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Your Hourly COVID-19 News Feed - Drill Down by Source: All BBC Hacker News
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| 2021-05-31 |
Covid: WHO renames UK and other variants with Greek letters The variant first detected in the UK becomes Alpha, with South Africa, Brazil and India also renamed. |
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| 2021-05-31 |
Ho Chi Minh: Vietnam to test entire city amid new variant fears 13 million people in Ho Chi Minh will be tested and new social distancing rules have been imposed. |
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| 2021-05-30 |
Biosecurity warning over loosely-regulated virus labs Governments do not have controls to stop terrorists accessing labs and posing a biological threat. |
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| 2021-05-30 |
The Indian children orphaned by Covid-19 Officially, hundreds of children have lost both their parents. Experts say the number may be much higher. |
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| 2021-05-29 |
Stuck on a world tour serving soup in Lahore A German couple crossed 11 countries before the pandemic halted them en route to India. |
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| 2021-05-29 |
Holding on to hope during India’s Covid disaster The BBC's Nikita Mandhani reflects on her personal experience of the second wave in India. |
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| 2021-05-29 |
Covid: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say The mutation, a combination of the Indian and UK variants, is described by officials as "very dangerous". |
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| 2021-05-29 |
Brazil: Protesters blame Bolsonaro for Covid crisis Thousands of people angry at the slow rollout of vaccines take to the streets in cities across Brazil. |
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| 2021-05-29 |
Footage shows US flight attendant being attacked by passenger A dispute over the airline's mask policy led to a passenger punching a flight attendant. |
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| 2021-05-28 |
Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Warnings of genocide and famine Concern is mounting about the devastating effects of the conflict raging in Tigray since November. |
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| 2021-05-28 |
Covid-19: Japan extends state of emergency just before Olympics Restrictions in Tokyo and nine other areas will now not be lifted until a month before the Olympics. |
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| 2021-05-28 |
Covid: EU approves Pfizer-BioNTech jab for 12-15 year olds German leaders say that vaccinations of children aged over 12 can start on 7 June. |
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| 2021-05-28 |
Belarus plane diversion: Putin plays down crisis at talks with Lukashenko Russia's president dismisses outrage over Belarus's diversion of a jet to arrest a dissident journalist. |
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| 2021-05-28 |
Barack Obama: 'Marcus Rashford is way ahead of where I was at 23' Barack Obama praises footballer Marcus Rashford's anti-poverty work in a Zoom meeting. |
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| 2021-05-28 |
Taiwan must choose between virus and politics The island is desperately seeking vaccines - but must decide whether to accept China's offers of help. |
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| 2021-05-27 |
The teenagers fighting India's deadly Covid crisis Suhani and Prabhpreet are part of a team who find and verify what resources are available for families in need. |
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| 2021-05-27 |
Covid: France bans non-essential travel from UK France joins Austria and Germany in introducing restrictions due to the spread of the Indian variant. |
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| 2021-05-27 |
Covid: China hits back as US revisits Wuhan lab-leak theory China accuses the US of "political manipulation" over investigations into the origins of the pandemic. |
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| 2021-05-27 |
Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously The claim Covid-19 may have leaked from a Chinese laboratory is gaining traction. Here's what we know. |
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| 2021-05-27 |
Amazon construction site paused again as another noose found The retail giant halted construction of a factory in Connecticut briefly after an eighth noose was found. |
