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Businesses fret as South Korea reimposes Covid-19 curfews

Businesses fret as South Korea reimposes Covid-19 curfews

As clocks struck 9 p.m. this week, customers packed up and left restaurants and other eateries across South Korea as a reimposed curfew designed to help stem a surge in coronavirus infections sparks fears of economic disaster for some businesses. Last week authorities announced a series of social distancing measures …

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Storm Rai weakens into tropical depression

After moving to the north of Vietnam’s Paracel Islands, Rai, once a super typhoon, has turned into a tropical depression. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the center of the depression lay 180 km south of China’s Hainan Island at 10 p.m. Monday with the strongest wind speed …

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Australia rules out lockdowns despite Omicron surge

Australia rules out lockdowns despite Omicron surge

Australia must move past “the heavy hand of government” and authorities must stop shutting down people’s lives with Covid-19 lockdowns, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday, as daily infections in the country shot up to a new pandemic high. Covid-9 cases have been breaking records over the last several …

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Vietnam records 14,966 new Covid cases

The Health Ministry confirmed 14,966 new local Covid-19 cases Monday, down 1,127 cases from the previous day, pushing the ongoing wave’s tally to 1,549,032. The three localities with the highest number of new cases were Hanoi with 1,612 cases, Ben Tre with 985 cases, and Ca Mau with 967 cases. …

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50 kilos of synthetic drugs from Cambodia seized in HCMC

Functional forces have seized 50 kilos of synthetic drugs from a truck disguised as a vehicle transporting eels from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City. As the truck entered Binh Dien wholesale market in HCMC’s District 8 early Monday, it was stopped for inspection by a special force comprising the …

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EU set to back Novavax Covid vaccine

EU set to back Novavax Covid vaccine

The E.U.’s drug regulator will decide Monday whether to approve a Covid jab by Novavax, which uses a more conventional technology that the U.S. biotech firm hopes will reduce vaccine hesitancy. Novavax’s jab, a protein-based vaccine of the kind used around the world to protect against many childhood illnesses, would …

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Typhoon Rai changes direction, heads for Paracel Islands

Typhoon Rai has moved closer to the Hoang Sa Peninsula (Paracel Islands) off Vietnam’s central coast after changing direction from northward to north-northeastward. At 7 a.m. Monday it was centered west of the Paracels and packed wind speeds of 90-120 kph, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. In …

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