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The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Queenstown’s housing ladder is more like a beanstalk

Without gigantic help, aspiring homeowners with few beans will be left dangling. David Williams reports.

Newsroom.co.nz

Apple supplier giving factory staff $424 bonus if they can stick it out for 90 days ahead of new iPhone launch

Third-party manufacturer Foxconn is hoping to avoid any production problems ahead of the crucial Christmas shopping season following last year’s COVID difficulties.

Fortune

A fight over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps? The dither and delay of Britain’s Covid inquiry is a disgrace

Sweden’s pandemic postmortem is done, yet ours seems headed for the courts before it has even begun, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

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Health board chief executive who started job in depths of Covid pandemic is to retire

Mark Hackett has praised the energy, passion and commitment of staff

Wales Online

Big brothers: The best sibling combinations in Illinois high school basketball history

Illinois high school basketball is in the midst of witnessing perhaps the biggest barrage of sibling stars the state has ever seen.

Chicago Sun-Times

Midlothian school attendance falls as educators urged to win 'hearts and minds' of pupils

Absence rates are higher than normal in primary and secondary schools in Midlohthian post Covid with incidents of distress and dysregulated behaviour in the classroom also causing concern

Edinburgh Live

11 awkward questions as Covid inquiry demands Boris Johnson's missing WhatsApps

An ugly legal row could see a court showdown between the Government and the official Covid-19 Inquiry over the shamed former PM's messages and missing notepads

Daily Mirror

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Covid lab leak theory should not be ruled out, top Chinese scientist says

Virologist George Gao also states for first time that China has investigated claim virus came from a laboratory

The Guardian - UK

COVID-19 clawbacks, spending caps and a cut – what House Republicans got in return for pushing the US to the brink of default

House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis because they wanted deep cuts in government spending.

The Conversation

Covid inquiry: what’s in Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps?

Boris Johnson and other senior members of his government are likely to ignore a new legal deadline to hand over unredacted messages sent during the pandemic to the Covid-19 public inquiry.

The Week

UK government fights demand to hand over Boris Johnson's messages to COVID-19 inquiry

Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry while he was U.K. prime minister into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

‘Now’s the time’: Australians urged to get flu and COVID shots as cases rise

Australians urged to get their boosters, with COVID and influenza cases rising as the country heads into winter.

The New Daily

What is the standoff between Covid inquiry and Cabinet Office about?

As dispute over Boris Johnson’s notebooks and WhatsApp messages continues, we look at the key points

The Guardian - UK

Tuberculosis is a global health threat

If public health infrastructure isn’t strengthened, experts say the risk of more TB cases and deaths will increase worldwide, a Yale University physician writes. The U.S. should build on the momentum developed during COVID-19 to address TB.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Evening Standard

Legal disputes rocket as more firms take insurers to court to pay claims

The number of legal disputes between companies and their insurers ending up in the High Court has almost trebled since before the pandemic, according to new research.

The Guardian - UK

No 10 accused of cover-up after denying it has Boris Johnson Covid messages

Cabinet Office tells Covid inquiry it has no copies despite government lawyers being given the material

Reuters

UK government given more time to hand over Boris Johnson messages to COVID inquiry

British ministers have been given more time to hand over unredacted messages from former prime minister Boris Johnson to a public inquiry looking into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a stand-off that could lead to criminal sanctions.

The Independent UK

What happens if the government doesn’t hand over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps?

Covid inquiry chief Baroness Hallett warns of £1,000 fines if government refuses to hand over messages between ex-PM and 40 top figures

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Wales Online

What is happening with Boris Johnson and the Covid inquiry and why it matters for Wales

'There's some cover-up going on here to save embarrassment of ministers. But there's also the Cabinet Office fighting for a principle of confidentiality'

The National (Scotland)

UK ministers given more time to hand Boris Johnson’s diaries to Covid inquiry

THE deadline for the UK Government to hand over Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, diaries and notebooks to the Covid-19 inquiry has been extended…

Daily Mirror

Kate Middleton’s parents leave taxpayer £176,000 out of pocket as party firm collapses

Caroline and Michael Middleton received a Covid business loan of £220,000 for their business Party Pieces, according to reports, but after going under this month they will leave the taxpayer out of pocket

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages are 'missing' - as mystery deepens

Ministers could be set for a legal battle with the Covid-19 inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries belonging to Boris Johnson.

Daily Mirror

Next pandemic could be 50 times deadlier than Covid, top scientists warn

American virologist Dr Robert Redfield, who served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021, feared his grandchildren would be faced with an even bigger crisis

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s ‘missing’ Covid inquiry evidence must be found, says Labour – as it happened

Latest updates: vital evidence must be handed over if ‘whiff of a cover-up’ is to be avoided, says Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader

Evening Standard

Covid Inquiry extends deadline for Government to handover unredacted messages

Covid Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett on Tuesday extended a deadline for the Government to hand over unredacted documents including Boris Johnson WhatsApp messages until 4pm on Thursday.

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