Fast-track scheme is aimed at those whose jobs put them at risk in pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrance has granted citizenship to more than 12,000 frontline workers whose jobs put them at risk during the Covid pan…
Inside an Oregon hospital amid an ‘absolutely stunning’ Covid surge
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Unvaccinated health and care workers in England could be redeployed
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Covid inequalities are chance for unions – TUC’s Frances O’Grady
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Idaho enacts ‘crisis standards of care’ protocol to battle worsening Covid
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PMQs: Boris Johnson to face Keir Starmer before debate on tax rise for health and social care – live
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Coronavirus live: UK health secretary ‘not considering’ October firebreak; New Zealand rethinks opening borders
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止まらないデルタ株とワクチン接種の義務化、偽の接種証明書の登場：新型コロナウイルスと世界のいま（8月）
ワクチンを接種後に新型コロナウイルスに感染する「ブレイクスルー感染」が増えた8月。感染拡大を少しでも抑えるため、世界ではワクチンの3回目接種やワクチン接種の義務化を強行する動きも見られている。この1カ月の新型コロナウイルスに関する動きを、これらの最新情報と共に振り返る。
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Scott Morrison got to see his kids on Father’s Day and everyone is furious at him all the time now | First Dog on the Moon
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‘Hunger was something we read about’: lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food
Vietnam was a Covid success story but the latest lockdown, with people unable to leave the house even for food, is leaving tens of thousands hungryWhen the strictest lockdown to date was imposed in Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Thi Hao*, a factory worker, was…