COVID-19 Updates
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Winter Olympics-related Covid-19 cases tick up as more teams arrive in China
Three dozen more cases of Covid-19 have been detected among Olympic Games-related personnel in China, seven of them within the event’s “closed loop”, organisers said on Saturday.The Beijing Winter Olympics…
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Coronavirus: Indonesia bracing for third wave as Omicron spreads; New Zealand PM Ardern is self isolating
Indonesia is bracing for a third wave of Covid-19 infections as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives a surge in new cases, health authorities and experts said Saturday.The country reported…
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Beijing Winter Olympics reports jump in daily Covid cases
Number of infections among athletes and team officials rises by 19 as Games organisers warn of more cases in coming days China has reported a jump in Covid cases among…
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Covid live: lung abnormalities in long Covid patients; 36 new Winter Olympics cases
Downing Street ‘partygate’ report expected imminently; Argentinian singer-songwriter dies from Covid Long Covid study finds abnormality in lungs on scans See all our coronavirus coverage In the UK, a heavily…
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Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young’s Spotify protest over anti-vax content
Mitchell calls for her music to be removed from platform too, citing ‘irresponsible people spreading lies’ In an act of solidarity between two veteran rock stars with a shared history…
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Diego Verdaguer, popular Mexican-Argentinian singer, dies of Covid
Star who racked up almost 50m sales dies of coronavirus complications at age of 70 The Mexican-Argentinian singer-songwriter Diego Verdaguer, whose romantic hits such as Corazón de Papel, Yo te…
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Singer Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in boycotting Spotify over Covid-19 ‘lies’
Singer Joni Mitchell says she is pulling her music from Spotify over “lies” on the streaming service about Covid-19, just days after fellow musical titan Neil Young did the same.In…
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NSW has deadliest day of pandemic; widespread flooding causes damage – as it happened
NSW records 49 Covid deaths, Victoria 31, Queensland 12 and South Australia five. This blog is now closed Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Labor’s lone…
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How the UK government lost £4.9bn to Covid loan fraud
The race to fund the lockdown economy ensured speed trumped due diligence, leaving the taxpayer wide open to fraud In the final days of April 2020, bankers and Treasury officials…
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Loss-making Hongkong Post braces for more challenges amid Covid-19 restrictions, pins hopes on cross-border e-commerce
Hong Kong’s struggling postal service is bracing itself for more challenges ahead as airfreight restrictions mount amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is banking its future on cross-border e-commerce.Hongkong Post…