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Black Friday will deliver 'body blow' to Britain's Covid-hammered high street

UAE records 1,310 Covid-19 cases as five patients die

UK quarantine slashed in half by taking £120 Covid test

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Covid-19 vaccination will be required to fly on Qantas

Saudi Arabia hopes to have enough vaccines for 70% of population by end of 2021
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UAE reports 1,310 new cases from 100,011 tests
International air travellers will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to fly with Australia's Qantas, the airline's chief executive has said. AFP

Covid-19 vaccination will be required to fly on Qantas
Mass screening has been an effective measure employed world over to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Victor Besa / The National

UAE records lowest Covid-19 cases for three weeks on lower testing
The Oxford University vaccine is 70 per cent effective. EPA

How does the Oxford Covid vaccine work?

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New Yorkers Vern Calhoun (left) and Andrew Chandler (centre) outside the Met museum this week. James Reinl for The National

New Yorkers describe a city changed by Covid-19
A demonstrator wears a white mask during a protest against the government's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, near the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's lower house of parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, November, 18, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Mang

Police fire water cannons at people protesting in Berlin against Covid-19 rules
Covid-19 has disrupted transportation and mobility. Antonie Robertson / The National

What mobility looks like post Covid-19
People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS

Why England isn’t staying locked down during lockdown 2
Professor Robert Dingwall says getting outside - in a Covid-safe way - would be helpful. Courtesy Professor Robert Dingwall

Expert tactics to help you thrive during lockdown
The white Kashmiri goats were spotted in Llandudno town centre in March after the UK went into lockdown to curb the coronavirus, and around 150 wild goats said to be in the Great Orme headland, overlooking the Welsh town. Getty Images

Covid lockdown goats help hospice raise $155,000
Hundreds of triathletes welcomed the opportunity to return to competition on Friday. Courtesy: Race ME

Masks and medals as triathlon season gets under way in Dubai
An archaeology worker opens a sarcophagus at the Saqqara archaeological site, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, in the presence of journalists and officials. Egypt’s ministry of antiquities and tourism says at least 59 sealed sarcophagi with mummies inside were found that had been buried in three wells more than 2,600 years ago. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Khaled)

Why curse of the pharaohs or Covid won’t slow Egypt’s archaeologists
Fans at premier League club Brighton and Hove Albion watch a pre-season friendly while socially distancing. PA

Spectators are set to return to sports venues in England next month
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces lockdown will end on December 2. Getty Images

Shops, restaurants and some sports stadiums to reopen when lockdown ends
Residents wearing face masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19 on their way home after a day's work in Abu Dhabi. Victor Besa / The National 

Labour survey to evaluate Covid-19's effect on jobs in Abu Dhabi
Mass testing is set to be expanded across the UK. AFP

Guide to life after lockdown in the UK
People walk past a Cineworld in Leicester's Square. Services have been hit hard across the UK and eurozone, as consumer-facing service providers report the steepest downturns. Reuters

UK and eurozone business activity falls sharply in November as lockdown effects take hold
People stroll in the cold but sunny weather along Standvagen quayside in Stockholm, Sweden, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. AFP

Swedes scolded by PM Stefan Lofven for failing to keep their distance
The Hakaniemi Sunday market, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Helsinki. Finland has done better than most European countries in tackling the virus. Reuters

How these European countries got their Covid response so right
Pfizer is one of the drug companies to have produced a coronavirus vaccine it says is more than 90 per cent effective. Reuters

US to begin mass Covid-19 vaccination plan in December
Men account for almost two thirds of Covid-19 infections in the UAE. Chris Whiteoak / The National

Men in UAE at greater risk of developing Covid-19, says official
Muslims take part in Friday prayers at King Abdullah Mosque after the government allowed worshipers to break a blanket ban for an hour and walk to mosques, amid fears over rising numbers of coronavirus disease in downtown Amman. Reuters

Grim death toll undermines confidence in Jordan’s ability to cope
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Spain's Covid-19 vaccination programme will begin in January. EPA

Spain to begin Covid-19 vaccination programme in January
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to make new Covid-19 announcements on Monday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK looking at Covid-19 certificates for travellers and ‘freedom passes’
The World Health Organisation's David Nabarro warns of a third pandemic wave next year. Reuters

WHO envoy warns of third Covid wave in Europe in early 2021
Palestinian healthcare workers wait to check patients at Shifa hospital amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Gaza City November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Gaza hospitals ‘days away from being overwhelmed by Covid-19’
A worker in a protective suit takes a throat swab for a COVID-19 test in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Authorities are conducting mass testing and shutting down schools after China reported three new domestically transmitted cases in the past 24 hours - two in northern Inner Mongolia province and one in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

People who recover from Covid-19 can be reinfected with new strain, study shows
(FILES) In this file photo a medical personnel is on duty at the Covid-19 section of the emergency service of the Robert Boulin hospital in Libourne, southwestern France, on November 6, 2020 some 45kms north of Bordeaux. One of the teams racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine announced on November 9, 2020 its drug had shown 90 percent effectiveness against the illness, sending stock markets soaring and raising hopes of an end to draconian restrictions on movement.US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said tests involving more than 40,000 people had provided results that were a "critical milestone" in the search for a vaccine, as global infections soared passed 50 million -- almost one-fifth of them in the United States. / AFP / Philippe LOPEZ

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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks during BBC TV's The Andrew Marr Show in London. Jeff Overs/BBC

Rishi Sunak promises ‘no return to austerity’
The Supreme Petroleum Council also approved award of oil and gas blocks under the second licensing round. Courtesy: Adnoc

Adnoc to put Dh160bn into UAE economy over the next five years
The UAE has continued to increase its mass testing programme. Chris Whiteoak / The National

UAE records 1,205 Covid-19 cases as four patients die
Nurses talk at a pop-up Covid-19 testing station in Auckland, New Zealand. Seven passengers on a Dubai to Auckland flight tested positive several days after they landed in New Zealand's largest city. Fiona Goodall / Getty Images

Covid-19 carrier on Dubai to New Zealand flight infected at least four others
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