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The Scottish Labour leader claimed the SNP was “known for their lack of transparency” while campaigning in Rutherglen.

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Labour leader Ivana Bacik, meanwhile, suggested that the underspend indicated that Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien was “out of his depth”

The World Health Organization chief pressed China on Thursday to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged.

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In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic precautions have been largely abandoned, mask mandates in healthcare settings do little to prevent coronavirus infections among patients.

COVID-19 isn’t “just a flu,” with a study of hospital patients finding that the virus was still 60% deadlier than influenza last winter.

Here's a quick wrap of the COVID-19 news and case numbers from each Australian jurisdiction from the past week.

MIAMI — In rare cases, COVID-19 can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus, researchers at the University of Miami Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced Thursday.