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Editorial: As grim pandemic milestone arrives, GOP still plays politics with the crisis

Even as America topped a million coronavirus deaths on Monday, congressional Republicans continued playing games with vaccine funding, holding it up over an unrelated immigration debate. The same short-sighted politics are also preventing the U.S. from pledging funding to an international effort that would ultimately help prevent resurgences here. These…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A million have died of Covid-19 in America. How did this happen?

One million people should never have to die from another pandemic. Not in America, a country built to do so much better

The Guardian - US

Japan's economy shrinks amid Covid-19 curbs and rising prices

Japan's GDP fell at an annualised rate of 1 percent in the first three months of this year as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus hampered consumer spending. Rising commodity prices also weighed on businesses in the world's third-largest economy. Plus, as unemployment remains stable in France at 7.3 percent,…

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Wirral’s Covid-19 cases down in big step forward on virus

It is the lowest infection rate recorded in Wirral since last June

Liverpool Echo

Spain extends Covid-19 travel rules - holidaymakers urged to check entry requirements

Holidaymakers heading to Spain should check entry requirements before flying as rules are extended

Chronicle Live

Tube passenger numbers return to levels not seen since before Covid

Almost three million journeys a day are being made on the Tube - a level not seen since before the pandemic.

Evening Standard

Kim Jong-Un Prioritizes Missile Launch Over COVID-19 Crisis As Joe Biden Gears For South Korea Visit

As COVID-19 rapidly sweeps through North Korea, with cases inching closer to crossing the 2 million mark, the country's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un has other priorities.

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Labor to consider new national Covid strategy to reduce deaths

Anthony Albanese says pandemic still ‘major issue’, but Scott Morrison says Australians want to ‘put that in the rear-vision mirror’

The Guardian - AU

Edinburgh Airport: How long do you need on your passport to travel to Spain?

Spain passport rules for Brits explained as new requirements after Brexit have left some holidaymakers confused - Scots are currently travelling in their thousands to Seville for the Europa League final

Edinburgh Live

Rules Irish holidaymakers need to know before travelling to Canary Islands, Lanzarote and Tenerife

It's important to note what travel requirements are currently in place so you don't get caught out last minute

Dublin Live

Some short-term benefit of additional booster dose of mRNA vaccine in health workers: WHO

Interval of 4-6 months since completion of the primary series of the vaccine could be considered for a first booster, says the WHO

The Hindu

The inspirational nurse who has worked every Christmas Day since 1982

Karen Davies has been awarded a top award for her services to the social care sector

Manchester Evening News

'I weigh 35 stone and I'm terrified I'll die waiting for weight loss surgery'

38-year-old Laura Davies from Preston is too big to fit in her own bathtub and after missing out on weight loss surgery once she's now terrified she'll die waiting for it

Daily Mirror

North Korea reports uptick in suspected Covid-19 cases

North Korea on Wednesday reported 232,880 new cases of fever and another six deaths as leader Kim Jong Un accused officials of “immaturity” and “slackness” in their early handling of the COVID-19 outbreak ravaging across the unvaccinated nation.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Oil Prices Edge Up on China Demand Recovery Expectations, Tight Stocks

Oil prices edged up on Wednesday on expectations that easing COVID-19 restrictions in China will push up demand and as industry data showed drawdowns in US crude inventories. Brent crude was up 23 cents, or 0.2%, at $112.16 a barrel at 0633 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude…

Reuters

When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them

It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.

The Hindu

India’s ‘other’ COVID vaccines: The status of under-trial, approved and unused jabs

While Covishield and Covaxin lead the Covid-19 vaccination effort in India, other vaccines, too, are under development or remain unused after approval from the Centre

Newcastle Herald

Belmont hub to close its doors as demand decreases for COVID vaccines

As demand has decreased, there is no need for a mass vaccination clinic and the Belmont hub will close.

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Burberry Pins its Outlook to China's COVID Recovery

British luxury brand Burberry said its outlook for the year ahead depended on how quickly China, its biggest market, recovered from COVID-19 lockdowns, after meeting expectations for sales and operating profit for its 2022 financial year. The company reported a 23% rise in revenue to 2.83 billion pounds ($3.52 billion)…

Benzinga

Kim Jong-Un Slams Officials For 'Immaturity,' 'Slackness' In Fighting North Korea's COVID-19 Crisis

The Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, has bashed his country's response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as the virus sweeps through the hermit kingdom rapidly.

Daily Mirror

Death row inmate has execution for child rape and murder delayed by Covid clause

Virgil Delano Presnell Jr, 68, who abducted two girls as they walked home from school in Cobb County, near Atlanta, in 1976, was due to be executed on Tuesday but has had the date delayed

Dynamite News

COVID-19: India records 1,829 new cases, 33 deaths

India recorded a single-day rise of 1,829 new coronavirus infections, raising the tally to 4,31,27,199, while the active cases have declined to 15,647, on Wednesday.

Reuters

U.S. warns North Korea could greet Biden with nuclear, missile tests

U.S intelligence shows there could be a North Korean nuclear test, or a long-range missile test, or both, before, during or after President Joe Biden's trip to South Korea and Japan starting this week, the U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, said on Wednesday.

ABC News

COVID-19 density and capacity restrictions in Tasmania to be scrapped from Friday

ABC News

WA records 16,253 new COVID-19 cases as staff shortages impact Federal Election 2022

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