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Keeping the Olympics Covid-free: life inside Beijing’s ‘closed loop’ bubble

The 11,000 foreign athletes, media crews and guests will be met at the airport by workers in biohazard suits

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Airport confirms return of popular winter sun flight as Covid restrictions ease

As travel bans are being lifted and testing requirements are easing, Edinburgh Airport have announced a range of new flights and the return of a popular winter sun route.

Edinburgh Live

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics daily briefing: one week to go to an ice and snow spectacular

The scene is set for fantastic sport – but all under the threat of Covid and amid controversy over China’s human rights record

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Kaegi botched COVID tax relief

The Cook County assessor cut values based on jobs he thought neighborhoods would lose due to the pandemic. It was a wild miscalculation that worked out well for some, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot, not so well for residents of a poor South Side neighborhood.

Chicago Sun-Times

BA.2 variant: Everything we know about the new ‘stealth Omicron’ Covid strain

It’s harder to detect than original Omicron and may be even faster at spreading but, say scientists, is probably no more dangerous

The Independent UK

Mask wearing and the other Covid rules Sunderland people are still being asked to follow

'We know the people of Sunderland will make the right choices to hep stop the spread of the virus,' says the council leader

Chronicle Live

Downing Street parties: No 10 denies talking to Met police about Gray report and what could be published – as it happened

Downing Street spokesperson ‘not aware’ of any conversations with the Met over publication of Sue Gray report

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As student activists fight for COVID safety measures at schools, some face criticism

LOS ANGELES — These days after classes, Michael Lee-Chang pulls up his mother's email inbox and finds the latest update of daily coronavirus cases at his school, Redondo Union High. The 18-year-old senior scans for other school announcements and uploads the information to his Instagram stories, where some 4,700 followers,…

Los Angeles Times

Covid restrictions on social distancing and face masks change in Scotland from today

Nicola Sturgeon made the announcement on Tuesday as new cases of the Omicron variant begin to drop all across Scotland but the latest data shows Edinburgh has the most new infections in the country

Edinburgh Live

Beijing Olympics Ready to Go but Controversies, Covid Weigh Heavy

A Winter Olympics overshadowed by diplomatic boycotts and concerns about human rights, Covid and the safety of Peng Shuai begins next Friday in a vast "bubble" in the Chinese capital Beijing. Warnings about air pollution, government snooping and the environmental impact of a Games which relies almost entirely on man-made…

Asharq Al-Awsat

London politics latest news: Met police ‘looking at potential fixed penalty offences’ as wait for Sue Gray report continues

Met Police officers are investigating possible breaches of Covid rules within government that could warrant fixed penalty notices rather than more serious offences, the PA news agency reported on Friday.

Evening Standard

Six Downing Street 'parties' - and how they allegedly broke Covid laws, according to lawyer

The Prime Minister is accused of attending at least five of the events, it has been reported

Chronicle Live

Man fined £7,000 for leaving quarantine hotel room to smoke

A man who repeatedly left his quarantine hotel room to smoke a cigarette when his wife had tested positive for Covid-19 has been fined £7,000.

Evening Standard

UK reports 89,176 new cases and 277 deaths – as it happened

UK cases and deaths fall day-on-day; Hong Kong government to compensate pet shops affected by culling of hamsters for Covid reasons

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Wales Online

Latest Covid rules across the UK after changes in all nations

The next set of rule changes in England will happen on January 31, while Wales has now hit Alert Level Zero

The Guardian - UK

Even Johnson’s own fraud minister couldn’t bear the stink of this government

With £5bn lost to fraudulent Covid loan claims, Lord Agnew did a rare thing for a minister in 2022: he told the truth and quit, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

ABC News

Five people with COVID-19 die in South Australia as restrictions to ease on hospitality, surgery, QR codes

Five South Australians with COVID-19 die in the last reporting period, all of them over the age of 80. Hospitality densities will double and QR code check-ins will no longer be required at retail venues.

The Independent UK

What are the Covid rules in the four nations of the UK?

Officials have said measures can be lifted due to the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme and falling rates of the Omicron variant.

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Roar's ALM task 'tough as it gets': Moon

Bottom of the ALM ladder, beset by injuries and COVID-19 positives, Brisbane Roar coach Warren Moon is facing his toughest challenge as an ALM coach.

The Guardian - AU

Aged care executive condemns Scott Morrison’s strategy of ‘pushing through’ Covid crisis

Omicron has magnified systemic flaws with staff ‘exhausted’ and residents ‘endlessly’ isolated, Baptistcare chief executive says

The Times of India

Pune past 3rd wave peak, say hospitals; patient inflow drops

PUNE: A majority of hospitals in the city have recorded a gradual drop in Covid admissions in the last 48 hours, raising hopes of the third wave already past its peak here and beginning to slowly ebb now.

The Canberra Times

'I'll miss sharing things with him': The grief and anger of a son whose father died of COVID

How political decisions spell tragedy for people at the end of their lives.

The Times of India

Covid: Tamil Nadu logs 28,515 new infections, 53 deaths

CHENNAI: After a month, active cases on Thursday dropped to 2,13,534 from 2,13692 on Wednesday, when the state added 28,515 new cases. However, despite the decrease in fresh and active cases, deaths continued to climb to 53 on Thursday.

ABC News

Queensland records 18 COVID-19 deaths, 9,974 new cases as number of people in hospital continues to decline

Eighteen more COVID-19 deaths are reported in Queensland as the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to decline.

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: Jordan Peterson fact-checked, Covid denialists’ utopia and pandemic sex

Guardian Australia’s summertime round-up of tasty writing as selected by lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman

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