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  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Laboratory viruses pose ‘existential threat’, warns bioweapons expert

    Dangerous pathogens need tighter security to prevent theft, accidents or terrorism

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    EU turns to US in scramble for AstraZeneca vaccine

    Move is part of bloc’s effort to boost faltering immunisation programme

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Mental health
    Horatio Clare: ‘There is no cure for being you or me’

    After suffering a breakdown, the acclaimed writer has found hope in new therapies

  • Saturday, 6 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    US approves new T-cell test for coronavirus

    Emergency use authorisation could help identify ‘long Covid’ sufferers

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus: California lays out plan to reopen outdoor stadiums and theme parks — as it happened
  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    News in-depthUK schools
    Parents face Monday’s return to school with trepidation

    Government decision to defy calls for phased restart unnerves families, and teachers, despite stress of home schooling

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    ‘After a year we’re back to square one’: Milan locked in Covid’s grasp

    Twelve months on from Europe’s first coronavirus lockdown, restrictions still dominate life in Italian city

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Coronavirus Business Update
    European tensions over vaccines return

    Italy’s export block of Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs to Australia comes amid discontent over EU policy

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Mystery person with P.1 coronavirus variant in UK found

    Health secretary Matt Hancock praises NHS test and trace for ‘dogged determination’ in tracking individual down

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  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    France backs Italy’s decision to block vaccine exports to Australia

    Canberra urges Brussels to review Rome’s move while also expressing sympathy to EU

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Inside London’s ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making

    Three east London boroughs were already at breaking point. Then the pandemic struck 

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    The painful politics of vaccination

    There is something powerful about the idea that until the lockdowns can be eased for everyone, they should be eased for nobody

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus: Alabama joins US states lifting mask mandates — as it happened
  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Germany approves AstraZeneca jab for over-65s

    U-turn could help speed up the country’s sluggish Covid-19 vaccination campaign

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Italy blocks shipment of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines to Australia

    Intervention threatens to increase global tensions over procurement of Covid jabs

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    US employment
    New US jobless claims bump higher to 745,000

    Pace of lay-offs remains stubbornly high despite some easing of coronavirus curbs

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    No need for lengthy trials of vaccine modifications, UK regulator says

    Decision makes approval possible in as little as two weeks after final data is received from manufacturers

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Deutsche Lufthansa AG
    Lufthansa slumps to worst-ever annual loss

    German airline group flew 76% fewer passengers in 2020 and is burning €300m per month

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Brussels Briefing
    Brussels’ Covid travel pass runs into early turbulence Premium

    Governments divided over merits of pandemic passports as non-EU vaccines administered in the bloc

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Stark link between obesity and Covid deaths revealed

    WHO-backed report concludes that 9 out of 10 fatalities have occurred in countries with high obesity levels

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Private equity
    Permira bids for $3.7bn medical device maker LivaNova

    Buyout group’s approach comes as private equity makes a push for healthcare deals amid pandemic

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus: Biden criticises Texas, Mississippi for ending mask mandates — as it happened
  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Chinese and South African police seize fake Covid vaccines

    Criminal gangs seek to capitalise on global demand for coronavirus jabs

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    Strong T-cell response is good news for battle against Covid variants

    US study likely to alleviate some concerns about new strains outsmarting vaccines

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    David Pilling
    Pandemics and the paradox of human progress

    The more we destabilise the planet in the name of advancement, the more pathogens will emerge

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