The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Australian Covid isolation period cut to five days for people without symptoms

Changes apply from 9 September with Anthony Albanese confirming reduced pandemic leave payments will continue for those in self-quarantine

The Guardian - AU · Aug 31, 2022

Brickbat: Wear Protection

Western University, a public university in London, Ontario, has announced that all students and employees and some visitors to campus must be fully vaccinated and have at least one booster for COVID-19. The school is also requiring that students and faculty wear masks in classrooms. Some students are protesting the…

Reason · Aug 31, 2022

Michael Hiltzik: GOP ratchets up the hypocrisy in opposing Biden's student debt plan

The hypocrisy meter has been stuck at the high end as Republicans and conservatives fill the airwaves and social media to decry President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness proposal.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 31, 2022

COVID-19 isolation period shortened to five days

People who test positive for COVID-19 will only be required to isolate for five days except in vulnerable settings following a meeting of national cabinet.

ABC News · Aug 31, 2022

Livingston midfielder eyes trip to Hampden after missing out at Hibs

The Belgian ace saw a date at the National Stadium fail to materialise due to covid and is desperate to get there with Livingston.

Daily Record · Aug 31, 2022

I'm A Celebrity hosts Ant & Dec spotted 'sky diving' as ITV show approaches Australian return

The Geordie duo have been busy shooting a promotional advert for the new season, which is set to return to Australia after two years in Wales due to Coronavirus restrictions.

Chronicle Live · Aug 31, 2022

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds press conference after national cabinet — as it happened

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says national cabinet has agreed to remove mandatory mask wearing on domestic flights, while pandemic leave disaster payment eligibility will be changed to reflect the new isolation period — as it happened.

ABC News · Aug 31, 2022

WHO issues new Covid-19 warning ahead of incoming flu season as 'surge' expected

“What we’re expecting to see in the autumn and winter periods coming up in the European region is one or more waves of increased Sars-CoV-2"

Irish Mirror · Aug 31, 2022

SA records 16 cases of new BA.2.75 subvariant, as AMA pushes to keep seven-day isolation rules

The head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) in South Australia says the organisation is "already concerned" about the BA.2.75 subvariant of COVID-19 "on the horizon", but the federal health department says there has only been 150 recorded cases in the country so far.

ABC News · Aug 31, 2022

UK museums’ rising energy costs could hamper ‘warm banks’ plan

Museum directors ‘in absolute despair’ at latest blow after Covid decline in revenues

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022