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Canada's largest city, Toronto, wants lockdown extended
Canada's largest city asked the Ontario provincial government on Wednesday to extend a lockdown order to at least March 9.
Feb 17, 2021
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Portugal curbs travel after record virus deaths
Portugal on Thursday reported twin COVID records with 303 new deaths and 16,432 cases in a 24-hour period, prompting a decision to limit foreign travel to "special cases".
Jan 28, 2021
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Why the COVID-19 variants are so dangerous and how to stop them spreading
With new, more infectious variants of COVID-19 detected around the world, and at New Zealand's border, the risk of further level 3 or 4 lockdowns is increased if those viruses get into the community.
Jan 22, 2021
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Germany sees record death toll on first day of new lockdown
German streets were quiet "like Sunday" on the first day of a new partial lockdown to try to halt surging infections, as the country reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths.
Dec 16, 2020
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Grasping exponential growth
The coronavirus outbreak offered the public a crash course in statistics, with terms like doubling time, logarithmic scales, R factor, rolling averages, and excess mortality now on everyone's tongue. However, simply having ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Germany orders partial lockdown to curb 'out of control' virus
Germany will go into a partial lockdown from Wednesday with non-essential shops and schools to close, as Europe's biggest economy battles to halt an "exponential growth" in coronavirus infections.
Dec 13, 2020
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Germany warns virus taking 'worrying' turn for worse
Germany's trend of new infections has taken a worrying turn, the head of its disease control agency said Thursday, as the death toll to date crossed the grim milestone of 20,000.
Dec 10, 2020
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Travel restrictions must be used in a targeted way to be effective at controlling local COVID-19 transmission: study
The measures may have limited impact on the epidemic within individual countries except those with low levels of the virus or that have strong travel links with countries experiencing high rates of infection.
Dec 8, 2020
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Germany extends virus curbs to January 10: Merkel
Germany will keep its cultural and sporting facilities as well as restaurants and bars shut until January 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, extending shutdown measures to curb transmission of the coronavirus.
Dec 2, 2020
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Tier 1 restrictions in England didn't work, tier reallocation too slow, research shows
Tier 1 restrictions in England have had "little impact" on COVID-19 transmission according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Nov 30, 2020
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