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HMRC lost nearly 50% more devices in 2022, nearly 2,000 missing since 2017

IT device losses at HMRC increased by nearly 50% in the space of a year, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests submitted in 2022. Statistics released under the FOI act show that between September 2021 and 2022, HMRC declared 635 lost and stolen devices. SEE MORE HMRC tells…

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COVID-19 Pill Paxlovid Moves Closer to Full FDA Approval

Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from US health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The medication has been used by millions of Americans since the FDA granted it emergency use authorization in late 2021.

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OECD raises global growth forecast but recovery 'fragile'

PARIS: The OECD raised its global economic growth forecast on Friday as inflation eases and China emerges from Covid restrictions, but warned of vulnerabilities as seen in the US bank sector turmoil.

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Company that made over £6million profit from Covid-19 tests collapses into administration

The company also turned over more than £35m

Manchester Evening News

The new trends driving Australian tourism and travellers

As travel returns to normal following COVID new travel habits are creating fresh opportunities, challenges and growth within the sector.

The New Daily

Covid-19 testing firm Circular 1 Health enters administration

The company made over £6m in profit during its first year

Birmingham Post

Allison Arwady, City Hall’s calming voice on COVID, hopes to stay on under next mayor

Chicago’s public health commissioner and coronavirus point person says she doesn’t get recognized as much as she used to. But that’s OK with her, especially given the “scary mail at my house” she’d get.

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Man whose anorexia 'nearly killed him' waited two years for NHS help before going private

Charlie struggled with crippling anorexia for years before he finally sought private help. He opens up about being ignored by NHS clinics and wants to challenge the sigma around men with eating disorders

Daily Mirror

Doctors in Chicago, elsewhere aim to unravel long COVID’s mysteries, but ‘science takes years’

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center say they already know enough to believe that vaccination likely helps prevent lasting symptoms seen with long COVID.

Chicago Sun-Times

COVID-19 cases in South Australia jump, signalling start of next wave

South Australia has recorded a 37 per cent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases reported in the past week.

ABC News

Low-income Americans face a ‘hunger cliff’ as Snap benefits are cut

The US food assistance program offered expanded benefits during the Covid emergency, but they ended last month

The Guardian - US

Editorial: Florida’s surgeon general picks a fight with the CDC, and DeSantis scores political points

The feds took on Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo last week in a highly critical letter responding to the state’s top doctor’s fear-mongering claims about COVID vaccine risks.

Tribune News Service

Crypto-linked bank failures fuel regulation debate

LONDON: The global cryptocurrency industry has been slammed by setbacks, scandals and high-profile failures in recent months, sparking a regulatory rush to protect consumers from fraud and scams.

Bangkok Post

Are flu cases already 100 times higher than last year? Here's what we really know about the 2023 flu season

Alarming headlines and media coverage have said we’ve had 100 times as many influenza cases in the first two months of 2023 compared with the same time the previous year.

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Visitors to the UK’s leading attractions down 25% on pre-Covid numbers

Perfect storm of Covid, Brexit, energy prices and cost of living crisis blamed for disappointing figures

Tribune News Service

Energy Department briefs senators on COVID-19 origins

WASHINGTON — Department of Energy and intelligence community officials briefed members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on classified information related to COVID-19’s origins Thursday but offered no definitive revelations, according to lawmakers.

ABC News

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

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

Orlando Sentinel

Under fire, DeSantis, Ladapo keep trashing COVID-19 vaccines

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the wake of federal health officials’ harshest criticism yet of their anti-COVID vaccine views, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Gov. Ron DeSantis persisted Thursday in claiming the “mRNA jabs” are worthless at best and even dangerous, despite an abundance of evidence to the contrary.

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Women are leading Covid recovery

Three years after the pandemic was formally declared, the world is now firmly in the recovery stage. But the huge potential contribution of women's leadership is still being undervalued, under-resourced, or overlooked altogether.

The Independent UK

COVID-19 pill Paxlovid moves closer to full FDA approval

U.S. health advisersare backing the continued use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid, saying it remains an important option for adults at high risk of severe illness

Daily Record

Long Covid could leave people with 'face blindness', new study claims

A US study has found links between Long Covid and prosopagnosia, with one participant suffering from 'highly selective problems'.

ABC News

Queensland schools aren't required to notify families if a student tests positive for COVID-19. Should they be?

Govinda Lange said he received notifications from his son's school about chicken pox and head lice, but schools aren't required to tell parents when a student tests positive for COVID-19.

Daily Mirror

These three NHS 'Rabble Rousers' are fighting for Long Covid sick pay

A recent report by MPs says the UK is 'out of step with other countries' in not recognising Long Covid as an industrial illness

Evening Standard

How first Covid wave devastated East London’s Somali community

New report concludes that poor housing, insecure employment and late lockdown contributed to high number of deaths in community

Roll Call

Energy department briefs senators on COVID-19 origins - Roll Call

The briefing follows the news that DOE now concludes with “low confidence” that the virus more likely originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.

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