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[Link] Protests break out at Covid-hit iPhone factory in China
Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com
Large-scale protests broke out at Foxconn’s vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, central China, images circulating on Weibo and Twitter appeared to show.
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[Link] Have you asked for an Airbnb refund during COVID? Ross was refused one – and then told to break lockdown
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
So when they booked a night at a Victorian country home for a getaway with friends, the Melbourne-based couple didn't pay too much attention to their Airbnb host's cancellation policy.
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[Link] 'There have been rumours': Why the next two years could decide the fate of Kim Jong Un
Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The North Korean side of the border is unkempt, as the maintenance crews won't risk coming into close contact with the south. South Korea is now averaging about 4,000 cases a day. More worrying is the acute spike in serious cases.
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[Link] The ‘backbone’ of regional Australia under strain as volunteer groups suffer pandemic burnout
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The cumulative effect of natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic has increased fatigue and stress among volunteers in regional Australia, making it harder for them to provide essential support within the community, a study has found.
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[Link] Omicron 'may already be here in Australia'. Experts say there's more we can do to stop COVID
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Just weeks after Australia declared it was opening its borders to the world, some restrictions have been reimposed in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, first detected in South Africa.
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[Link] The Sicilian town where the Covid vaccination rate hit 104%
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
While European governments weigh up new mandates and measures to boost the uptake of Covid jabs there is on the slopes of Sicily’s Monte delle Rose a village with a vaccination rate that defies mathematics: 104%.
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[Link] WHO Names New Variant Of Concern ‘Omicron,’ U.S. Issues Travel Ban
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. and Canada are banning and restricting travel from southern Africa after the World Health Organization named a new, potentially more infectious COVID-19 variant that’s been spreading in the region. On Friday the WHO announced the new B.1.1.
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[Link] SA Health tells hospitals to take in patients quickly to avoid ramping in 'gaslighting' move
Read: 26/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Health has issued a direction ordering the state's hospitals to ensure no ambulance transfers exceed one hour. The health system has been dealing with an ongoing ramping crisis with some patients spending five hours in the back of an ambulance earlier this week.
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[Link] Dozens arrested in Netherlands in second night of Covid protests
Read: 21/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five police officers have been injured and at least 40 people arrested in a second night of violence in the Netherlands, as tougher Covid-19 restrictions to curb the resurgent pandemic led to angry protests in several European countries.
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[Link] ‘We got it wrong’: SA Health boss concedes failures on border exemptions
Read: 17/11/2021 indaily.com.au
Appearing before state parliament’s budget and finance committee this morning, SA Health CEO Dr Chris McGowan conceded SA Health was not initially prepared for the volume of South Australians wanting to come home.
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[Link] Woman who trespassed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort deported to China
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Chinese businesswoman convicted of trespassing at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents has been deported, federal authorities said, more than two years after serving her sentence.
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[Link] Bizarre Images of New Zealand Protesters Wearing Trump Masks Evoke Capitol Riot
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of anti-vaccine mandate protestors gathered in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington on Tuesday, Nov. 9, blocking roads and rallying outside of the country’s Parliament to denounce state-enforced COVID-19 vaccination requirements and government lockdowns.
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[Link] North Dakota Republican forced to skip anti-vaccination rally after getting Covid
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A North Dakota Republican who organized a rally to oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates said he would not attend the event – because he was infected with Covid-19.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] China's COVID death rate is curiously low. An anonymous Beijing doctor told us how they’re doing it
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
If accurate, the official figures highlight the benefits of the world's strictest zero-tolerance policy, which involved keeping borders closed and moving quickly to suppress small outbreaks.
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[Link] Police try to identify flare-wielding protesters
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are trying to identify three people involved in the setting off of flares at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Saturday.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] Uber drivers tell Senate inquiry of abuse, false complaints and suspensions during Covid
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Uber drivers in Sydney and Melbourne have been temporarily suspended from the service for asking customers to wear face masks in their cars, a Senate committee has been told.
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[Link] New Zealand gang leaders unite to urge community to get Covid shots
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Seven New Zealand gang leaders, representing four of the countries most well-known street gangs, have joined forces in a video urging their communities to get vaccinated, in a concept that was conjured up by a government minister.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Brazil's Bolsonaro May Face ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charge Over COVID
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
A panel of Brazilian lawmakers recommended Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” due to his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil has been one of the world’s most hard hit countries with over 600,000 dead since the pandemic began.
