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. AAP · Aug 31, 2022
FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 Booster Shots But does everyone really need to get boosted? Reason · Aug 31, 2022
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. ABC News · Aug 31, 2022
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. Inverse · Aug 31, 2022
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. AAP · Aug 31, 2022
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 The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022
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" Daily Mirror · Aug 31, 2022
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 The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022
Covid-19 alert level downgraded as number of cases fall The alert level has moved from three to two. The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022
Terrified mum-of-four suffers flashbacks after being put on Covid ventilator while heavily pregnant Mechelle Smith insists doctors saved her and her son after she became seriously unwell. Daily Record · Aug 31, 2022
Government lowers UK Covid-19 alert level The chief medical officers of the UK nations have jointly recommended that the Covid alert level moves from level three to level two Manchester Evening News · Aug 31, 2022
‘He looked ridiculous – and couldn’t style it out’: photographers pick their best Boris Johnson shot Stuck on a zipwire, waking up to Covid, knocking a child to the ground … as Boris Johnson steps down, photographers remember how they captured a showman whose clowning often fell flat The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022
FDA clears way for boosters targeted at latest COVID variants COVID-19 boosters from Moderna Inc. and the partnership of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE that are tailored to the latest COVID-19 omicron variants got U.S. regulatory clearance, a move toward additional protection as concern grows about potential new waves in the fall and winter. Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022
FDA authorizes first revamp of COVID vaccines to target omicron The new shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants that most people are catching now. WEKU · Aug 31, 2022
Benzinga · Aug 31, 2022 ATRenew Sees Better Times Ahead in Evolving Role as 'Recycler for All Seasons' Key Takeaways: ATRenew forecast 30% year-on-year revenue growth in the current quarter, as its business starts to rebound from a sharp slowdown caused by China’s strict Covid control measures
Salon · Aug 31, 2022 Fauci quits: Right wins war on science The right's attack on science is the most dangerous of its cynical power plays. Fauci is just collateral damage
Bangkok Post · Aug 31, 2022 Japan to allow non-guided group tours from September Japan will allow non-guided package tours from all countries from Sept 7 and more than double the number of people it permits to enter daily as it further rolls back some of the strictest Covid-19 border controls among major economies.
The New Daily · Aug 31, 2022 Isolation period cut, with calls for Albanese to further ease COVID-19 rules National cabinet will cut the COVID-19 isolation period from seven to five days as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces calls to ease more restrictions.
Roll Call · Aug 31, 2022 FDA greenlights new COVID-19 booster despite limited data - Roll Call The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization to Pfizer and Moderna for updated COVID-19 booster shots.
Wales Online · Aug 31, 2022 Covid-19 inquiry into decisions made by Boris Johnson's government opens It will look particularly at the early days of the crisis
Daily Mirror · Aug 31, 2022 'Big cat' sighting by UK dogwalker next to a stream could be linked to drought Big cats - an animal which is bigger than a large dog and similar in appearance to a puma or panther - have been venturing further since Covid lockdowns, said a wildlife expert
The National (Scotland) · Aug 31, 2022 UK Covid inquiry opens investigation into Scottish Government THE UK-wide inquiry into the handling of the Covid pandemic has opened investigations into decisions made by the Scottish Government, focusing on…
Manchester Evening News · Aug 31, 2022 Covid-19 inquiry begins work examining government’s response to pandemic The inquiry will then look at decisions taken throughout 2020 until February 2022
Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022 Editorial: Extend, fund free COVID tests The COVID-19 virus's course and evolution remain unpredictable. But this far into the pandemic, there are some safe assumptions.
ABC News · Aug 31, 2022 National cabinet is cutting the COVID-19 isolation period from seven to five days. But there are exceptions to the new rules People with COVID-19 will only have to isolate for five days from next week, but there are a few caveats to the new regulations.