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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

What the papers say – May 2

Health reports are a major focus for the nation’s papers on Monday.

The Independent UK

The UK's most successful business bosses and why they're the most talked about

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Birmingham Post

Heineken UK to create more than 700 jobs through £42m investment into hundreds of pubs

A total of 137 pubs will have a makeover costing over £125,000 each

Birmingham Post

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

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID-19 statistics from each state and territory.

ABC News

Household COVID isolation rule ends

Compulsory isolation for household contacts of people with COVID-19 is a thing of the past as the nation learns to live with the virus.

AAP

Cancer referrals hit record-breaking 2.7 million after pandemic slump

Some 30,000 people have not yet started treatment due to the pandemic, one NHS chief says

The Independent UK

Labour says government refusal to publish PPE firm’s contracts ‘reeks of cover-up’

Angela Rayner says dealings with firm linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone need same scrutiny as Owen Paterson’s lobbying for Covid test contracts

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Qantas to launch London-Sydney nonstops in 2025

Australian airline will use specially configured Airbus A350 jets for 19-hour flight

The Independent UK

Lanarkshire senior nurse urges parents of young children to consider COVID-19 vaccine

The Pfizer vaccine was approved for youngsters in December 2021.

Daily Record

Bill Gates claims the world may not have seen the worst of the coronavirus

The co-founder of tech giant Microsoft claimed there could be more dangerous Covid variants to come

Manchester Evening News

UN chief calls for debt relief, post-COVID investment on W. Africa trip

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged debt relief for African countries and more investment to help their economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and weather the impacts of the Ukraine war.

Reuters

Can the NHS live with Covid?

Special Report: Across the NHS, from routine care to emergency treatment, health leaders tell Rebecca Thomas that pressure brought on by the pandemic has become unsustainable – with patients’ lives on the line as a result

The Independent UK

Community healthcare workers were left feeling isolated and under-appreciated during the pandemic

Aotearoa New Zealand’s community nurses and home and community care assistants have played a crucial yet largely invisible role in the country’s response to the global pandemic.

The Conversation

Vaccine boosters may not be enough — the problem with immune “exhaustion”

The key could be retooling the mRNA vaccine to protect against new variants as their efficacy wains.

Inverse

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ABC News

Heart attacks don't wait for you to turn 52, they can strike at any age, at any time

GPs have seen a surge in people wanting to have their heart checked since the sudden deaths of cricketer Shane Warne, Victorian Labor senator Kimberley Kitching and a major heart attack suffered by the AFL's Dean Wallis.

Reuters

South Africa's Aspen COVID-19 vaccine plant risks closure after no orders-executive

Africa's first COVID-19 vaccination plant, touted last year as a trailblazer for an under-vaccinated continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts, risks shutting down after receiving not a single order, a company executive said on Saturday.

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu reports 47 fresh COVID-19 cases

Only one infection reported from the IIT Madras cluster

Daily Record

Tragedy as baby in dirty drug addict home died at just a few weeks old

Social workers were only able to make checks on children through a window during lockdown, according to a new report.

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The Hindu

Telangana adds 32 cases to COVID tally

A little over 9,000 samples were tested

The Times of India

Karnataka reports 104 new Covid-19 cases, one death

BENGALURU: Karnataka on Sunday logged 104 fresh coronavirus cases and one death, taking the total infection count and toll to 39.47 lakh and 40,060 respectively. Of the total infections, Bengaluru urban district saw 93 while Vijayapura reported three cases, two each in Dakshina Kannada and Bengaluru Rural, and one each…

The Times of India

Gujarat reports 18 new Covid-19 cases, tally rises to 12,24,358

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat on Sunday reported 18 Covid-19 cases, taking its tally to 12,24,358, while the death toll remained unchanged at 10,943, a state health department official said.

Manchester Evening News

The gentle giant who is the guardian of "Greater Manchester's Serengeti"

"It took something as shocking as COVID to make realise what we have got, and what can we value."

The National (Scotland)

Ministers under 'cross-party pressure to discharge hospital patients to care homes'

Swinney has said ministers were under pressure to discharge patients from hospitals to care homes from “all political parties”

The Conversation

Four lessons from online learning that should stick after the pandemic

One of the many changes COVID-19 brought those in education was an almost immediate switch to online learning.

Wales Online

'Long Covid has left me sleeping for 20 hours a day and so weak I can't even shower'

"There’s no pill. There’s nothing you can take. You just have to ride the wave until you feel stronger"

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