COVID-19 Updates
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The Djokovic circus allows us to see all our Covid prejudices being played out | Emma John
With its breadth of opinions, the tennis locker room is society in miniature Stefanos Tsitsipas learned to listen to Covid science the hard way. Not the really hard way, of…
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While Boris Johnson partied in the sun, I sweated in PPE, saving lives
Downing Street’s lockdown parties were a world away from life as a frontline doctor in the pandemic Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Forget Annabel’s – the…
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North Korean train makes first crossing into China since Covid border lockdown
Freight train marks first time during pandemic that North Korea is known to have opened land border A North Korean cargo train has reportedly pulled into a Chinese border town…
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Australia Covid update: Greg Hunt says Omicron may be peaking as NSW warned ‘difficult three weeks’ ahead
New South Wales recorded another 20 Covid-related deaths, while 13 people died with Covid in Victoria, three in Queensland and two in the ACT Follow our Australia news live blog…
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North Korean train makes rare arrival in China during border lockdown: report
A North Korean cargo train pulled into a Chinese border town on Sunday, in what could be one of the first confirmed crossings since anti-coronavirus border lockdowns began, South Korea’s…
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Covid-19 in China: Beijing and Tianjin racing to contain Omicron spread ahead of Lunar New Year and Winter Olympics
The northern city of Tianjin and Chinese capital Beijing are battling to contain the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and bring it under control ahead of the Lunar…
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Sick with Covid-19, Hong Kong students in UK learn that ‘living with the virus’ means nobody cares, rules don’t matter
Hong Kong student Kok Suen-tung was in a holiday state of mind when she felt unwell, tested herself and found out she had Covid-19 last month.The final-year social policy student…
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Covid: Iran reports first deaths from Omicron; UK records 81,713 cases and 287 deaths – as it happened
Three people are reported to have died from the variant; the seven-day total for UK deaths was up 45% on the week before Thousands protest in Vienna against mandatory vaccination…
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Expect more worrisome Covid-19 variants after Omicron: scientists
Scientists warn that Omicron’s whirlwind advance practically ensures it will not be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.Every infection provides a chance for the virus to…