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Vaccine passports will come before global standards

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Such certification could help reopen economies and allow social freedoms enjoyed before the pandemic. Beyond the ethical questions that such documents pose, there is precedent for…

Variants may delay, not derail COVID-19 control

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Viruses mutate when they multiply and often the changes do not affect their behaviour significantly. However, changes that allow them to infect better, evade immune defences or…

Singapore will emerge strongly from COVID-19 crisis

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SINGAPORE

In early April, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced that he was stepping aside as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s designated successor. The key challenge in foreign…

Prospects for COVID-19 to end-2021

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PROSPECTS H2 2021

COVID-19 remains a complex disease due to lack of effective treatment, uncertainty around variants, marked differences by country and region on vaccination progress, and…

Delta concerns will undermine EU travel passport

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EU

EU: Travel passport faces threat from Delta variant

Patchwork of COVID-19 certificates to impede travel

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Despite this, there are no common standards for validating vaccination and COVID test results. This is hampering national-level disease containment efforts and also regional and…

Unrest and COVID-19 will reduce South African growth

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SOUTH AFRICA

This chokes off an unexpectedly strong economic recovery in the first half of 2021. Meanwhile, unemployment has hit a record high at 35%, or 47% according to the expanded…

‘Finishing line’ of pandemic will vary by country

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With Israel showing what life is like after widespread vaccination against COVID-19, the question is who will be next

Rebound among South-east Asian airlines will be uneven

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Air passenger traffic in the region has fallen sharply since the onset of COVID-19 crisis. Most South-east Asian countries are battling resurgent waves of infection, fuelled by…

Only vaccines or drugs will end social distancing

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INTERNATIONAL

Studies currently estimate that only a small fraction of people were infected prior to strict social-distancing enforcement. A major second wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths is…