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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Pregnant people targeted with false vaccine claims on social media

The NHS ‘strongly recommends’ the Covid vaccine if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding

The Independent UK

Badminton: Hong Kong Open cancelled due to COVID-19 quarantine restrictions

Macau Open, a Super 300 event scheduled for November 1-6, has also been called off for the third consecutive year

The Hindu

Serious Covid case numbers declining

Small waves of new Covid-19 cases are being seen locally and globally but the number of severely ill patients and fatalities is not rising, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

Bangkok Post

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Five best new luxury wellness hotels in Asia, one in Chiang Mai

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the luxury hotel industry has embraced an expanded definition of wellness, integrating it into all aspects of guests' stays, from interior design to spa offerings and a roster of dedicated wellness programmes designed to promote a healthy body and mind.

Bangkok Post

China locks down 21 million in Chengdu in COVID-19 outbreak

Some 21 million people have been ordered to stay home in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu following a spike in COVID-19 cases

The Independent UK

Victoria lifts work from home recommendation but public transport mask mandate to stay

State government cites falling Covid case numbers and the end of winter as it announces decision

The Guardian - AU

Qld to move away from public health orders

The Queensland government says it will move away from managing the COVID-19 pandemic with public health orders "unless it is absolutely necessary".

AAP

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Zambia wins IMF board approval for $1.3 billion loan program

Zambia won International Monetary Fund approval for a $1.3 billion, 38-month loan program on Wednesday, a crucial step in the southern African country's quest to restructure its debts and rebuild an economy ravaged by mismanagement and COVID-19.

Reuters

White House to encourage COVID boosters, flu shot this fall

The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot

The Independent UK

Court case challenges some COVID fines

A test case has been launched in the NSW Supreme Court challenging COVID-19 fines handed to people who gathered to protest in breach of public health orders.

AAP

Cubs’ Jeremiah Estrada debuted one year after life-threatening battle with COVID-19

Reliever Jeremiah Estrada threw a hitless inning in his debut against the Blue Jays on Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brisbane biotech firm Ellume puts Australian arm into administration

Ellume rose to prominence last year when it announced a $300 million deal to provide COVID-19 home test kits to the US Department of Defense.

ABC News

Queensland in 'new stage' of COVID-19 pandemic, changes to vaccine mandate, reliance on health directives and reporting flagged

Health Minister Yvette D'Ath announces daily reporting of COVID statistics will be wound back and a blanket COVID-19 vaccine mandate direction for private health care workers will be lifted.

ABC News

Another COVID death in the ACT

The ACT recorded 199 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Wednesday.

The Canberra Times

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

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong’s ‘yellow’ companies see persecution in COVID crackdown

Pro-democracy businesses in the city say they face harsher scrutiny under pandemic restrictions.

Daily Mirror

'Whoever takes over as PM next week will inherit a country in its sick bed'

Preventing the disaster about to descend on Britain requires radical and bold action - that must include using the state to support those in the greatest need

AAP

Mitchell firing as Demetriou sidelined

Assistant coach Ben Hornby is excited to take charge of South Sydney, with Jason Demetriou forced to stay at home after contracting COVID-19.

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Reason

FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 Booster Shots

But does everyone really need to get boosted?

ABC News

Japan endures its worst COVID-19 wave, as strict entry rules deter tourists

Japan, which was praised for keeping its coronavirus cases and deaths largely under control earlier in the pandemic, is experiencing its most severe coronavirus wave so far and has become a hotspot for the virus in East Asia.

Inverse

What are the side effects of the new Covid-19 bivalent booster?

Last week, the FDA authorized both Pfizer and Moderna's Omicron-specific jabs. Experts say to get them as soon as they are available to you.

AAP

Doctors query advice on shorter COVID iso

COVID-19 needs to be treated differently to other infectious diseases, doctors say, as changes are made to the isolation period.

The Independent UK

WHO: New COVID cases, deaths keep falling nearly everywhere

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World Health Organization described as a “welcome decline” at a media briefing on Wednesday

Daily Mirror

UK Covid alert level downgraded from level 3 to 2 as cases fall and Omicron 'subsides'

A level two alert means that "Covid-19 is in general circulation but direct Covid-19 healthcare pressures and transmission are declining or stable"

The Independent UK

Unvaccinated cadets ordered off Coast Guard Academy campus

The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate

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