The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Feds rebuke Florida surgeon general’s advice to young men on COVID vaccine

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday responded to the results of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s analysis of COVID-19 data that he says point to a risk for some men who get the shot.

Orlando Sentinel · Oct 10, 2022

England’s social care workforce shrinks for first time in 10 years

Experts say loss of 50,000 workers exposes ‘absolute crisis’ facing system still reeling from impact of Covid and Brexit

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2022

Covid: hopes for Oxford nasal vaccine dealt blow after poor trial results

Scientists ditch plans to develop nasal spray version of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in its current form

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2022

How should we manage COVID without rules? Keep testing and stay home when positive

Changes to Australia’s isolation rules, which come into effect on Friday October 14, remove the mandate for people to isolate if they test positive for COVID.

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022

COVID skewed journey-to-work census data. Here's how city planners can make the best of it

Australian cities are slowly recovering from the COVID pandemic. Travel across cities is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. Google Mobility show only a 14% drop in travel to work across Victoria and 12% drop across New South Wales compared to pre-COVID results.

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022

NSW recorded more than 3.4 million COVID-19 cases since end of Delta lockdown

A year ago today, Sydney emerged from its longest lockdown after the government lost control of the Delta outbreak more than 100 days earlier. More than 3.44 million cases have been recorded in NSW in the first year of "COVID normal".

ABC News · Oct 10, 2022

Scottish Tories attack ‘skewed priorities’ in Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote speech

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross said the SNP conference speech was ‘narrow’ and ‘independence-obsessed’.

The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2022

Nearly a fifth of Australia’s Covid vaccine stock binned amid warning of fresh wave of cases

Dwindling demand for booster shots causes concern immunisation gaps leaving country open to new variants

The Guardian - AU · Oct 10, 2022

Tyneside alarm firm Verisure creates 120 new jobs after expansion at Quorum Park

The firm has already taken on 650 people in the North East and will reach 1,200 in the next three years

Birmingham Post · Oct 10, 2022

The magic of touch: how deafblind people taught us to 'see' the world differently during COVID

As someone who is severely deaf and completely blind, I felt overnight I had lost a third sense, my sense of touch. To make matters worse, people around me faded away – voices had become so quiet that there was an eerie soundlessness all around. Nothing was making sense any…

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022