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2021-02-15 Covid-19: Musician Tarriona Tank reflects on lockdown Mardi Gras

Grammy-nominated jazz singer Tarriona Tank reflects on how New Orleans will miss Mardi Gras this year.

2021-02-15 Japan's economy shrinks 4.8% in 2020 due to Covid

The disappointing figure comes despite surging growth in the second half of the year.

2021-02-15 New York City : Man charged with deadly subway stabbings

Two people die and another two are injured in a string of attacks said to have targeted homeless people.

2021-02-15 Coronavirus: The 'Fabulous Ladies' book club helping to vaccinate their small town

Dr Keri Rath recruited her club members to help distribute Covid vaccines to their New Mexico town.

2021-02-15 Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: 'I lost my hand when a soldier tried to rape me'

A teenager caught up in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict tells of her and her grandfather's near-death encounter.

2021-02-15 Bill Gates: Solving Covid easy compared with climate

Solving global warming would be “the most amazing thing humanity has done”, says the billionaire.

2021-02-15 Hotel quarantine: What isolating in a hotel room is like

Under travel rules, Aaron has to spend three weeks in a hotel room in Hong Kong, and Jane is in a Sydney hotel for a fortnight.

2021-02-15 Covid: Should we double mask face coverings?

There’s a lot of choice about which type of face covering to wear – and in some countries the advice is changing.

2021-02-14 Covid: UK scientist defends WHO fact-finding mission to Wuhan

There has been criticism over the level of access to key data the team was given by the Chinese.

2021-02-14 Covid infecting humans through animal host 'probable'

Professor John Watson is a member of the World Health Organization's team investigating the origins of Covid-19.

2021-02-14 Guinea records first Ebola deaths since 2016

These are the first cases in West Africa, five years after the end of the world's deadliest outbreak.

2021-02-14 Covid-19 pandemic: New Zealand's biggest city ordered into lockdown

The move comes after three new local cases of Covid-19 were reported in Auckland.

2021-02-14 Covid-19: South Africa to reopen border crossings

The country has been hit hard by a second wave of the outbreak linked to a new Covid variant.

2021-02-13 Covid-19 pandemic: China 'refused to give data' to WHO team

A member of the team accuses China of withholding full data on the early days of the outbreak.

2021-02-13 Covid: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be tested on children

A trial will assess whether the vaccine produces a strong immune response in six to 17-year-olds.

2021-02-13 The 'saviour' loan apps that trapped pandemic-struck Indians

Hundreds of apps offering "instant" loans drew people who were out of work and desperate for cash.

2021-02-12 Why Canada is falling behind in Covid vaccinations

The country is lagging in its vaccination plans amid a delayed delivery of doses.

2021-02-12 Covid: France says just one jab needed for previously infected

They already have some immunity and a single dose will "act as a booster", the health agency says.

2021-02-12 Amazon sues NY amid threat of virus labour lawsuit

The retailer is seeking to block a lawsuit over its response to Covid-19 safety concerns.

2021-02-12 Covid: Germany to halt travel from Czech Republic and Tyrol

Germany announces border restrictions, while the Austrian and Czech governments also restrict travel.

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