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UK film and TV industry bounces back from Covid with record £5.6bn spend

Annual investment doubles as production industry races to replenish libraries depleted by the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Six Nations 2023: Bristol pubs and bars showing the rugby this year

Rugby fans are raring to go

Bristol Post

Coronavirus infection rates, cases and deaths for all parts of Wales on Friday, February 4

Wales has recorded eight new Covid deaths but the seven-day infection has fallen for the third day in a row

Wales Online

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Covid keeps Winter Olympics opening a muted affair

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping declared the Beijing Winter Olympics open on Friday as China tried to turn the page on a build-up overshadowed by human rights concerns, Covid and a US-led diplomatic boycott.

Bangkok Post

Haute couture, summer 2022: High fashion returns to Paris catwalks

January's summer 2022 Couture Fashion Week showcased the latest sartorial offerings from 17 labels, just over half the number included in the official calendar due to ongoing Covid restrictions. Dior's Maria-Grazia Chiuri offered an ode to embroidery at Paris's Rodin museum, Jean Paul Gaultier handed the reigns of his empire…

France 24

‘It’s 100% cool Cymru 2.0’: pumping it out on Welsh language music day

Artists such as electronic duo Roughion emerge from Covid lockdowns to celebrate Dydd Miwsig Cymru

The Guardian - UK

These countries are still Covid-free

Five sovereign states still claim zero coronavirus cases

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Spain set to relax Covid face mask rules just in time for Brits' half-term holidays

Spain is set to axe Covid face mask rules outdoors from next week including on beaches and around swimming pools just in time for half term holidays

Daily Mirror

Keep Covid restrictions in schools until pandemic is over, says head who retired at Christmas

David Lewis said keeping measures such as contact bubbles and masks was the only way to keep children in schools and stop them being sent home to learn

Wales Online

Selection trials for rifle and pistol shooters in March and April

NEW DELHI: With COVID-19 cases starting to decline across the country, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has decided to hold the selection trials for rifle and pistol shooters in March and April this year.

The Times of India

London’s Covid hospitalisations drop to pre-Omicron levels

London’s Covid hospitalisation rate has dropped to levels not seen since before the outbreak of Omicron, new figures show.

Evening Standard

The countries boycotting the Winter Olympics - who is involved and why?

Several countries have opted against sending diplomatic delegations to the Games

The Independent UK

Beijing Olympics Set to Open under Cloud of Covid, Rights Fears

A Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with an opening ceremony at the "Bird's Nest" stadium. The distinctive lattice-shaped arena took center stage at the 2008 Games -- seen as China's coming-out party to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Covid, Uyghurs and viewer apathy: is Beijing 2022 in danger of a US ratings flop?

The Olympics is no longer event television and Tokyo 2020 drew the smallest US audience of any televised Games. Worse could be in store in the coming weeks

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Experience: after getting Covid, everything I eat tastes like rotting flesh

I rarely feel hungry and only eat when I feel I should – food smells are physically repulsive

The Conversation

View From The Hill: Aged care residents are paying for lessons not learned fast enough

Richard Colbeck had to face the music this week over attending the fifth test in his home state of Tasmania when he’d told the Senate COVID committee he was too busy working on the Omicron wave spreading through aged care to appear.

Wales Online

Portugal changes Covid entry rules in half-term boost for UK holidaymakers

Negative tests will no longer be required for "those who present the EU Covid Digital Certificate or other proof of vaccination"

Daily Record

Kirkcudbright GP warns surgical procedures created by coronavirus pandemic could take "long time" to clear

Dr John Locke says the pandemic has impacted sectors of the health service from local surgeries to hospital wards

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Covid expert Prof Sam McConkey shares three things Ireland should do to prepare for future pandemics

He believes there are three actions that need to be taken to safeguard the country from the effects of another pandemic

The Guardian - US

Covid-era Americans are using public transit less and having more car crashes

Transport officials are alarmed by a surge in car-related deaths as public transport ridership struggles in the wake of the pandemic

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gothenburg Film Festival Puts Audience under Hypnosis

To add another dimension to the cinematic experience, Scandinavia's largest film festival introduced hypnosis ahead of the featured movies, Agence France Press (AFP) reported. "We have built this hypnotic cinema to experiment with the film experience, to challenge our ideas about how to watch a film," Jonas Holmberg, director of…

Wales Online

Covid briefing: Six things as WHO say Europe is entering 'plausible endgame'

A director has said that the number of coronavirus deaths is starting to plateau

Asharq Al-Awsat

Xi to Meet Putin as Tensions Rise with West

China's President Xi Jinping is poised for his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader in nearly two years on Friday when he hosts Russia's Vladimir Putin, with the pair drawing closer as tensions grow with the West. Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was…

France 24

Beijing Winter Olympics kick off amid Covid fears, diplomatic frost

A Winter Olympics overshadowed by human rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble kicked off in Beijing on Friday with a glittering opening ceremony at the Bird's Nest stadium.

Reuters

Race to send vaccines, medical aid as COVID-19 reaches Pacific islands

Pacific island nations that are some of the last places in the world to be hit by the coronavirus pandemic are recording a growing number of COVID-19 cases, prompting a rush to provide vaccines, medical teams and food aid.

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