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The country registered 2,084 more Covid-19 cases and 15 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

Bangkok Post

COVID-19 filling hospital beds across Illinois, as risk level improves to ‘medium’ in Cook County

Hospital admissions have more than doubled since mid-April, following a steady increase in cases since the early spring — a trend playing out in most other parts of the country, too.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vaccine and testing delays for monkeypox echo failures in early COVID response

Andy Stone is one of the lucky ones. The New York City resident saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist saying that monkeypox vaccines would be available that day at a clinic in Manhattan. Stone, 35, and his husband booked appointments online right away and got their shots last…

Tribune News Service

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Commentary: The furtive messaging around monkeypox feels awfully familiar

Have public health officials and the news media been less than candid in their explanations of the risk factors in the worldwide monkeypox outbreak? Are we seeing a replay of why people are losing confidence in doctors and journalists who have not been forthright about the public in the COVID-19…

Chicago Tribune

How will Boris Johnson’s handling of the Covid crisis be remembered?

Analysis: there were mixed messages, mistakes, but also successes, before Partygate helped bring down PM

The Guardian - UK

2,144 new Covid cases, 20 more deaths

The country registered 20 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,144 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Friday morning.

Bangkok Post

Ministry urged to update mask and isolation advice

Experts are concerned that the Ministry of Health's internal and public health advice isn't aligned with the latest science.

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Monsoon temperatures now higher than in summer, says CSE report

In 2012-2021, the average monsoon temperatures have risen 0.4 C higher than average summer temperatures when compared from 1951-1980

The Hindu

WHO to hold meeting to decide if monkeypox should be a global public health emergency

“Europe is the current epicentre of the outbreak, recording more than 80 percent of cases globally."

Irish Mirror

JVT hails colleagues as he is knighted for helping steer nation through pandemic

Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam gained public affection for delivering health messages with a dose of humour and colourful analogies.

The Independent UK

Immunology expert gives update on future of Covid in Ireland saying mass vaccine boosting 'not practical'

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has refused to rule out the need for further measures over the Autumn and Winter months but has said current public health advice indicates that things will remain the same for now

Irish Mirror

Doctor issues warning as new covid strain sets record

The professor who leads the Zoe health study has called on the government to provide public health advice

Liverpool Echo

What the U.S. can learn from abortion rights wins in Latin America

In the last two years, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have decriminalized or fully legalized abortion. Here's what Latin America's green wave can teach the movement in the U.S.

WEKU

2,366 new Covid cases, 20 more deaths

The country registered 20 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,366 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

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Faye Flam: Fuzzy language is setting back the fight against COVID

People no longer know what to do about the COVID pandemic. Part of the problem is the very language we use to talk about it. Words such as “breakthrough,” “booster” and even “sick” mean different things to different people — and to experts and the general public. The solution is…

Bangkok Post

Cannabis opponents should be open to wisdom, says health minister

NONTHABURI: Opponents of the decision to decriminalise cannabis need to open their minds to the wisdom on the merits of the plant, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Wednesday.

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool mass testing pilot saved lives and prevented covid catastrophe

New findings show pioneering city effort helped to keep emergency services running during the pandemic

Bangkok Post

Ministry signs contract to buy long-acting antibody drug

The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday signed a procurement agreement with AstraZeneca for 257,500 doses of the long-acting antibody drug Evusheld, which boosts Covid-19 immunity in patients with low immunity levels.

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Bangkok Post

2,428 new Covid cases, 22 more deaths

There were 22 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,428 confirmed new cases on Tuesday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Wednesday.

360info

Dangerous ticks are increasingly coming in contact with people

Blood-feeding arthropods, like mosquitoes, insects and ticks are increasingly sharing their environments with humans due to the climate, with chronic results.

The Conversation

Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

Irish Mirror

Covid-19 Ireland: Hospitalisations increase 347% as Irish nurses call for public health measures

"We have just emerged from the worst June for hospital overcrowding on record coupled with sharp increases in COVID cases in our hospitals."

Daily Mirror

Covid cases are soaring again this summer - health expert answers all your questions

Azeem Majeed, professor of public health at Imperial College, London, answers readers' questions as Covid cases begin to rise again amid highly infectious subvariants BA.4 and BA.5

The National (Scotland)

Covid-19 death rate after positive test decreases in Scotland

THE number of deaths being attributed to Covid-19 in Scotland’s hospitals following a positive test result in patients has more than halved since…

The Guardian - UK

Dangerous strain of salmonella becoming more common in UK meat

Unpublished government records show rise in poultry products testing positive for salmonella infantis

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