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Test & Go quarantine-free entry to resume Feb 1

Thailand will resume the 'Test & Go' quarantine waiver for vaccinated arrivals from Feb 1, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Thursday, in response to slowing coronavirus infections.

Bangkok Post

Mum, 36, spent Christmas and New Year in Covid coma and can still barely move

"I prayed every day that Jemma would get better."

Manchester Evening News

Boris Johnson's newborn baby daughter caught Covid 'quite badly', says report

The Prime Minister announced last week that a family member had caught the virus

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Aid Cuts Threaten Hospitals in Syria's Idlib

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib region. The United Nations has…

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'Extremely unfair' policy which saw Canberra nurses forced to take personal leave ahead of COVID leave overhauled

The ACT government has overhauled a Canberra Health Services policy that required frontline health staff who contracted COVID-19 to use personal leave before they were able to access special leave.

ABC News

Omicron is overwhelming Australia's hospital system. 3 emergency measures aim to ease the burden

Public hospitals – never with much spare capacity – have been severely stressed by the latest COVID wave.

The Conversation

‘A lot of anxiety’: childcare centres and parents warn of trouble ahead as Covid spreads

Early childhood educators are pleading for more financial support and rapid tests amid spiralling staff shortages

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Test & Go to return Feb 1

The Test & Go programme will be reintroduced on February 1, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said.

Bangkok Post

El COVID-19 exacerba la crisis del cuidado infantil y los padres están cerca del colapso

Los padres están cansados.

Tribune News Service

France to ease restrictions; Austrian parliament approves mandatory vaccination – as it happened

French PM says from February work from home guidance will be changed and nightclubs reopen; Austria will have Europe’s first universal jabs mandate

The Guardian - UK

Stormont ministers to consider relaxations to Covid restrictions

Business leaders earlier this week urged relaxations describing the impact on trade as ‘very real’.

The Independent UK

A record quarter for filming in LA obscures Hollywood's complicated recovery story

Filming in Los Angeles rose to a record in the fourth quarter of last year as Hollywood recovered from the COVID-19 doldrums.

Los Angeles Times

Tasmania records 927 COVID cases, three in ICU, as national cabinet meets to discuss return-to-school plans

Tasmania records 927 new COVID cases and one more patient in intensive care, as a major hospital in the state's north activates escalation level three amid an outbreak in a ward.

ABC News

Unvaccinated mum woke up from Covid coma without realising she'd given birth

Jo Udeze, 39, was wary of getting her Covid jab while pregnant but was struck down by the virus at 30 weeks - before being placed in an induced coma in Walsall

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West Bengal: Education department to digitise notes to help UG, PG students in Covid times

KOLKATA: The higher education department has decided to digitise the study material generated by under graduate and post graduate faculty members of several colleges across the state during the pandemic when teachers shifting from the traditional offline mode to online method of teaching.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Private hospitals start planned ops on Covid patients

KOLKATA: Close on the heels of government hospitals, several private hospitals, too, have started conducting surgeries and procedures on asymptomatic Covid patients. While some have created a separate ward for mildly symptomatic patients who got admitted for other treatment, others are not even testing them for Covid before conducting procedures…

The Times of India

3rd-wave Covid contrast: Most get well at home but ICUs fill up in Kolkata

KOLKATA: Even as the Covid-19 patient count in general wards is declining gradually in most hospitals in the city, there is a rising trend in positive patient count in Covid critical care units. Some have already hiked their Covid intensive care beds.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation fresh Covid case count shows steady decline over a week, but deaths surge

KOLKATA: From over 1,300 fresh Covid cases daily a week ago, the number in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area has been on a decline, to only 420 new cases reported on Tuesday. However, there has been a sudden surge in Covid deaths with seven reported in the last eight…

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Test & Go for overseas arrivals to be restored, fine-tuned

The Test & Go programme will be reintroduced soon while entry rules under the scheme will be tweaked to allow close monitoring of overseas arrivals' health, said Gen Supoj Malaniyom, head of operations at the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

Glasgow Live

Covid Scotland: 10 ways life will be different in Scotland as most restrictions ease

The First Minister announced this week that a range of restrictions will be easing in Scotland as data suggests the country is over the peak of the omicron wave.

Bangkok Post

Opposition to file general debate motion

The opposition will file a general debate motion against the government in parliament over its failure to address a range of pressing issues -- including the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation and economic malaise -- by early next week.

Manchester Evening News

ALL performances of 'Saturday Night Fever' musical cancelled at Manchester Opera House due to 'Covid related absences'

The hit musical was set to kick off at the theatre, on Quay Street, on January 25

The Guardian - AU

60 Covid deaths nationally as PM says rapid antigen tests not being stockpiled – as it happened

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Manchester Evening News

Six Greater Manchester boroughs have Covid infection rates below national average - as every borough sees rates fall by at least 50 per cent

Rates are continuing to fall across the region, with one borough seeing cases plummet by more than 60 per cent

Irish Mirror

Micheal Martin to announce lifting of Ireland Covid restrictions as Irish pub rules likely to ease

Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan and NPHET will meet on Thursday

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