Those who attack Neil Ferguson and Sage’s pandemic predictions only expose their ignorance about science• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageIt feels like open season on Professor Neil Ferguson right now. Sections of the medi…
世界を悩ませる「ブレイクスルー感染」と長期後遺症「ロング・コヴィド」：新型コロナウイルスと世界のいま（7月）
ワクチン接種完了者が新型コロナウイルスに感染する「ブレイクスルー感染」の報告が増え始めた7月。感染後に長期にわたって患者を苦しめる後遺症、いわゆる「ロング・コヴィド」の実態も見え始めてきた。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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Pride and anxiety mingle in Japan as Olympic medal tally and Covid cases rise
Outdoor events have drawn huge turnouts in Tokyo despite public concern over coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan broke two records last week. On Thursday, the day its athletes took their medal haul to a level no…
Macron tells critics: vaccine passport will protect all our freedoms
French protests expected to enter fourth week but president’s hardline strategy is succeedingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen the Great Plague struck Marseille in 1720, killing more than half of the city’s population, tr…
We put our shirt on French holiday roulette and the wheel stopped on… amber | Rachel Cooke
It’s been a white-knuckle ride, but we’re finally off to France subject to our Covid ‘declaration of honour’Like many people, I’ve spent a lot of this year playing the great new game of holiday roulette, a wild ride that began for me in January, when a…
Fresh protests in France against Covid health pass
Opponents of Emmanuel Macron’s plans take to streets across country for fourth weekend runningCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProtesters took to the streets across France on Saturday for the fourth weekend in a row to oppose…
Covid is making a summer break something only the rich can afford
Rocketing prices at home, and costly tests if you leave the UK, mean many who need a break simply cannot afford itCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNext week, Sally Neuman is going on holiday. But instead of jetting off to a M…
Prof Francois Balloux: ‘The pandemic has created a market for gloom and doom’
The UCL scientist and ‘militant corona centrist’ on the risk of new variants, psychosomatic long Covid and when he expects the crisis to endCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProf Francois Balloux is director of the University …
‘Thanks for your help, Sticky’: Michael Rosen on learning to walk again after Covid
His traumatic experience with coronavirus inspired the author’s new children’s book – about the ‘friend’ he leaned onIt was the tweet that let the world know Michael Rosen was back on form and on the mend. “My wheelchair days are over. Stick now. Stick…
Republicans treated Covid like a bioweapon. Then it turned against them | Rebecca Solnit
Trump’s team reportedly believed that coronavirus would hurt Democratic states – and Democratic governors – worse. But the virus does not discriminateSome of the most powerful conservatives in the United States have, since the beginning of the Covid-19…