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As Victoria and New South Wales prepare to reopen schools for face-to-face learning, experts who have studied the experiences of other countries are warning that not all lessons have been … Read More
New Zealand’s “Super Saturday” of Covid vaccinations has proved a hit, with more than 2.5% of the population responding to the call to get jabbed on a single day. The … Read More
Russia reported 1,002 deaths from the coronavirus on Saturday, the first time the country’s daily number has passed the 1,000 mark since the start of the pandemic. New Covid-19 cases … Read More
New Zealand’s government is employing a host of increasingly weird and wonderful strategies, gimmicks and sweeteners in a bid to get the last 20% of its eligible population inoculated against … Read More
The United States is wasting millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses even as shortages plague many parts of the world. At least 15m doses were scrapped in the US between March … Read More
The federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has lashed the Andrews government over its roadmap out of lockdown, describing it as “ludicrous” and “unacceptable”, as Victoria recorded nearly 1,993 new Covid cases … Read More
When Xi Jinping promised the world’s movers and shakers in January 2017 that China would champion globalisation, it looked as if the baton of global economic leadership was being picked … Read More
9.49pm BST 21:49 Hello everyone, it’s Caitlin Cassidy here, up and ready to guide you through this weekend’s news after a whopper Friday. NSW premier Dominic Perrottet yesterday made quite … Read More
The announcement was swiftly celebrated by would-be travellers across the globe. Among them was Kent resident Dan Johnson, who told the BBC he had been unable to visit his father … Read More
Compared with some other countries, along with high numbers of Covid cases and deaths the UK has relatively relaxed Covid restrictions, with no mandatory vaccine passports, no social distancing measures, … Read More
It is one of the conundrums of the current phase of the Covid pandemic: the UK has among the highest number of infections across the world and a death toll … Read More
ImageAn employee at an optician shop showing her Green Pass in Rome on Thursday.Credit…Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters Italy set a new bar on Friday for major Western democracies seeking to move beyond … Read More
An independent panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted on Thursday to recommend a booster shot for many recipients of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, and will meet … Read More
The far-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has provoked anger by comparing people who refuse the Covid-19 vaccine to victims of HIV facing stigma. Ms Greene, who represents northwestern Georgia … Read More
You will not have to video yourself, in fact, is the answer. My colleagues over at the Department of Health are going to set this out in more detail. What … Read More
