COVID-19 Updates
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Grin and bare it: as mask mandates end Japan turns to tutors to relearn how to smile
‘Smile education’ coach Keiko Kawano says more and more people have developed a ‘complex’ about smiling After three years of concealing their mouths behind masks, some Japanese people are turning…
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Plans for UK ‘genomics transformation’ aim to act on lessons of Covid
Ten-year science strategy of UK Health Security Agency will use data to combat infectious diseases faster and more effectively Health officials in the UK have drawn up plans for a…
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Powerlifter who took up sport in lockdown is British junior champion
Harriet Waite, 21, from Kettering, won her category with a record-breaking performance Harriet Waite was one of thousands of people to scramble to buy gym equipment during lockdown in a…
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India poised for hospitality boom as hotel brands such as Hilton, Radisson race to meet surging demand from tourists
The country’s huge and increasingly prosperous population – it recently superseded China as the world’s most populous country – and a surge in foreign tourists will ensure a race among…
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Testing times: workers’ three years on Covid frontline comes to an end as NSW clinics close
Healthcare workers who were ‘here all along when people needed us’ remember the highs and lows of the pandemic Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily…
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Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’
More than ever, the relationship between our two worlds has been disrupted, says the historian. If we don’t mend our ways, will we face even deadlier threats than Covid, Sars…
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US Covid emergency status ends as officials plan ‘new phase of managing’ virus
Vaccines and medication will remain available for free ‘while supplies last’ but most Americans will have to pay for testing Thursday marked the end of Covid-19’s public health emergency status…
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The UK’s Covid-19 inquiry was set up to uncover the truth. So why are bereaved people being silenced? | Saleyha Ahsan
The story of my father’s death from Covid, like thousands of others, deserves a hearing. But some on the right are shouting us down “No more fucking lockdowns – let…
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Coronavirus: South Korea to lift quarantine mandate for Covid-19, end testing for travellers
In lowering the coronavirus alert level from ‘critical’ to plainly ‘alert’ starting on June 1, health authorities will also lift mask mandates in pharmacies and small clinics. Read the original…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority steps up efforts to ease burden on its facilities, says flu cases already past peak
New ward to be opened at centre on Lantau Island, while some stable patients to be transferred to private institutions as part of measures Read the original article at South…