COVID-19 Updates
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Fear on the ward: UK mothers threatened with social services for refusing maternity care
Women who turn down advice from health service staff say they are being coerced with threats of referrals to agencies and police Pregnant women and new mothers are being referred…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong looking to procure world’s first Covid-19 pill
Hong Kong is in the process of securing the world’s first Covid-19 pill, which the manufacturers claim can cut hospitalisations and deaths by half.Sources told the Post that health authorities…
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Hong Kong’s ‘cruises to nowhere’ keeping laid-off tourism, service workers afloat with new jobs
Hong Kong’s cruises to nowhere have cast a lifeline to tourism and service industry workers who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.Genting Cruise Lines, which runs the Genting Dream…
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Coronavirus: Singapore reviews Covid-19 rules; Malaysia in talks to buy Merck’s experimental pills
Singapore on Saturday said it was reviewing its Covid-19 protocols, including the testing of asymptomatic patients, amid growing calls by some doctors to shelve the city state’s aggressive testing regime.“As…
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Coronavirus: Pfizer booster may better protect than third CoronaVac shot, finds Turkish study
For people fully immunised with Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine, adding a Pfizer/BioNTech booster shot may yield greater protection than a third Sinovac dose, new research from Turkey suggests.Health care workers…
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US eclipses 700,000 coronavirus deaths as Delta variant hits unvaccinated Americans hard
The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone on Friday, eclipsing 700,000 deaths from Covid-19 just as the surge from the Delta variant is starting to slow down and…
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China orders citizens engaged in illegal activities in Myanmar to come home to face the music – but Covid-19 controls leave them stuck in limbo
More than 10,000 Chinese nationals who entered Myanmar illegally are now stuck in the country due to Covid-19 controls as the authorities warn their border defences are facing unprecedented pressures.The…
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Coronavirus live: one in 20 secondary school pupils in England had Covid last week; India to quarantine UK arrivals
Figures on English schools come as infection levels remain high in UK; India measures in response to requirements imposed on Indians visiting UK Covid antiviral pill halves hospitalisations and deaths,…
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Does Victoria’s new vaccine mandate apply to you and when is the deadline for getting the jab?
Andrews government is requiring all authorised employees to get vaccinated in an effort to drive down Covid cases ahead of the state’s reopening. Here’s what it means Vic hotspots; Vic…