COVID-19 Updates
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Hong Kong retail sales rise 7.3 per cent in September as e-voucher scheme boosts consumer confidence
Hong Kong’s retail sales in September shot up 7.3 per cent year on year, continuing an upwards trajectory fuelled by a HK$36 billion (US$4.6 billion) digital voucher scheme aimed at…
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Zero Covid still less costly than living with it, China’s top expert Zhong Nanshan says
China’s top respiratory diseases expert has defended the country’s zero-Covid strategy against scrutiny from some public health experts, saying it was still less costly than living with the disease and…
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Jacinda Ardern ends press conference after being heckled over Covid vaccines – video
The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, abruptly halted a media conference after being heckled by at least two people who appeared to be anti-vaxxers. One man claiming to be…
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Can Singapore’s health care system cope with its biggest surge in Covid-19 infections?
Singapore’s daily Covid-19 numbers have been hitting new highs in recent weeks, crossing the 5,000 mark for the first time last Wednesday.The Health Ministry described this as an “unusual surge”…
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Who to blame as world tops 5 million Covid-19 deaths?
More than 5 million people worldwide have died from Covid-19 less than two years after the novel pathogen was first documented, despite the arrival of vaccines that have slashed fatality…
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Chinese drug makers want to produce US Covid-19 pill for poorer nations
Chinese firms have expressed an interest in producing an experimental Covid-19 drug developed by US pharmaceutical companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics – under a global programme for their distribution in…
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Australia news live: NSW brings forward Covid freedoms; Morrison addresses Cop26; Turnbull says PM should apologise to French president
NSW brings forward freedoms for vaccinated people to Monday; Victoria’s Covid numbers finally drop below 1,000; NSW records 173 cases and four deaths; Malcolm Turnbull says Scott Morrison should apologise…
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NSW forced to correct thousands of debt recovery letters for hotel quarantine
Revenue NSW will resend more than 44,000 invoices to returned travellers after they cite nonexistent law Follow our live blog for the latest updates Vaccine rollout tracker; Cases and data…
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Coronavirus live news: global Covid death toll hits 5m; Greece reports highest infections total
US, Brazil, India, Mexico and UK account for over half of deaths in Johns Hopkins University tally Russian army may be called on to build field hospitals Australia opens borders…