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Faye Flam: Older Americans need more protection from COVID

COVID is still killing about 500 Americans every day — picking off the oldest, frailest members of our society. About 9 in 10 COVID deaths are now among people over 65.

Tribune News Service

Syd Scientists Reckon They’ve Cracked The Code On Why Some Folks Get COVID Worse Than Others

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India drops Covid test requirement

NEW DELHI: India will drop the pre-departure Covid test requirement for travellers coming from or via Thailand, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said, as Covid-19 infections have fallen sharply globally.

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‘We fetishised being young – it’s just stupid!’: Judi Dench and Richard Eyre on ageing, Covid and saving the NHS

Shot in 2021, a film of Allelujah, Alan Bennett’s 2018 play set on a geriatric ward, is released next month. How relevant does it remain? Its stars, including Jennifer Saunders and Bally Gill, share their thoughts during production – and more than a year later

The Guardian - UK

The last tobacconist: contraband and cost of living close Ipswich institution

As MW Ashton, where smokers have gone for 77 years, prepares to shut its doors, its owners bemoan how suspected smuggling has affected competition

The Guardian - UK

India to drop pre-departure COVID tests for travellers from China, other countries

India will drop the pre-departure COVID test requirement for travellers coming from or via China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and Japan from Monday, the health ministry said, as COVID-19 infections have fallen sharply globally.

Reuters

Seoul lifts visa limits on short-term travelers from China

South Korea says it will remove the entry restrictions it placed on short-term travelers from China since the start of the year as officials see the COVID-19 situation in that country as stabilizing South Korea in early January stopped issuing most short-term visas at its consulates in China, citing concerns…

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‘Secrecy the priority’: Guantanamo battling COVID outbreak

Lawyers say the ‘massive’ outbreak puts already unwell detainees at further risk in camp where medical care is poor.

Al Jazeera

ACT records 401 COVID-19 cases: weekly report

There were no COVID-related deaths recorded in the past week.

The Canberra Times

South Korea lifts visa curbs on Chinese travellers, Beijing considers similar move

South Korea plans to resume issuing short-term visas for travellers from China on Saturday after China improved its COVID-19 situation, Seoul officials said on Friday.

Reuters

NHS crisis hitting women as gynaecology waiting list rises 36% in the North East

The number of women and trans people waiting for gynaecological procedures shot up in 2022

Chronicle Live

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.

ABC News

Are chemtrails being used to vaccinate Australians secretly against COVID-19? CheckMate investigates

A decade-old claim suggesting Australia has approved vaccines administered "via air" has resurfaced with a COVID-19 twist.

ABC News

The world needs to ‘calm down’ about the risk of a new COVID variant emerging from China, the country’s former CDC chief says

A new study from China found no evidence of new variants among those sick with COVID in Beijing between Nov. 14 and Dec. 20. But it only examined a few hundred cases, some experts point out, calling it "hardly" representative.

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Bangkok Post

Confidence at 26-month high

Consumer confidence rose to the highest level in 26 months in January, driven by the economic recovery, a surge in foreign tourist arrivals and the easing of the pandemic.

Inverse

A Promising Covid-19 Antiviral Cuts Hospitalizations in Half — Will Americans Get It?

We may have a new, versatile antiviral to add to the arsenal, according to a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The New Daily

Madonna King: How heartbreaking Turkey earthquake photo reminded me to pause

Big news events now flash by us, from one to the next, leaving a list of heroes and villains. And the bar keeps rising.

The Guardian - AU

‘Crazy interesting’ findings by Australian researchers may reveal key to Covid immunity

University of Sydney scientists have found a receptor protein which ‘acts a bit like molecular velcro, in that it sticks to the spike of the virus’

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The Guardian - UK

No one wants masks, but we still need them to keep Covid at bay

Letters: Doctor Kelly Fearnley and an immunocompromised patient respond to Dr Jack Pickard’s letter calling for an end to the requirement for mask-wearing in all clinical areas

The Independent UK

Knife crime on rise due to ‘teenagers made vulnerable by pandemic’

The number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales in 2021/22 was the highest on record for 76 years.

Capital & Main

The Untold Story of COVID’s Impact on California’s Mental Health

The pandemic continues to bring stress upon those in the state who can least afford it.

AAP

Natural immune receptor found to block COVID-19

Australian scientists have found a natural immune receptor in the body that blocks infection from COVID-19 and could help prevent future pandemics.

The Times of India

No pre-departure Covid test and air suvidha for people coming from China, 5 other nations from February 13

NEW DELHI: Passengers coming to India from or via Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and China will from 11 am on Monday (February 13) neither require a negative report from a pre-departure Covid test, nor need to upload self-health declaration on “air suvidha” portal.

Daily Mirror

Estate agent quit UK in lockdown to start £24m property empire on 'new Maldives'

Richard Ashby was earning £200,000 a year selling exclusive apartments in Westminster and Mayfair to rich investors, but that all changed when covid hit the UK and lockdowns loomed

The Independent UK

Most disaster giving goes to relief efforts, not rebuilding

The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated a long-running pattern in giving by foundations and charities for health and natural disasters, a new Chronicle analysis of nine years of data show

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