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[Link] Illegal House Party During NZ Lockdown Pisses Off Just About Everyone
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
As Auckland approaches its eleventh consecutive week of lockdown, a viral house party filled with dry humping Instagram models has caused outrage.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] Two Dead After 12 Inmates Tried to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two prison inmates died and ten others were hospitalised in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo after they ingested hand sanitiser to get drunk, prompting a ban on alcohol-based sanitising products in all prisons across the country, according to the Department of Prisons.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Man spared jail after assaulting attendant on flight from Melbourne to Adelaide
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Timothy Kenneth Hawkes, 29, was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in May after South Australian authorities announced the state's border was closing to Victoria due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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[Link] Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal.
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[Link] Man Allegedly Killed Pharmacist Brother to Stop Him Giving COVID Vaccines
Read: 7/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jeffrey Burnham, 46, is accused of stabbing to death 83-year-old family friend Rebecca Reynolds in Cumberland, Maryland and stealing her car on Sept. 29.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] ‘The only way’: Australians stranded in New Zealand charter private jets to get home
Read: 28/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australians desperate to get home from New Zealand are going to extreme lengths to do so, forking out tens of thousands of dollars to charter private jets.
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[Link] Gang Members Busted Trying to Smuggle a Carload of KFC Into a Locked Down City
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand police were patrolling the backstreets just south of Auckland on Sunday night when they saw it: a “suspicious looking” car travelling down a gravel road near the city’s southern border.
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[Link] Brazil’s Health Minister Flipped Off New York Protesters—Then Tested Positive for COVID
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Marcelo Queiroga is the fourth health minister to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and, some said, the most serious. But his behavior on a trip to New York this week was anything but serious.
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[Link] Alabama Had More Deaths Than Births Last Year Because of COVID-19
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. More people died in Alabama than were born there in 2020, a grim reminder of the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as an unprecedented crisis in the state’s history.
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[Link] Two week shutdown of construction industry expected following violent Melbourne protests
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Victorian government is expected to forcibly shutdown all construction sites across the state in response to violent protests outside the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union's Melbourne office today.
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[Link] Texas couple denied service at restaurant for breaking ‘no mask’ rule
Read: 20/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Natalie Wester spoke to CBS DFW, a local TV station, about her experience with her husband, Jose, and a few friends. Last week, she said, the Westers went to Hang Time, a bar and restaurant in Rowlett, 20 miles outside Dallas, for a rare outing.
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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.
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[Link] NSW business slams Australia Post’s parcel pause after $60k spend on express fees
Read: 6/9/2021 www.news.com.au
A NSW business has slammed Australia Post over a sudden announcement to pause their parcel post collection service after shelling out nearly $60,000 for express post and claiming some parcels took up to 13 days to arrive.
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[Link] Scott Morrison granted Covid lockdown exemption to visit Sydney for Father’s Day weekend
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison travelled to Sydney over the Father’s Day weekend and returned to Canberra on Monday after receiving an exemption from ACT Health.
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[Link] Anti-Maskers Exposed Themselves to COVID at Their Own Protest
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Everyone who attended an August 16 city council meeting in Independence, Missouri, where a proposed school mask mandate was voted down has potentially been exposed to COVID, the city said in a tweet Monday.
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[Link] The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was a Total COVID Disaster—Again
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It turns out that when hundreds of thousands of people get together during a global pandemic, hospitals are going to suffer the consequences. And South Dakota is learning that for the second year in a row.
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[Link] Thailand develops robotic system to up Covid vaccine doses
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Researchers in Thailand have developed a machine to draw out Covid-19 vaccine doses more efficiently and optimise lower-than-expected supplies as the country struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.
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[Link] Costco 'caught out' by COVID, regrets decision to open new store
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Boolaroo warehouse at Lake Macquarie was set to open tomorrow after eight months of preparation, but is now at the centre of a COVID cluster.
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[Link] NSW man who escaped SA hotel quarantine to go to pub sentenced to 14 days in prison
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Paul McElhinney, 33, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a COVID-19 direction. McElhinney, who lives in Sydney, was quarantining at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Adelaide's CBD after returning from his father's funeral in Scotland.
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[Link] The FDA Just Fully Approved Pfizer's COVID Vaccine
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The landmark moment could convince some vaccine-hesitant people to get their shot—and may foreshadow a jump in new vaccine mandates to battle the pandemic. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] NSW police fine 600 people on first day of Covid crackdown blitz
Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales police issued nearly 600 infringement notices to people flouting tough new health orders on the first day of a three-week crackdown designed to get the state’s escalating Covid crisis under control.
