Australian trade minister offers ‘compromise’ with China over anti-dumping tariffs
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Australia’s trade minister has extended an olive branch to China, suggesting a “compromise situation” or “alternative way” to settle trade disputes might emerge in talks between the two countries. Don Farrell made th...
China imposes Covid lockdown in Xi’an after handful of cases
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Businesses, schools and restaurants in Xi’an will close for one week, officials have said, after the Chinese city logged a handful of Covid-19 cases as outbreaks nationwide strain Beijing’s zero-tolerance virus approa...
Sats suggest Covid disruption affecting primary school attainment in England
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The Covid pandemic and disruption has undone many of the improvements in primary school test results within the last five years, according to this year’s Sats assessments taken by pupils in England. Just 59% of 10- an...
UK Covid cases are rising – should we wear masks again?
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With Covid infection levels increasing and hospitalisations following suit with the rise of the Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, some experts have called for a reintroduction of mask-wearing in certain settings, wi...
Women behind the lens: a life or death moment on Malawi’s Covid wards
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This picture was taken in January 2021, as part of an assignment to photograph a Covid-19 ward at Queen Elizabeth Central hospital in Blantyre, southern Malawi. Malawi registered its first Covid-19 case in April 2020,...
Atagi considers fourth Covid vaccine doses as Omicron subvariants drive surge in cases
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Australia’s independent expert advisory group on vaccines is meeting to discuss fourth Covid-19 booster doses, as Omicron subvariants drive a rise in infections, leading some premiers to urge people to wear masks more...
New Covid subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the most contagious yet – and driving Australia’s third Omicron wave
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Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave in the coming weeks, as BA.4 and BA.5 become the dominant Covid strains. BA.4 and BA.5 are more infectious than previous Covid variants and subvariants, and are better a...
Keir Starmer’s Brexit plan is a mouse of a policy – what is he so afraid of?
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The Labour leader Keir Starmer has at last peeped from behind his policy curtain and squeaked that he can “make Brexit work”. No, no, don’t worry, he is not against it, heaven forbid. He would not even wink at the sin...