COVID-19 Updates
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Biden addresses pandemic: ‘We’re going to be able to control this’ – as it happened
Biden visits Colorado to meet Marshall fire victims Federal Covid vaccination requirement challenged in supreme court True number of US Covid deaths probably undercounted, experts say Sign up to receive…
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Byron Bay Covid patients left behind curtains as hospital ‘crippled’ by depleted resources
Lack of isolation rooms left one patient waiting almost two days to be moved to the region’s designated coronavirus facility Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates…
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Omicron: not such a happy birthday in end for ‘party animal’ Witman Hung and 170 guests sent to Hong Kong quarantine camp
If there is one thing Witman Hung Wai-man enjoys, according to those who know him well, it is having a big birthday bash with many guests, where drinks flow, karaoke…
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US woman charged after ‘isolating’ coronavirus-positive son in car boot
A US woman was charged after authorities allege she placed her 13-year-old son in the boot of her car in an attempt to isolate him after he had tested positive…
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Tale of two vaccines: AstraZeneca’s road to success offers lessons for Hong Kong’s biotech ambitions
Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, vaccine development is a race against time in which we all have a stake.The development time for vaccines from bench to bedside is normally 10…
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Rapid at-home Covid tests going for $80 in US amid the Omicron surge
Some reports have even shown vendors charging as much as $250 as people are being urged to report such price gouging With at-home Covid tests running scarce during the Omicron…
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Fourth Covid jab not yet needed, JCVI says, as booster protecting older people
Latest figures show protection against hospitalisation for over-65s at 90% three months after third jab Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A fourth Covid vaccine shot is…
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London’s Marble Arch Mound attraction to close this weekend
25m-high hill had ‘teething problems’, an initially negative reaction and cost almost double its budget of £3.3m Marble Arch Mound, the scaffolding-and-turf urban peak that stood 25m tall, came with…
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US supreme court conservatives appear skeptical of workplace vaccine rule
Omicron surge appears to leave justices’ doubts about Biden administration’s vaccine-or-testing requirement undimmed The supreme court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical on Friday of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a…