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Your Hourly COVID-19 News Feed - Drill Down by Source: All BBC Hacker News
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2021-01-09 |
Covid: Locked-down women turn to pills amid Malta abortion ban Malta has the EU's strictest abortion ban - but pressure is growing to ease it. |
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2021-01-08 |
Covid-19: Singapore woman jailed for hiding meetings with male friend The 65-year-old did not tell contract tracers in Singapore about her outings with a male friend. |
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2021-01-08 |
US hit as jobs fall for first time since April The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December, as rising coronavirus cases took a toll. |
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2021-01-08 |
Pfizer vaccine 'works' against key variant mutation, study suggests The vaccine is able to attack one of the mutations found in new forms of the virus, lab studies show. |
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2021-01-08 |
South Africa coronavirus variant: What is the risk? Why experts are concerned about the emergence of this particular new version of coronavirus. |
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2021-01-08 |
Covid: The challenge in speeding up France's vaccination drive As France seeks to speed up its coronavirus vaccination programme, it battles fear and distrust. |
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2021-01-08 |
Covid: Brisbane to enter three-day lockdown over single infection The Australian city will begin a three-day lockdown after a cleaner contracted the UK virus variant. |
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2021-01-07 |
Covid: WHO urges tougher measures to curb 'alarming' variant An official says 22 European countries have cases of the variant and tougher measures are needed. |
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2021-01-07 |
Covid-19: Australia to begin mass vaccinations in February Half of Australians may be inoculated against coronavirus by mid-year as authorities speed up plans. |
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2021-01-07 |
Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there. |
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2021-01-07 |
Tokyo 2020: Organisers say Olympic Games will go ahead despite Covid-19 surge Tokyo 2020 organisers say they will be ready to host the Olympic Games - despite the city declaring a state of emergency over Covid-19. |
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2021-01-07 |
Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January. |
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2021-01-07 |
Facial recognition identifies people wearing masks NEC developed the system in response to the coronavirus pandemic. |
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2021-01-07 |
Game maker Roblox's value rockets seven-fold during pandemic The online game maker is now pushing ahead with a shares debut after securing fresh funding. |
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2021-01-07 |
'New York is not dead, but it is on life support' Has the coronavirus pandemic hurt America's fragile urban revival - or killed it? |
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2021-01-07 |
Streets of Beijing back to life after Covid The BBC asks people in Beijing whether they think their economy's recovered from the Covid pandemic. |
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2021-01-06 |
US election 2020: Moment protesters storm US Capitol Building The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building. |
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2021-01-06 |
Bird flu: India to cull poultry amid fears of virus Avian flu was has so far been detected in wild geese, crows and ducks in various parts of the country. |
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2021-01-06 |
Covid: WHO team investigating virus origins denied entry to China Visas had not been cleared for team members already en route to probe the origins of the virus. |
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2021-01-06 |
Stuck in Taiwan, a Brit spearheads campaign to clean up river Peter Lowe noticed the problem after getting stuck in Taiwan during the pandemic. |