COVID-19 Updates
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Omicron drives Covid surge but New York a long way from pandemic’s early days
America’s biggest city is seeing another winter spike, but with good vaccines and a new message many residents say this wave feels different In the spring of 2020, Hart Island,…
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Chinese city of Tianjin to test 14 million people after Covid outbreak
The port near Beijing began mass testing after 20 children and adults tested positive, including at least two with Omicron Tianjin, a major Chinese port city near the capital Beijing,…
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More than 99,000 new cases nationwide on NSW’s deadliest day of pandemic
NSW records 30,062 new Covid cases and 16 deaths; Victoria reports 44,155 cases and four deaths; Queensland records 18,000 cases, South Australia 4,506 cases and one death, Tasmania 1,406 cases,…
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Omicron: ramp up Hong Kong social-distancing rules if more unlinked Covid-19 cases surface, government pandemic adviser urges, while calling on Cathay Pacific to plug aircrew ‘loophole’
Hong Kong authorities must consider tougher social-distancing measures if more untraceable coronavirus cases surface, a top government pandemic adviser has warned, while also urging the city’s flag carrier to plug…
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‘Biggest test’: Queensland delays school year by two weeks due to Omicron outbreak
Premier doesn’t want children returning to classrooms until after peak of Covid cases expected end of January or early February The start of the Queensland school year has been delayed…
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NSW and Queensland allow close contacts of Covid cases to work as states face food shortages
‘Critical’ or ‘essential’ workers who are asymptomatic no longer required to self-isolate if job is essential for growing, manufacturing or transporting food Follow the all the latest news on our…
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Coronavirus: US forces in Japan confined to bases to stem spread of Covid-19
Japan and the United States have agreed that US forces stationed in Japan will not leave their bases except for essential reasons in an effort to stem the spread of…
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Baktash Abtin, dissident Iranian poet, dies of Covid on prison furlough
Abtin’s death was ‘aided and abetted’ by the Iran’s government, says US human rights group PEN America The dissident Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died of Covid-19 in…
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Coronavirus live – as it happened: UK passes 150,000 officially recorded Covid deaths; Sweden’s crown princess tests positive
Latest developments as Philippines reports record 26,458 cases and scientist says Omicron variant could become endemic in UK Requiring PCR tests for isolation funds in UK may fail legal test’…
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Djokovic pictured maskless at public event one day after positive Covid test
Positive test used as basis of medical exemption into Australia Craig Tiley privately praises staff for ‘unbelievable job’ Novak Djokovic faced fresh controversy over his attempt to enter Australia to…