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Doing away with COVID isolation rules means increased isolation and risks for people with disability

Mandatory isolation rules for people with COVID end today. Pandemic leave disaster payments will also cease for all workers except casual workers employed in aged care, disability, hospitals, Indigenous health services and hospitals.

The Conversation

'I'm terrified': the end of COVID-19 isolation is not being welcomed by everyone

The last of the remaining public health restrictions against COVID-19 have been dropped.

The Canberra Times

Mandatory COVID-19 isolation is over. Here are the rules now

Rules around mandatory COVID-19 isolation periods have changed. Here's what you need to know.

The Canberra Times

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The Best Travel Stock to Buy Post COVID-19

The global travel industry’s much-awaited post-pandemic recovery is underway. Amid this, Bluegreen Vacations (BVH) has embarked on an operative expansion that might bolster growth. Given the company’s strong fundamentals, this travel stock might be a solid buy now. Read on….

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Thousands of kind-hearted Brits rush to donate blood after amber alert on low stocks

The Mirror has launched a campaign to help recruit the tens of thousands of regular blood donors needed as the NHS recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

Huge numbers of children in Wales are still missing school this term

Pupils in key GCSE exam years and those eligible for free school meals are most likely to be absent, latest official figures show

Wales Online

It's taking more time to cast a ballot in US elections – and even longer for Black and Hispanic voters

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the November 2020 election brought out about 155 million voters. That represented 67% of Americans over 18, and it was the highest voter turnout of any modern election.

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Hong Kong tries to stop brain drain

HONG KONG: Hong Kong is considering easing property taxes and visa restrictions as authorities seek to curb a pandemic brain drain that has threatened the city’s status as an international financial hub.

Bangkok Post

Glasgow to host Santa Dash for first time in three years with brand new route

The iconic Glasgow Santa Dash has been cancelled for the previous few years due to the pandemic, but is making a return this year with a brand new route through Glasgow Green.

Glasgow Live

Public health commissioner: COVID challenges remain, even with relatively low hospitalizations

Kentucky’s public health commissioner says hospitalizations, intensive care admissions, and ventilated patients for COVID are at some of the lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic.

WEKU

Exxon’s Exodus: Employees Have Finally Had Enough of Its Toxic Culture

The 140-year-old oil company is making more money than ever. Yet the pandemic exposed deep cultural problems—and talent is fleeing.

Businessweek

“An inverse tsunami”: How inflation and drought are making it harder to feed West Texans in need

Food banks across Texas are now struggling to keep up with growing demand even more than they were during the pandemic.

The Texas Tribune

Boris Johnson’s Covid laws took away our rights with flick of a pen. Don’t let that happen again

Ministers ruled by decree for more than two years. That’s not true democracy and it remains a risk, says barrister Adam Wagner

The Guardian - UK

COVID took over their high school experience. They want senior year to be different

For the class of 2023, every year of high school was disrupted by the pandemic. NPR talked to five seniors about what that's been like.

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Commentary: The labor market’s double-edged sword

The unemployment rate now matches the pre-pandemic, half-century low of 3.5 percent. But with 2.8 million missing workers, low unemployment is both a blessing and a curse.

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: An NYU professor got fired. Then everyone missed the point

The disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is loosening society’s grip on some stubborn assumptions about different facets of life, especially work and education. The latest: that the hardest college classes are the most rigorous, as exemplified in last week’s hullabaloo over the case of an New York University professor…

Wales Online

Innovative fundraising tournament set to spread rugby fever up and down the country as Women's World Cup kicks off

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, the focus of Wooden Spoon's Vets Fest 22 event centred around supporting mental health projects, with an estimated £1.5 million children and young people needing mental health support as a result of the pandemic

The Independent UK

Covid furlough scheme lost billions of pounds to error and fraud, says watchdog

‘Billions went to people whose incomes increased during the pandemic, and billions more was lost in fraud and error,’ the National Audit Office said.

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The Independent UK

In drawn-out recovery, NYC inches out from COVID's shadow

It's becoming clearer that New York City's recovery from the pandemic will be drawn out and that some aspects of the city's economic ecosystem could be changed for good

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong eyes property tax cut, visa moves to reverse Covid brain drain

Hong Kong is considering easing property taxes and visa restrictions as authorities seek to curb a pandemic brain drain that’s threatened the city’s status as an international financial hub.

The Guardian - UK

Four out of five pupils in England say progress suffered due to Covid

State school pupils twice as likely to feel they have fallen behind than peers in private schools, landmark study finds

Birmingham Post

'You can't put a jumper on a Komodo dragon': Chester Zoo boss on how cost-of-living crisis is hitting popular visitor attraction

The zoo was forced to close for 208 days during the pandemic

Pedestrian.tv

‘Painful To See’: Rising Rents Contributed To A 10% Spike In Homelessness In NSW Since 2020

Homelessness in New South Wales has increased 10% since the pandemic began, a new report found. Meanwhile, rents reached a new record high.

Tribune News Service

ACT test scores drop to 30-year low nationwide; Nevada’s scores are lowest of all

PHOENIX — Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years with Nevada receiving the lowest average composite score in the nation — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic.

Chicago Sun-Times

Give it another shot: Get the latest COVID-19 booster

Only 10% of Chicagoans have gotten their updated COVID-19 booster. Perhaps we need a jolt of that urgency and desperation we once felt to protect ourselves from coronavirus at the height of the pandemic.

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