Today’s covid-19 news: · Chinese researchers predict 2 million deaths if zero covid restrictions lifted · Australia plans to reopen its borders this month · Hong Kong records its highest number of cases
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, on average. Current restrictions include early closure for bars and restaurants and a cap of 500 people in larger indoor venues. The move follows that of Denmark, which this week became the first European Union country to lift all of its coronavirus restrictions, amid daily new infections of between 40,000 to 50,000.A small trial that involved deliberately infecting volunteers
Researchers in the UK gave 36 volunteers aged between 18 and 29 a low dose of the virus via droplets placed in the nose. The virus was taken from a person who became ill with covid-19 very early in the pandemic, before any notable variants had emerged.