COVID-19 Updates
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WPP revenues back to pre-Covid levels as advertising rebounds
Recovery to pre-pandemic levels at world’s biggest ad group has come a year earlier than predicted WPP, the world’s biggest advertising group, has grown its revenues back to pre-pandemic levels…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong tourism industry to receive HK$377 million relief package to tide it over through border closures
Hong Kong’s beleaguered tourism industry will receive HK$377 million (US$48 million) in aid to help operators cope with the collapse in demand during the Covid-19 pandemic.Travel agents, tour guides, coach…
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Coronavirus: China tries to contain Delta outbreak as ‘zero tolerance’ approach is tested
China reported another 62 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Thursday as the highly transmissible Delta variant continues to spread and tens of millions of people are tested across the country.While…
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‘The blood of Jesus is my vaccine’: how a fringe group of Christians has hijacked faith, undermining the fight against Covid-19
“The blood of Jesus is my vaccine” read one of the signs at a recent protest against lockdown regulations in the Australian city of Sydney. While our tendency might be…
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The Delta variant and ‘breakthrough’ infections: should Americans be worried?
Experts say so-called breakthrough cases remain rare, and deaths among vaccinated people are ‘effectively zero’ The Delta variant caused an inflection point in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic in…
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Coronavirus Hong Kong: returnees from mainland China ‘should get hotel quarantine’; city hits first-jab vaccine milestone of 50 per cent
Residents returning to Hong Kong from mainland Chinese cities with Covid-19 outbreaks should be isolated in hotels – not their homes – health experts and a pro-establishment lawmaker said on…
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Vaccine passports look inevitable, so what rights do New Zealanders have? | Claire Breen
Analysis: Proof of vaccination is nothing new and any requirement that people use a ‘health pass’ will involve balancing various rights With greater numbers of people being vaccinated and countries…
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Coronavirus: China scientist calls for ‘continuity’ in next phase of WHO origins hunt
A top scientist who led China’s team during the WHO investigation into the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan said the same experts should be involved in the next phase of…
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Coronavirus: Malaysia to stop using daily cases to determine easing of curbs; Manila sees vaccine rush ahead of lockdown
Malaysia will no longer use the number of recorded daily Covid-19 infections as a metric to ease curbs for states once they enter the second phase of the national recovery…
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Global funds are buying China’s best-performing bonds at a record pace as benchmark yields stand out in a world of cheap money
Global funds accelerated the purchases of Chinese government debt, the best-performing bonds in the world this year, as expectations of policy easing put China ahead of other nations that are…