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Ian aftermath even harder to fix with supply chain tattered

The difficult job of rebuilding communities pummeled by Hurricane Ian is expected to be made even worse by a problem that’s lingered since the early days of the pandemic: snarled supply chains.

Tribune News Service

Hardship for Brazil's poor may cost Bolsonaro election

Brazil’s presidential election will be decided by tens of millions of poor people, and they look set to eject incumbent Jair Bolsonaro from office

The Independent UK

Credit card spending jumps to £700m in August as people borrow for essentials

Net savings remain unchanged at a figure below pre-pandemic level in sign of stress on family budgets

The Guardian - UK

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Wales will grade next summer's GCSEs and A-levels more generously than England

Grades will be lower than 2022 but candidates will be given some advance information on exam content

Wales Online

Possible shift towards buyers’ market as property data shows more sellers reducing prices

Data has shown the highest level of reduced home prices since before the pandemic.

Daily Record

East Ayrshire Council needs £2.8 million to cover pay increases

East Ayrshire Council says there is a high risk that its funding won't cover expenditure, with pay offer adding to issues around Brexit and the pandemic

Daily Record

Clairo review – introspective pandemic-made pop bursts out into the open

Claire Cottrill’s ornate and intricate songs provoke a fan singalong backed by saxophones and clarinets

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Shake-up of Nottinghamshire bus services possible amid county council review

The council is trying to help bus services recover from the covid pandemic

Nottingham Post

Record review: Pritzker touts fiscal and crisis management — but critics just see campaign management

The pandemic created political superheroes and villains. In Illinois, Pritzker was both — lauded for stepping up to former President Donald Trump and fighting for COVID-19 resources, and lambasted by those who viewed him as an authoritarian who shut down much of the state.

Chicago Sun-Times

Commentary: Climate change is nudging us toward the next pandemic

The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Smothering heat clinging to the distorted asphalt of a densely packed street. Glaciers breaking off into a rising sea. Another scenario should be equally terrifying but is harder to envision: a virus leaving the animal that…

Los Angeles Times

UK economy grows slightly in second quarter

It means the UK might not currently be in recession, as was predicted by the Bank of England earlier this month.

Evening Standard

Yes, there's an Adderall shortage. Experts say high demand and the pandemic are fueling it

Many are quick to point fingers at online mental health startups that launched during the beginning of the pandemic. But there’s more at play, a pharmacists tells Fortune.

Fortune

Social welfare Ireland: Enhanced Illness Benefit for workers with Covid-19 to end

The €350-a-week Enhanced Illness Benefit (EIB) was introduced at the start of the pandemic

Dublin Live

If you think scrapping COVID isolation periods will get us back to work and past the pandemic, think again

COVID is an exceptional disease and was at its deadliest this year, causing more deaths in Australia between June and August 2022 than at any other time. There have been 288 deaths from influenza so far this year compared to more than 12,000 deaths from COVID.

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Reuters

Hong Kong government to further ease coronavirus measures

The Hong Kong government said on Friday it aims to ease some coronavirus curbs in an orderly way as pandemic trends in the Asia financial hub were continuing to stabilise.

Bangkok Post

Covid nears its pandemic end

The Covid-19 pandemic is nearing its end but people should still seek vaccination against the disease, especially elderly people, a Department of Disease Control senior official said on Friday.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Biden is wrong about the pandemic being over

While the Biden administration rushes to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation’s rear-view mirror ahead of the midterm elections, its premature decision to declare the pandemic “over” threatens to further erode Republican support for prevention efforts. But even more importantly, it hides a looming crisis of the administration’s own…

Reuters

Italy drops COVID-19 face mask rule for public transport

Italians will no longer have to wear face masks on public transport, the health ministry said late on Thursday, in the latest easing of rules against the coronavirus pandemic.

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Australia's COVID-19 isolation rules and pandemic payments are getting a shake-up. Here's what you need to know

While health authorities say the changes signal a move away from "COVID exceptionalism", they've warned "it does not in any way suggest that the pandemic is finished".

The Conversation

View from The Hill: national cabinet drops mandatory isolation, dumping 'COVID exceptionalism'

National cabinet has agreed to lift the five day mandatory isolation period for people contracting COVID, with the Commonwealth’s chief medical officer declaring “it is time to move away from COVID exceptionalism”.

The Conversation

Not just a joke: we scoured TikTok for anti-Asian humour during the pandemic, and found too many disappointing memes

We live in deeply unequal societies where certain groups, such as racial and sexual minorities, continue to experience structural oppression. Humour targeted at these groups can cause individual harm through its cumulative effects, and contribute to broader social harms too.

The Canberra Times

COVID rules have changed in the ACT again. Here's what is left

The ACT will no longer require passengers to wear a mask on public transport and in taxis and rideshares.

Reuters

As Australia calls end to COVID emergency response, doctors warn of risk to public

Australia will end the mandatory five-day home quarantine for COVID-infected people on Oct. 14, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, even as some doctors warned the move would put the public at risk.

ABC News

Mandatory COVID-19 isolation periods scrapped from October 14, emergency response 'finished' says national cabinet

Rules forcing people to isolate for five days if they test positive to COVID-19 will end from October 14 for everyone, as the chief medical officer says it marks the likely end of the emergency pandemic response.

The Independent UK

Amid the chaos, the WHO’s Tedros plans for the next pandemic

While Tedros has yet to catch the virus, his life, at the centre of the pandemic, has been infected by the chaos and conspiracy Covid-19 has created, writes Adam Taylor

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