COVID-19 Updates
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Access to NHS mental health for children remains a ‘postcode lottery’
Covid pandemic has seen referrals in England drop as more children than ever are struggling, says report Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Children’s access to specialist…
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Coronavirus: Australia set to reopen to foreign tourists on February 21; Papua New Guinea PM home from China after testing positive
Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travellers from February 21 in a further relaxation of pandemic restrictions announced on Monday.Australia imposed some of the world’s…
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Coronavirus: Canada vaccine protests ‘out of control’; Russia reaches 180,000 cases daily
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on Sunday declared a state of emergency to help deal with an unprecedented 10-day occupation by protesting truckers that has shut down much of the core…
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Covid live: Russian cases hit new record of 180,000; pandemic memorial woodlands to be planted in Wales
Rise in infections in Russia attributed to Omicron wave; Welsh government says woodlands ‘will be living memorial to those who have died’ It’s no coincidence vastly unequal US has world’s…
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Bucket, spade and a pile of red tape: UK travellers warned about Covid rule traps
Tourists who had their jabs more than 270 days ago need a booster to enter France, Spain and Denmark Travellers have been warned to check their half-term holiday plans to…
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Question Time showed that you can’t counter anti-vax myths with cold reason alone | Sonia Sodha
Changing minds is more complicated than simply exposing poor arguments How do you react when someone politely but firmly tells you that you’re talking nonsense about something that’s important to…
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China, WHO seek ‘stronger collaboration’ on Covid-19 origins probe
China and the World Health Organization have discussed the need for “stronger collaboration” on tracing the origins of Covid-19, amid tensions over the WHO’s plans to further investigate the theory…
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‘Dynamic zero infection’ strategy works on the mainland, but not in hands of Hong Kong officials
Patriot and lawmaker Junius Ho Kwan-yiu recently suggested that health experts who were in favour of Hong Kong “living with Covid” could be contravening the national security law. According to…
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I didn’t take Covid seriously, admits leading statistician
Sir David Spiegelhalter tells Desert Island Discs he wouldn’t make a good government adviser because he is too optimistic Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Statistician and…