed across city
Hong Kong has cut the recommended interval between the first and second dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for care home residents from four weeks to three, as the city…
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Coronavirus: South Koreans cast early votes in presidential election amid record case surge; Singapore opens more travel lanes
South Korea kicked off two days of early voting as the country battles a record wave of coronavirus infections, while data showed inflation unexpectedly accelerated in February as rising costs…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: ParknShop, Watsons impose restrictions on certain purchases amid panic buying frenzy
ParknShop supermarkets and Watsons pharmacies are imposing restrictions on the purchase of certain products in the wake of a rash of panic buying sparked by fears of a lockdown when…
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NZ’s parliament protests were frightening but they don’t mean the country is splintering | Max Rashbrooke
Disagreement is a sign of healthy democratic debate not of dysfunction – and hard-core conspiracists remain marginal The occupation of New Zealand’s parliament was fractured from the outset: fascists vied…
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Coronavirus: top Beijing official calls on Hong Kong authorities to live up to their oath and take ‘concrete actions’ in anti-pandemic fight
A top Beijing official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has called on local authorities to have the courage to shoulder their arduous responsibilities and uphold their oath of office by taking…
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Why Hong Kong must lift Covid-19 flight ban and help residents stuck overseas
Hong Kong is now grappling with the fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. After several extensions, the suspension of flights from nine countries is set to last until at least…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong hotel employees offered salary boost to operate isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients
Hotel employees in Hong Kong have been offered a salary boost to join front-of-house operations at venues being used to quarantine coronavirus patients, while more than 200 travel sector workers…
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Separating children with Covid-19 from parents is neither safe nor necessary to curb infection
Hospitalisation is a stressful experience for children and their families. Young children hospitalised without their parents or carers have reported feeling lonely, worried and as if they were being punished.…
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Arthritis drug could help save Covid patients – study
Rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib can reduce risk of death from severe Covid by about a fifth Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A drug used to treat…
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We cling to our memory of the perfect summer – before flood, fire and plague. But the past is gone and we have to wake up | Brigid Delaney
Signs of collapse are everywhere, and if we think it’s possible to return to ‘normal’, then we are deluded The cows are found washed up on beaches, and in Lismore,…