The Centers for Disease Control advises even vaccinated people to wear masks in public indoor spaces. Also: the British government says fully vaccinated travellers from the US and EU will be allowed to enter England without the need for quarantine.
More than 2,800 cases were registered in the Olympic host city. Hospitals have asked to prepare more beds. Also: World Bank to finance extra Covid jabs for poor nations, and scientists in the UK try to understand why recorded number of cases are fall…
In South Africa, overall infections are said to be down twenty per cent as a result of the country's vaccination programme. Also, Australian police have said anti-lockdown protests will no longer be tolerated after thousands of demonstrators in Sydne…
The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, condemns recent anti-lockdown protests as dangerous and self-defeating. Also: Brazilian demonstrators call for President Bolsonaro to be impeached over his handling of the pandemic, and Olympic athletes…
President Joe Biden says unvaccinated people account for nearly all Covid-related deaths and hospitalisations in the US. Also, thousands of Australians protest against lockdown restrictions. And spectators in Tokyo have attended an Olympic cycling ra…
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Though largely symbolic, the move is part of a transformation of America’s posture in the wider Middle East…
The wrangling over it reflects how self-destructive American politics has become…
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New exposure sites from Victoria mystery case; lockdown rules change as NSW’s Delta outbreak death toll rises to 13, with a record 239 local cases reported; SA records two local cases overnight, both in quarantine. Follow all the day’s news liveW…
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State premiers including Victoria’s Daniel Andrews have criticised the lockdown settings in NSW as too laxFollow today’s live coronavirus newsNSW restrictions; NSW hotspots; border restrictionsVic hotspots; Vic restrictionsVaccine rollout tracker…
The final season of the longest running animated series in the US will air in 2022Arthur, the longest running children’s animated series in the US, will soon come to an end.PBS Kids plans to end the beloved television show after 25 seasons, said an…
Report finds the country’s main grocers, Woolworths and Foodstuffs, make huge profits compared with their international counterpartsNew Zealand’s government will consider breaking up its supermarket duopoly to secure more affordable food prices f…
England and Scotland will ease border controls.
All guests older than 2 will be required to wear masks in indoor spaces, regardless of their vaccination status.
Heavy rains and landslides in Bangladesh have killed at least 11 Rohingya refugees and destroyed entire hillsides of shelters.
In a remarkable act of defiance, thousands of Cubans took to the streets two weeks ago and chanted “We’re not afraid!” Many are now terrified.
The decision comes after state health officials were worried about whether doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine would expire and go to waste.
Japan faces its most serious situation since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the country’s top medical adviser warned on Thursday, urging the government to send a “clearer, stronger message” about growing risks, including to the medical system.Oly…
Hong Kong’s launch of walk-in coronavirus vaccinations for residents aged 70 or above attracted queues early on Thursday despite a hot weather warning.Many of the dozens seen waiting in line at two vaccination centres said they were taking advantag…
As the Delta variant sweeps through Indonesia, causing a record 2,069 deaths on Tuesday, regions outside the worst-hit areas of Jakarta, surrounding Java island and tourist hotspot Bali are now reporting worrying coronavirus spikes.The province of Ea…
Astronomers recently saw something they’d never seen before while peering at a black hole some 800 million light-years away: X-ray light emissions coming from directly behind the black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy.The findings were report…
A geologist in Canada may have discovered fossils of ancient sponges dating back 890 million years, making the potential discovery between 330 and 350 million years older than the oldest undisputed sponge fossils.The fossilised structures found in ro…
July 29, 2021 12:42 PMThe country may incinerate up to almost two-thirds of the household waste it currently produces.
July 29, 2021 12:12 PMReplanting initiatives have sprouted up since the start of the 21st century as urban development goals have shifted.
July 29, 2021 9:03 AMThe provisions would raise an additional US$28 billion from cryptocurrency transactions.
July 29, 2021 8:28 AM"The door of China-US relations, which is already open, cannot and should not be closed," said Mr Qin.
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All 63 track and field athletes are in lockdown in their rooms, with Australian pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall confirmed as a close contact of the US athlete who tested positive.
The first-time ambassador and frequent critic of the West will instantly become Beijing’s most important overseas envoy.
The returned overseas traveller had just completed 14 days quarantine in Brisbane when he landed in Perth and was ordered to spend two days in isolation before being put on a return flight.
There are five finals in the pool today and Australia has medal hopes in every one of them. And Jessica Fox has a shot at another medal in the canoe slalom.
Sydneysiders are facing another month in lockdown, Victorian authorities are concerned about a new mystery case of COVID-19 and Commonwealth emergency payments are back to original JobKeeper levels.
Just half a year after leading SODA’s Series B, SoftBank Ventures Asia is raising its bet on the Tokyo-based sneaker resell platform. The early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group announced today it has returned to lead SODA’s Series C, w…
Just two weeks after reopening its New York and San Francisco offices, social media giant Twitter said Wednesday that it will be closing those offices “immediately.” The decision came “after careful consideration of the CDC’s…
Following the quarterly release of Facebook’s earnings numbers where the company’s CFO takes time to walk analysts through the nitty gritty of the company’s financials, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a moment to zoom out and wax on the co…
INKR is a digital comics platform that crosses cultural and language divides, enabling creators to reach global audiences with its proprietary localization technology. Previously bootstrapped, the company announced today that it has raised $3.1 milli…
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Qin Gang, a trusted aide to Chinese President Xi Jinping, pledged to repair the increasingly testy relationship between Beijing and Washington.
The Biden administration had been expected to spare families from a pandemic policy known as Title 42 that blocks many migrants from entering the U.S. for public health reasons.
The Six Nations of the Grand River community says survivors asked for the probe after unmarked graves were found near former schools in Western Canada.
The U.K. government will allow fully vaccinated travelers from the U.S. and those from most of the European Union to enter England and Scotland without quarantine, hoping for an influx of late-summer tourists.
China’s foreign minister, meeting with the Taliban on Chinese soil, urged the group to distance itself from terrorist groups and take steps to establish peace in Afghanistan.
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In a bid to protect its investments in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells, the carmaker is lobbying against the transition to electric vehicles.
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An extraordinary drought in the West, plus dry lakes and reservoirs, mean there will be less water for farms, hydroelectric energy, and home users.
On 18 February 2021, the National IHR Focal Point for the Russian Federation notified WHO of detection of avian influenza A(H5N8) in seven human clinical specimens. These are the first reported detection of avian influenza A(H5N8) in humans. Positive…
On 14 February 2021, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea informed WHO of a cluster of Ebola Virus…
Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been reported in Kenya in humans in Isiolo and Mandera counties and in…
On 7 February 2021, the Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the laboratory confirmation of one case in North Kivu Province. The case was an adult female living in Biena He…
On 13 January, 2021, a child under 18 years of age in Wisconsin developed respiratory disease. A respiratory specimen was collected on 14 January. Real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing conducted at the Wisconsin S…
