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Covid-19 Inquiry: People encouraged to share pandemic experiences

An online form is available on the inquiry website, while paper forms and a telephone line will be added later this year.

The Independent UK

Long Covid can impair quality of life more than advanced cancers, study says

Some patients’ health-related life quality scores worse than those of people with stage 4 lung cancer

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak reportedly set to accept Boris Johnson’s honours list

PM keen to ‘clear the decks’ within weeks, source says, despite prospect of byelections and scrutiny amid Covid inquiry

The Guardian - UK

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Boris Johnson ‘hosted friend at Chequers’ while Covid rules in place – old

A spokesman for the former prime minister said the visit was ‘entirely lawful’.

The Independent UK

Boris and Carrie Johnson ‘hosted friend at Chequers to plan festival-themed wedding during Covid restrictions’

Indoor gatherings between different households were banned at the time of the stay, except when ‘reasonably necessary’

The Independent UK

IATA sees gradual recovery in Asia-Pacific aviation

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects Asia-Pacific aviation to gradually recover throughout this year, despite some hiccups in the supply chain and a few Covid travel restrictions still being in place.

Bangkok Post

'Widening education gap exposed by Covid lockdown is a time bomb waiting to detonate'

The divide between the haves and have nots at school is growing all the time - so it’s little wonder MPs have warned that some pupils are facing a 'lost decade' of progress if action isn’t taken

Daily Mirror

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Rishi Sunak ‘not worried’ about being ‘embarassed’ by Covid inquiry messages

Rishi Sunak has denied that the Government is resisting the release of messages to the Covid inquiry because he fears embarassment.

Evening Standard

House Republicans quash CDC request for more authorities - Roll Call

Republicans criticized the CDC for not providing enough information on how it plans to overhaul itself in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Roll Call

Boris and Carrie Johnson ‘hosted friend at Chequers during Covid restrictions’

Exclusive: friend ‘helped the couple plan their wedding’ in May 2021 when restrictions on indoor gatherings in place

The Guardian - UK

New Texas law bans COVID mask, vaccine and shutdown mandates, but some Republicans want more

The bill, recently signed by Gov. Greg Abbott and set to take effect Sept. 1, does not restrict pandemic rules by private entities.

The Texas Tribune

Wales' most exciting young rugby players identified as world stage awaits

With the World Rugby U20s Championship returning after four years away, here's some Welsh talent to keep an eye on

Wales Online

Rishi Sunak denies blocking Covid Inquiry seeing his WhatsApps due to embarrassment

The PM denied he's trying to stop WhatsApps being handed over due to embarrassment of what they might contain yet the Cabinet Office is going to court to challenge the inquiry's request for unredacted messages

Daily Mirror

COVID has highlighted the connection between spirituality and vaccine scepticism

In the two and a half years since the first COVID vaccines were administered, anti-vaccination sentiment has grown exponentially. Scepticism about vaccines has been voiced, in particular, in religious communities across the world, from South Korea and New Zealand to South Africa, the UK and prominently among white evangelicals, in…

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The Guardian - UK

Ex-Italian prime minister and health minister cleared of Covid culpability

Court rules that Giuseppe Conte and Roberto Speranza not at fault for 6,000 excess deaths in Bergamo at start of pandemic

The Independent UK

Sunak denies fear of embarrassment behind bid to stop Covid inquiry seeing texts

The Cabinet Office is challenging inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages.

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Genocidal quantities of people died of Covid - two-thirds of them were Disabled'

At the beginning of the pandemic, we wondered whether the vulnerability people felt would translate into better empathy for Disabled people. But it didn’t

Daily Mirror

Rob Burrow's wife uses his own words to say 'government will have blood on its hands'

Rugby legend Rob Burrow's wife Lindsey says delays in funding has left them angry and frustrated, especially after seeing the speed of Covid vaccine research

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Ministers using ‘loophole lawyers’ to obstruct Covid inquiry, says Labour

Angela Rayner asks deputy PM Oliver Dowden why hundreds of thousands of pounds is being spent on legal action

The Independent UK

Ministers accused of obstructing Covid probe with spending on ‘loophole lawyers’

The Cabinet Office is challenging inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages.

The Conversation

Energy generators' soaring revenues highlight deep problems in the way Britain prices its electricity

Twenty-nine billion pounds is a lot of money. It’s how much we estimate the total annual revenue to British electricity generating stations increased as a result of last year’s energy crisis – from £20.5 billion before COVID (in 2018 and 2019) to £49.5 billion in 2022. The indications are that…

The Guardian - US

North Dakota governor Doug Burgum announces Republican presidential bid

Former Microsoft executive and venture capitalist, 66, stands as rank outsider against Trump and DeSantis

Evening Standard

Panic, fear and abuse: my day in the 999 call handlers’ control room

Pressure levels in the ambulance service are at their highest level, with workers quitting, spiralling waiting times and public mental health at crisis point — so how is all of this affecting the people taking the calls? Katie Strick spends 12 hours on the frontline

The Hindu

Older people exhale exponentially more aerosol particles, study says

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was considerable debate over whether aerosols helped the virus move through the air. The new findings suggest disease-transmission models may have to account differently for younger and older people.

The Independent UK

Children ‘can’t focus for more than 10 minutes’ after Covid

Teachers are forced to spend less than 10 minutes on each activity to keep their pupils’ attention

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