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The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

CDC No Longer Recommends Social Distancing, Masks in Schools Unless Spread Is High

New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control finally acknowledges that the pandemic is over for most people.

Reason

CDC drops Covid quarantine rules and test-to-stay for US schools

“This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives,” says CDC branch chief

The Independent UK

CDC drops quarantine, screening recommendations for COVID-19

The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person

The Independent UK

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Infectious disease experts warn Omicron wave not the last of Australia's COVID-19 pandemic

According to infectious diseases experts, future surges and strains of COVID-19 are still a risk as the winter wave eases.

ABC News

Hospital admissions continue to fall as Covid-19 wave recedes

Admission rates remain highest among the most elderly.

The Independent UK

Africa CDC in 'advanced' talks to obtain monkeypox vaccines

Africa’s public health agency says the continent of 1.3 billion people still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine, but “very advanced discussions” are underway with at least two partners

The Independent UK

What to do if you test positive for Covid now restrictions have been scrapped

With no more legal requirement in place compelling you to isolate if you catch the coronavirus, many are confused about what to do

The Independent UK

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More than two years into the pandemic, hospital care still may not save you from dying of COVID-19

PHILADELPHIA — By the fall of 2020, the pandemic’s first year, doctors treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients said they were starting to get the regimen down to a science. They learned when to put patients on ventilators, administer steroids, and deploy an expanding array of newer drugs.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Can you go to work with Covid?

Or, more importantly, should you? As Covid cases remain high, here’s everything you need to know

The Independent UK

People vaccinated against Covid share common symptom after testing positive

Around one in five vaccinated Britons with Omicron or Delta strain experienced diarrhoea as a symptom

The Independent UK

Another death from COVID in Canberra, as known cases continue to fall

The ACT recorded 464 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Wednesday

The Canberra Times

The latest COVID-19 case numbers from around the states and territories

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each state and territory.

ABC News

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Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?

Tribune News Service

Vaccines are now approved for children aged six months to five years, but what about newborn babies?

COVID-19 vaccines are now approved for children aged from six months up to five years and are already being rolled out to about 70,000 at-risk youngsters.

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Nursery worker, 21, died after Covid result meant she couldn't have liver transplant

The family of nursery worker Katie Horne, 21, have been left "devastated" by her death in April 2020 a month after checking into hospital with jaundice, dark urine and cramps

The Hindu

COVID-19, arguably, has become endemic in India

It is time to deal with COVID-19 just like any other health condition and integrate COVID-19 interventions in general health service

WEKU

Polio vaccine boosters are offered to London children as the virus spreads

Children were made eligible for booster doses after health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of London but found no cases of the paralytic disease in people.

Daily Record

Long Covid advice for men as condition may impact sex life and hair loss

Three symptoms caught one health expert's attention as he believes they may be negatively affecting men's mental and physical health.

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London kids to be offered polio shot after more virus found

British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to London children age 1 to 9 after finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple regions of the city

Axios

Clear results elusive in long COVID studies

Studies struggle to even pin down how commonly it occurs.

The Guardian - UK

UK will ‘run out of monkeypox vaccine in 10 to 20 days’

Leading sexual health expert predicts a gap of almost one month before supplies are replenished

The Independent UK

WHO: COVID-19 deaths fall overall by 9%, infections stable

The World Health Organization says in its latest weekly pandemic report that the number of coronavirus deaths fell by 9% in the last week while new cases remained relatively stable

Tribune News Service

Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Today’s hyper-transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus has sent cases soaring across the country. But rising deaths — the grim marker of earlier dangerous surges — haven’t kept pace, and the average risk of dying from an infection is dropping to levels almost as low as…

Evening Standard

Monkeypox: Government accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ as London runs low on vaccines

Experts warn supply could run dry in as soon as ten days, leaving gaps before next shipment is due in September

Manchester Evening News

UK waiting for thousands of monkeypox vaccines with 'doses running out'

The UK Health Security Agency reports that there have been supply issues

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