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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Nicola Sturgeon urges Scots to get latest covid vaccine booster shot

The First Minister is part of the over-50s group currently eligible for a covid vaccine booster

Daily Record

Moderna’s bivalent shot boosts antibodies against latest omicron strains in trial

Moderna Inc.’s booster shot of its bivalent vaccine sharply increased antibody levels against recent COVID-19 strains when compared to a fourth dose of its original immunization.

Tribune News Service

Cambodian PM Hun Sen says positive for Covid after hosting Asean

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he had tested positive for Covid-19, after hosting more than a dozen world leaders including US President Joe Biden at a summit in Phnom Penh.

Bangkok Post

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Everyone's talking about COVID-19 again, here’s what's happening in Australia and what you need to know

Multiple states and territories around the nation have signalled a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalisations.

ABC News

‘Reputational damage’: RBA admits failure in COVID interest rates outlook

The Reserve Bank has admitted its prediction that interest rates would be unlikely to rise until 2024 wasn't "well suited" to COVID.

The New Daily

'Gain of function' research can create experimental viruses. In light of COVID, it should be more strictly regulated – or banned

The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks at environmental threats and risks in light of the COVID pandemic. It analyses links between human infectious diseases and nature and what we know about how diseases (zoonoses) can transfer from animals to humans.

The Conversation

Pfizer's new Omicron-specific COVID booster to be available in Australia from next month

Another bivalent COVID-19 vaccine will be available to eligible Australians as a third and fourth booster, as case numbers climb.

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‘Next-generation’ COVID vaccine with double protection approved as cases spike

Medical authorities have approved a new COVID vaccine for use in Australia that offers protection from two strains of the virus.

The New Daily

Experts rule out third COVID booster shot

Despite a spike in COVID-19 cases, the country's leading vaccine advisory body says Australians don't yet need a fifth dose of vaccine.

AAP

NHS staff ‘petrified’ of how bad winter will be at hospitals in England

Doctors and nurses fear they will be unable to cope with flu, Covid and cost of living crisis, bosses say

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Raab was warned about his behaviour by top Foreign Office official

Exclusive: fresh claims that Simon McDonald relayed staff complaints to Raab when he was foreign secretary

The Guardian - UK

Who is Matt Hancock? From health secretary to I’m a Celebrity

From Covid press briefings to the Australian jungle

The Independent UK

Council paid out thousands amid jump in complaints

Last year the council was "congratulated" on its complaint numbers, but the head of customer service said that was because people were "involved in other stuff"

Liverpool Echo

What is BN.1? Meet the newest Omicron spawn being tracked by the CDC

The CDC just singled out the new variant on Friday—and it already has nine known child and grandchild variants.

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The Canberra Times

ACT parents reveal how children still suffer after COVID lockdowns

"I can't even begin to explain here all the complex and detrimental impacts the school closure has had on her."

Newcastle Herald

COVID surge for Christmas: 12 nursing homes battle outbreaks

Hunter New England Health's Dr David Durrheim says the coming "steep uphill" wave could peak before Christmas, filling hospital beds with virus patients.

Newcastle Herald

Are young aspiring teachers measured the wrong way?

Brilliance does not necessarily create a great teacher, particularly in early learning.

The Guardian - UK

UK criticised for ‘disastrous decision’ to cut health aid pledge by almost a third

Charities say reduced donations to the Global Fund will lead to the preventable deaths of up to 1.5 million people

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Birmingham Post

Tom Joule – who started Joules selling wellies at country fairs – hopes brand will live on as administrators called in

Comes as one analyst says, ‘Next and Frasers look logical suitors given their relatively robust position’

Tribune News Service

Thousands of experts hired to aid public health departments are losing their jobs

As COVID-19 raged, roughly 4,000 highly skilled epidemiologists, communication specialists and public health nurses were hired by a nonprofit tied to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to plug the holes at battered public health departments on the front lines.

Daily Mirror

Olivia Attwood reveals how she'd have handled Matt Hancock on I'm A Celebrity

Olivia Attwood slammed Matt Hancock for 'snogging' his political aide while others were following social distancing during lockdown, as she appeared on This Morning to give her first TV interview following her jungle exit

Inverse

Do Covid-19 tests expire? Here's the truth about the home kits

In January of this year, the FDA released a list of updated expiration dates for different at-home rapid Covid-19 tests.

The Guardian - UK

It’s too easy for the west to see North Korea as a WTF curiosity. We need to do better

As viral stories about the hermitic country abound, North Koreans face devastating hunger and Covid clampdowns, says Guardian leader writer Tania Branigan

Nottingham Post

Mum's warning to parents after finding 'weird rash' on baby son

Catie took her son to A&E where they tested him

Tribune News Service

Baby boomers helping lead travel’s resurgence

Baby boomers — the retirement-age generation affectionately nicknamed the “grey tsunami” — are surging back to travel now that the 2-year-long tide of COVID-19 concerns is receding.

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