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Scientific consensus absent as impasse between China and west continues to hamper tracing effortCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRobert Garry, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane medical school in Louisiana, …
Restrictions return in China, South Africa and Germany as countries around the world struggle to contain new variantCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization has warned that the Omicron coronavirus varian…
Māori boy who died last week was youngest New Zealander to die with virus and the first childCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first death of a child with Covid-19 in New Zealand has prompted calls for Māori children to be…
Residents of the wider Auckland region, closed off in August as the city tried to contain an outbreak of Covid-19, finally allowed to leaveCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere were tears of joy, long embraces and sighs of r…
Governments urged to use ‘peace dividend’ to help UN tackle pandemics, climate crisis and extreme povertyMore than 50 Nobel laureates have signed an open letter calling for all countries to cut their military spending by 2% a year for the next five yea…
Employee at high-security facility tests positive in island’s first local infection in weeksCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth officials in Taiwan are investigating whether a mouse bite may have been responsible for a la…
Japanese researchers use bird antibodies to detect virus under ultraviolet lightCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect Covid-19 by glowing under ultrav…
Bans failed to stop farmers torching fields each year but a new spray that turns stalks into fertiliser helps the soil and the airEvery autumn, Anil Kalyan, from Kutail village in India’s northern state of Haryana, would join tens of thousands of other…
Millions of over-40s in England can book a top-up jab from today; South Korea PM Kim Boo-kyum says hospital capacity under strain as cases riseUK races to deliver booster jabs before Omicron takes holdModerna or Novavax after AstraZeneca jab confers hi…
Rise in infections attributed to young people who have yet to be fully vaccinated and older citizens who have not received boostersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea has reported a record daily total of 7,175 new Co…
US, Japan and Singapore tighten rules for travellers but WHO says ‘blanket bans’ won’t contain the new Covid strainFollow updates in the pandemic hereSee all our coronavirus coverage hereThe World Health Organization has said those not fully vaccinated…
At least 241 people linked to religious community test positive for virusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the centre of a Covid outbreak in South Korea, as the …
Border will first open to New Zealand citizens coming from Australia, then from the rest of the world, and finally to all other vaccinated visitors from AprilSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand has announced it will reopen its borders to vaccin…
Benefits of approving age extension outweigh the risks, says secretary for food and healthCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has approved lowering the age limit for the Covid-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech to…
Claim will reignite debate about origins of pandemic, a continuing source of tension between US and ChinaThe first known Covid-19 case was a vendor at the live-animal market in Wuhan, according to a scientist who has scrutinised public accounts of the …