Hong Kong Easing Travel; Singapore Karaoke Cluster: Virus Update


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(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong next month will allow vaccinated residents and workers to return from the U.K., Brazil, India and other countries it labeled as extremely high-risk areas, according to the South China Morning Post. Singapore police started investigating karaoke lounges at the center of a fresh outbreak. In Argentina, the death toll from Covid-19 topped 100,000. Ten other countries have crossed that grim milestone, with the worst-hit nation -- the U.S. -- reporting another somber health record. U.S. drug overdose deaths soared almost 30% to 93,331 in 2020, or an average of 256 a day. Meanwhile, new daily infections...