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                                <title><![CDATA[ Hong Kong leader says no plans to tighten Covid social distancing measures ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 05:31:34 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Hong Kong has reported more than 700,000 infections and about 4,000 deaths, most of them taking place in the past three weeks. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Do not help crashed Olympics vehicles, Beijing police warn ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:00:51 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Authorities have closed up the bubble last week meaning thousands of staff, volunteers, cleaners, cooks and coach drivers will be cocooned for weeks with no access to the outside world. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Thai beauty pageant investigated after Covid cluster ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2021 10:30:19 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Thirteen contestants and nine others associated with the Miss Grand Samut Sakhon pageant have tested positive for the virus. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ British hugs allowed soon as lockdown starts to ease ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2021 00:46:25 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The UK is now recording around 2,000 new coronavirus cases a day, compared with a daily peak of nearly 70,000 in January. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ SOPs a casualty of Raya shopping fever? ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Farhira Farudin and Siva Selan ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2021 03:00:54 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Crowds of customers at malls and bazaars are making it difficult to enforce physical distancing rules. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Masks and social distancing ‘could last several years’ ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:24:57 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ UK scientific advisers are saying maintaining basic policies which reduce transmission will be necessary for some time to come. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ State of emergency declared at Florida beach over uncontrollable crowds ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:55:36 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ With approximately 13% of US residents vaccinated, the atmosphere is particularly festive and the illusion that the pandemic is now under control is pervasive. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Spared the worst of Covid-19, Pakistan’s poor abandon SOPs ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:11:04 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ While Pakistan managed to avoid the huge numbers of casualties authorities had feared, a social divide is appearing between those who observe SOPs and those who do not. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Crowds of parents forced to queue for school transfers despite online process ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 03:00:35 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The long lines of parents told to get their documents validated in person trigger concern over virus SOPs. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Alarm in France after 2,500 mass for illegal rave ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 15:12:12 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Police are said to have met 'fierce hostility' from many of the partygoers who set one of their cars of fire and threw bottles and stones. ]]></description>
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