COVID-19 Updates
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NSW Covid restrictions: re-opening rules for Sydney, regional NSW, freedoms for vaccinated people explained
Here’s what we know about the next two stages of reopening in New South Wales, and what you can and can’t do Follow our Covid live blog for the latest…
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GPs have become the new fall guys for government failures | Gaby Hinsliff
The Tory press are on the warpath, followed by Sajid Javid. Clapping for carers suddenly feels a long time ago The corridors of my once bustling GP’s surgery were eerily…
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How to live with Covid? Vaccinate, open gradually and keep some public health measures | Alexandra Martiniuk
Countries doing ‘well’ have phased re-openings with high vaccination rates, including in teens. Australia should take note Follow our Covid live blog for the latest updates Get our free news…
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‘He treated us like his family’: helper grieves loss of Singapore doctor Raymond Yuen who paid for her, child’s studies
The former domestic worker of the late Dr Raymond Yuen, who died after being sickened by Covid-19, still cannot believe he is gone and told of how the doctor paid for…
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Coronavirus: Philippines lifts quarantine for fully vaccinated travellers from China, dozens of other nations
Fully vaccinated foreign nationals from dozens of countries and jurisdictions on the Philippines’ “green list” will no longer be required to undergo facility-based quarantine, the government said, provided they have…
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‘Bangkok’s Hamptons’: why Thailand’s elite are buying beach properties in Hua Hin
Worn out by coronavirus restrictions, pollution and traffic gridlock, wealthy Bangkok residents are buying up bolt-holes in the southern beach retreat of Hua Hin as the pandemic sparks a lifestyle…
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FDA expert panel endorses Moderna vaccine booster shot – US politics live
FDA advisory panel endorses half-dose booster for at-risk adults Committee makes first moves to hold Bannon in criminal contempt Biden: Covid case rates, hospitalizations and deaths down across US Sign…
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Australia Covid live news update: Victoria records 2,179 cases; NSW regional travel delayed as state records 399 cases; ACT’s ‘freedom day’
Victoria records 2,179 local cases and six deaths; NSW records 399 local cases and four deaths; nine-week ACT lockdown lifts; Victoria’s authorised workers to meet first vaccine deadline; travel between…
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Covid live: UK reports 45,066 new cases, highest since mid-July; Russia daily cases pass 30,000 for first time
Highest daily cases in UK since mid-July with a further 157 Covid-linked deaths; Russia registers 31,299 new cases in one day Italy braced for unrest as Covid pass becomes mandatory…
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Travellers to England able to take lateral flow Covid tests from 24 October
Requirements for a PCR test will be dropped for vaccinated people arriving from non-red list countries Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Fully vaccinated international passengers arriving…