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Sydney's Akasha Brewing hops into The Edwards

NEWCASTLE'S rapidly growing reputation as a craft beer hot spot will continue in 2023 with Akasha Brewing Company announcing plans to take over The Edwards. The Five Dock-based independent brewery will continue operating the popular Newcastle West venue as a restaurant and bar, but also has plans to build a…

Newcastle Herald

Australia to require negative COVID tests for travellers from China

Australia said on Sunday that travellers from China will have to provide negative COVID-19 test results from Jan. 5, joining a growing number of nations that have implemented similar restrictions as cases surge in China.

Reuters

COVID test required of arrivals from China

Travellers from China will need to undergo mandatory testing for COVID-19 before boarding a flight to Australia, the health minister has announced.

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Australian government announces COVID-19 testing requirements for travellers from China from January 5

Australia is to introduce COVID-19 test requirements for arrivals from China — after skyrocketing COVID-19 case numbers — joining a range of other countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

ABC News

Taiwan president offers China help to deal with COVID surge

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Sunday offered to provide China with "necessary assistance" to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases, but said Chinese military activities near the island were not beneficial to peace and stability.

Reuters

COVID-19 on uptick in Missouri, but flu on decline

ST. LOUIS — COVID-19 cases are on the uptick in Missouri, even as flu cases appear to be tapering off.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

World welcomes 2023 and leaves a stormy year behind

The world welcomed the new year with a packed party in Times Square and fireworks soaring above European capitals, while hoping for an end to the war in Ukraine and a return to post-COVID normality in Asia.

Reuters

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'Living Nostradamus' warns Antichrist will return in 2023 to mark 'beginning of the end'

Brazilian Athos Salomé, dubbed the 'Living Nostradamus' for his prophecies over the years including over Covid and the Ukraine invasion, has now warned that the Antichrist will return in 2023

Daily Mirror

Happy New Year as Scotland welcomes 2023

It's the first time since the pandemic that people have been able to party on Hogmanay in Edinburgh.

Daily Record

COVID-19-mutation risk drives rush to test travelers from China

COVID-19 testing requirements for passengers traveling from China highlight mounting concerns about the potential for undetected new strains of the virus spawned by the country’s burgeoning outbreak.

Tribune News Service

London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks back in full as world celebrates start of 2023

It comes after the last two New Year’s Eve displays were cancelled due to the pandemic

Evening Standard

Canada to impose mandatory COVID tests for travelers from China

Canada on Saturday said it will require travelers on Canadian-bound flights departing China to test negative for COVID-19.

Reuters

China arrivals to skip virus testing

The Covid-19 screening test for arrivals from China at their points of entry might not be necessary for the time being although their vaccination documents will be checked, say communicable disease experts.

Bangkok Post

Thousands celebrate the new year in Wuhan amidst China's COVID wave

Thousands gathered in central Wuhan on Saturday night to count down to the start of what many hoped would be a much better year after a "tough" 2022 filled with lockdowns and in December a major new outbreak of the coronavirus.

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Los Angeles Times

Workers in LA County should wear masks indoors to prevent COVID surge, officials say

LOS ANGELES — Faced with the possibility of another COVID-19 surge stemming from parties and travel over the winter holiday season, Los Angeles County health officials are urging workers and students to wear masks in indoor public settings for at least 10 days once they return to work and school.

ABC News

The regional suburbs in Australia that have recorded the largest value growth since COVID-19 hit

Figures show the biggest changes in values for houses and units in regional areas since the pandemic hit.

ABC News

What will Australia's fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic look like?

On the first day of 2023, experts weigh in on how far Australia — and the world — has come since the pandemic began, and what the next frontiers are going into the new year.

The Canberra Times

What will happen with the COVID pandemic in 2023?

More COVID variants have made the virus more unpredictable.

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The Independent UK

New Year’s Eve - live: LA and US west coast ring in 2023 as celebrations continue

For many countries around the world this was the first New Year’s Eve without any Covid restrictions since 2019

Bristol Post

Covid cases in Bristol area 'more than 90,000' as 2022 comes to an end

Despite the government stopping Covid case reporting over Christmas, the Zoe Health Study has revealed a stark reality of coronavirus infection in Bristol as we head into 2023.

Daily Mirror

World Cup helps pubs raise bar this Christmas with booming sales 'best since 2014'

The World Cup and freedom from Covid social distancing helped sales rocket - but it wasn't all good news with restaurants and gastropubs being badly hit and losing billions

The Times of India

Raring to go, 30 'Nightingales' commissioned in Indian army

LUCKNOW: Four-years of rigorous training and countless hours of service as under trainee to patients including in remote villages, military hospital and even during covid pandemic finally paid off for 30 young women nursing cadets on Saturday, after they were commissioned in the Indian army as nursing officer with an…

Manchester Evening News

Drinkers evacuated and pub forced to close on one of busiest nights of the year after devastating fire

Firefighters rushed to The Railway in Bolton yesterday

Manchester Evening News

The law over setting off fireworks on New Year's Eve

Breaking firework laws can leave you with a £5,000 fine

The Independent UK

Covid tests for arrivals from China defended by Tory health committee chairman

Tory MP Steve Brine said the measures were only necessary because Chinese authorities would not share data with other countries.

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