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PayPal Lays Off Employees As Growth Stagnates After Pandemic Recovery, Supply Chain Disruptions

PayPal Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) began laying off risk management and operations employees working in Chicago, Omaha, Nebraska, and Chandler, Arizona, this week, Bloomberg reports. PayPal ended 2021 with 30,900 employees, a 33% increase from pre-pandemic levels. PayPal incurred $20 million in costs tied to its restructuring in the first three months of…

Benzinga

The Jersey Shore helped people through the pandemic. But things at the beach are still unsettled

The idea of the Jersey Shore as a place of escape, of healing, a tonic with an ocean breeze — a very old idea, really — was put to a test the last two years.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The pandemic has taken its toll on Australian nurses, and now hospitals are scrambling for staff

Australia is in the midst of a shortage of nurses, and not even healthcare professionals are able to gauge the full extent of the crisis.

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2022 opens with online and onsite engagement

Artist Ellen Pau’s Shape of Light video installation, projected onto Hong Kong’s M+ Museum, sends out a message of healing during the pandemic

The Hindu

Mark Drakeford outlines Wales' Covid plan for the long-term as all restrictions end

Wales' First Minister spoke about vaccination, testing and restrictions as the cycle of Covid reviews comes to an end

Wales Online

India counted all deaths in Covid year 2020, says new government report. Did it?

Three weeks after the health ministry claimed to have achieved 99.99 percent death registration in 2020, the Registrar General of India has indirectly confirmed the figure. This, then, is the first time that India claims to have registered every death – in a pandemic-hit year, no less.

Newslaundry

Wales to end all Covid regulations as country looks forward to ‘brighter future’

The legal requirement to wear a face covering in health and care settings will end on Monday May 30, the Welsh Government said.

The Independent UK

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Tourists to south-west England urged to check if rental affects housing crisis

Calls for ‘ethical consideration’ of short-term lets as 3,000 second homes registered in south-west in pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: The US needs paid sick leave. Here’s how to get it right

Paid leave has emerged from the pandemic as a popular policy, frequently invoked as one route to move America forward from COVID-19 and its brutal impact on workforces nationwide.

Los Angeles Times

New cycle skills trails at Falkirk park gets green light

Falkirk Council says there was a demand for cycling facilities even before the pandemic

Daily Record

A trip revealed how serious Peru is taking the pandemic. My return to Chicago led to infection

When the plane touched down in Chicago, I sighed with relief. After meticulous planning, we were returning from a two-week trip to Lima, Peru. We hadn’t seen my partner’s sister — soon to turn 91 years old — for five years and felt that with thorough precautions, we could keep…

Chicago Tribune

Kids aren’t skipping just COVID vaccines

BALTIMORE — There are thousands of children across Maryland who not only haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19, but also lack protection from influenza and the kinds of diseases that routine shots long ago made scarce, such as measles and chickenpox.

Tribune News Service

Japan to Resume Tourism in June; Only Packaged Tour for Now

Japan will open its borders to foreign tourists in June for the first time since imposing tight pandemic travel restrictions about two years ago, but only for package tours for now, the prime minister said Thursday. Beginning June 10, Japan will allow the entry of people on tours with fixed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Monkeypox tracker ‘being developed to track UK cases’

Health officials reportedly planning dashboard, similar to the one launched during the Covid pandemic

The Independent UK

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Bejjani: Digital Investments Boosted Majid Al Futtaim's Resilience During the Pandemic

Digital investments have boosted Majid Al Futtaim's resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerated its recovery, announced CEO Alain Bejjani. Majid Al Futtaim is the leading shopping mall, communities, retail, and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat on the sidelines of…

The Guardian - US

‘It’s all preventable’: tackling America’s workplace suicide epidemic

The US suicide rate is the highest of any wealthy country and the pandemic highlighted work stress’s effect on mental health

The Independent UK

Ex-rebel frontrunner in Colombian vote, could shake US ties

Colombians will pick from six candidates in a presidential ballot being held Sunday amid a generalized feeling the country is heading in the wrong direction

The Times of India

Medical tourism in Ernakulam fully recovers from Covid

KOCHI: Ernakulam is once again emerging as the largest destination for medical tourism in the state. There was a 75-80% drop in arrival of foreign patients during the initial two years of Covid-19 pandemic.

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The Times of India

Telangan among 5 states at bottom of learning ladder last year

HYDERABAD: Telangana is among the five (of 36 states/Union territories) worst-performing states in National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 as its students scored poorly in achieving learning outcomes in various subjects across different levels — class 3, class 5, class 8, and class 10. During the pandemic, 33% of class 10…

The Times of India

Mumbai: Management graduate arrested for Rs 1.5 crore 'crypto' fraud

MUMBAI: A 23-year-old management graduate has been arrested by Charkop police for duping investors of Rs 1.5 crore after offering to invest the money in cryptocurrency. Jagdish Ladi, the accused, has a BBA degree and has been trading online since the pandemic broke out in 2020, police said. So far,…

The Times of India

'During Covid, 40% North East kids lacked digital education tools', says National Achievement Survey 2021 report

GUWAHATI: The National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report, published on Wednesday, has painted a gloomy picture of digital education in schools in the northeast, where over 40% students spent their days at home during the pandemic without any digital device to aid their education.

The Conversation

Planning a holiday? What's the COVID situation in Bali, Fiji, NZ and the UK?

Many of us are considering a long-delayed overseas trip. However, despite what our politicians are telling us, the pandemic is not over yet, and there is always the risk you could catch COVID on holiday or just before you depart.

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu school students' learning outcome below national average

CHENNAI: Solving problems that one faces in day-to-day life using rational numbers, locating important historical sites and places on map, identifying construction models using materials from surroundings, explaining the process of making a law, identifying assumptions, prejudices - these are some of the learning outcomes which Class VIII and X…

ABC News

Job burnout behind push for larger Tasmanian parliament, but many other sectors can't just vote for more staff

Clinicians say burnout is affecting many sectors, particularly during the pandemic, and while there are some things you can do, voting to increase your staff numbers is not one of them.

Bangkok Post

Chadchart agrees to rehire convicts

The Covid-19 pandemic and state procurement law have kept convicts from being hired to clear out sewers in Bangkok, according to City Hall, despite Bangkok governor-elect Chadchart Sittipunt agreeing to have them return to work.

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