COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Australia reopening to skilled workers, Japanese and South Koreans
Australia on Monday said it would again welcome foreign students and skilled workers from next month, easing some of the world’s most stringent pandemic travel restrictions.Twenty months after Australia slammed…
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Coronavirus: tighten airport measures, Beijing delegation urges Hong Kong in inspection visit over border reopening
Hong Kong may need to step up infection-control measures at its international airport, including reviewing quarantine exemption arrangements for aircrew, mainland Chinese experts inspecting the city’s Covid-19 containment efforts have…
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Australia politics live update: Morrison confirms special visa holders can enter; hundreds leave NT public service over vaccine mandate
International border changes announced; hundreds leave NT public service over vaccine mandate; Katherine lockdown extended; Question time begins in Canberra; Labor and Coalition scrap over PM’s response to protesters’ threats;…
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One Nation anti-vaccine mandate bill rejected despite support from five Coalition senators
Scott Morrison plays down government division, saying Liberal and National parties are ‘not run as an autocracy’ Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing One Nation’s anti-Covid…
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Quarantine in China: why so long and does science back it up?
China has one of the world’s longest Covid-19 quarantine periods as part of its zero-Covid policy, which it has credited for its success in keeping the death toll from the…
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Covid live: UK reports 40,004 new cases and 61 new deaths; Brussels protest turns violent
Latest updates: tens of thousands of people march in Belgian capital against Covid measure; UK health secretary says vaccination must be voluntary Booster jabs could be extended to all UK…
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Coronavirus: third night of violence in Guadeloupe as France sends in police special forces
The French overseas territory of Guadeloupe was hit by a third night of looting and rioting amid protests against Covid-19 measures, with gunmen shooting at police and firefighters, the authorities…
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Coronavirus: violence erupts in Brussels against new Covid-19 measures
Violence broke out at a protest against anti-Covid measures in Brussels on Sunday, in which police said tens of thousands of people took part.The march began peacefully but police later…
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Coronavirus: Vladimir Putin receives third dose of vaccine as Russia struggles with fresh wave
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he had received a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, as the country struggles with a fresh wave of the virus.“I had it…
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Violence in Belgium and Netherlands as Covid protests erupt across Europe
Anger at government restrictions spreads to Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark and Croatia Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Violence erupted at demonstrations in Belgium and the Netherlands…