COVID-19 Updates
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Scientist behind AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine says booster shots may be unnecessary
Booster shots to extend the protection of Covid-19 vaccines may be unnecessary for many people, a leading scientist behind the AstraZeneca vaccine said on Friday.Oxford University Professor Sarah Gilbert told…
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A new planning reform could mean the death of England’s high streets | Simon Jenkins
Robert Jenrick’s madcap policy will hand shops over to developers motivated by profit, not community The summer of 2021 may be remembered for Covid and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. But…
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‘Critical period’, but Singapore ‘not reversing course’ on treating Covid-19 as endemic as cases soar
Singapore on Friday said the country was entering a “critical period” amid a soaring increase in Covid-19 infections, with the city state registering 568 new cases on Friday – up…
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Coronavirus: Australia’s daily cases top 1,900; Vietnam to trial reopening Phu Quoc island to tourists
Australia’s daily coronavirus cases topped 1,900 for the first time on Friday, as the Delta outbreak continued to gain ground in locked-down Sydney and Melbourne.The country is in the grip…
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Gladys Berejiklian cuts her daily press conference just as NSW Covid cases peak – that is a dereliction of duty | Anne Davies
The government should be held accountable for the experiment it is embarking on. It will now simply tell us what it thinks we need to know – but that’s just…
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Hong Kong’s Indonesian workers fear data security, fake vaccination record scandals will fuel distrust at the border
Concerns are growing among Indonesian migrant workers that their Covid-19 vaccine certificates will not be accepted by some destinations due to a lack of trust in the country’s immunisation programme.With…
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Freedom or folly: experts wade in on the NSW roadmap out of Covid lockdown | Catherine Bennett, Bill Bowtell, Alexandra Martiniuk and Tony Blakely
Opening up with a 70% vaccination rate is risky, so caution is key, say some of Australia’s most prominent disease experts Follow our Covid live blog for the latest updates…
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Coronavirus: Joe Biden expands US vaccine requirements in bid to rein in Covid-19
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Adam Cancryn and David Lim on politico.com on September 9, 2021.US President Joe Biden on…
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The battle for Britain’s skies takes a new twist pitting easyJet against Wizz Air
Analysis: airline fends off Hungarian interloper in increasingly febrile fight over Gatwick slots The battle for the post-pandemic holiday skies took a fresh twist yesterday, as easyJet launched a £1.2bn…
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Blow to US gun control efforts as Biden withdraws David Chipman’s ATF nomination– live
NRA and Republicans launched campaign to block nomination Biden to mandate Covid vaccinations for all federal workers – reports Cheney to Trump’s endorsement of primary rival: ‘Bring it’ Inside an…