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[Link] Live: Virus has breached St George hospital cancer ward, NSW Health confirms
Read: 17/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
NSW Health authorities have confirmed that several patients and staff members from St George Hospital's oncology ward have tested positive to coronavirus.
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[Link] It’s Back to School in the Apocalypse, and Parents Are Losing Their Minds
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s back-to-school season during the apocalypse, and Americans are celebrating by losing their minds.
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[Link] Police arrest dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Victorian police arrested dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD last night. Officers appeared to outnumber a handful of protesters who came into the city's centre to protest hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a seven-day extension to the city's lockdown.
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[Link] Ron DeSantis Is Pretending Not to Know Florida Needs Emergency Ventilators
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Things have gotten so bad that this week, multiple outlets have reported that the federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators to the state to help fight the surge. But Florida Gov.
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[Link] Victorian couple desperate to return from NSW hear nothing a week after applying for Covid travel pass
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Victorians Carla Styles and Stuart Annand were just past the Queensland border, near Goondiwindi, when their mad scramble home began to unravel.
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[Link] Grieving family of man who died after getting COVID at Liverpool Hospital want more transparency
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The grieving family of an 80-year-old man who is among five deaths linked to a COVID-19 cluster at a hospital in south-west Sydney, say they have a right to know what's going on at the facility.
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[Link] Near-miss was Delta strain, as Tasmanian COVID closures continue
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deputy Director of Public Health, Julie Graham, said it did not take very long to identify everyone that came into contact with the man, who did not have a valid G2G (Good-to-Go) pass.
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[Link] Wuhan residents report 'post-traumatic stress' as 40 Chinese cities battle COVID outbreaks
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
After months of China having COVID-19 cases relatively under control, the coronavirus has returned to the pandemic's original epicentre of Wuhan.
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[Link] A woman who refused to check in at a Canberra store claims to be a 'sovereign state'
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Elvira Shagabuddinova, who told the court her last name was actually Useinova, is facing three charges, including trespass and failing to comply with a health direction without a reasonable excuse.
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[Link] Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders.
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[Link] How was Tasmania's new COVID case allowed into the state?
Read: 7/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Tasmania has recorded its first COVID case in hotel quarantine in 238 days. It means potentially dozens of northern Tasmanians have been forced into self-isolation and questions are being asked about how he came to be in Tasmania in the first place.
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[Link] As paramedics in south-west Sydney we are pushed beyond exhaustion – and into a dystopian world
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
It’s been nearly 18 months since I wrote about Covid-19 first hitting our shores and spreading to our suburbs. The transmissibility and virulence of the Delta strain has pushed the ambulance service beyond the brink of exhaustion.
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[Link] ‘The Pied Piper leading us off a cliff’: Florida governor condemned as Covid surges
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Florida governor Ron DeSantis earned a new moniker this week as the resurgent coronavirus continued to wreak havoc on his state: the “Pied Piper of Covid-19, leading everybody off a cliff”.
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[Link] Hundreds protest against Victorian COVID lockdown, leading to clashes with police
Read: 6/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Hundreds of protesters have taken to Melbourne's streets hours after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a statewide lockdown from 8:00pm on Thursday.
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[Link] Extroverted, self-centred men less likely to comply with Covid restrictions, study suggests
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
People who do not comply with Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are mostly male, more extroverted and more likely to put their own self-interests above those of others, suggests a new study of behaviours internationally.
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[Link] China reports highest number of Covid cases since January
Read: 21/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
China has reported the highest daily tally of new confirmed Covid-19 cases since January, driven by a surge in imported infections in southwestern Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar.
[Link] All fans banned from Tokyo Olympics as COVID cases rise, delta spreads
Read: 8/7/2021 arstechnica.com
Both foreign and local sports fans are now barred from attending Tokyo-area Olympic events as COVID-19 cases tick up in the city and the highly transmissible delta variant continues to spread.
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[Link] Sydney's coronavirus outbreak is moving from east to west and starting to look like Melbourne's second wave
Read: 8/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Authorities are bracing for coronavirus cases to potentially grow in areas of Sydney where it may have an easier time spreading. The race is on to nip increasing numbers of cases in Western Sydney in the bud, with failure to do so likely to prolong this outbreak.
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