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Helen got engaged - then cancer and Covid came along

She had to wait three years between trying on her wedding dress and wearing it

Wales Online

China says COVID deaths, severe cases have fallen over 70% since peak

Critically ill COVID-19 cases in China are down 72% from a peak early this month while daily deaths among COVID-19 patients in hospitals have dropped 79% from their peak, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Cristiano Ronaldo among 22 players facing ban over Juventus £79m wage scandal

Serie A giants had deferred wages because of Covid-19 but investigation into off-field affairs has unearthed documents suggesting that repayments did not appear on balance sheet

Daily Mirror

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South Africa vs England: Cricket World Cup preparations begin with places up for grabs

Ahead of the first ODI on Friday, Malik Ouzia runs the rule over a squad with something to prove despite their enviable world ranking

Evening Standard

Commentary: Students bore the brunt of COVID and are feeling its effects on their education

As COVID-19 changed our landscape, K-12 students saw their world shrink to the confines of their computers. Because so many districts in Illinois were unprepared for remote learning, students’ grades in the last quarter of the 2020 school year could not have a negative impact on their second semester grade…

Chicago Tribune

Anger as Covid conspiracist Marjorie Taylor Greene appointed to House coronavirus subcommittee

Panel expected to investigate Joe Biden’s handling of Covid pandemic

The Independent UK

North Korea locks down capital due to ‘respiratory illness’ outbreak

North Korea has ordered a five-day lockdown in the capital over "respiratory illness", a report said Wednesday, in what appears to be the first citywide restrictions since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022.

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North Korea Locks Down Capital City Over ‘Respiratory Illness'

Authorities in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, Seoul-based NK News reported on Wednesday, citing a government notice. The notice did not mentioned COVID-19, but said that residents in the city are required to stay in their…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bath University start-up lands £1.2m after developing tech that allows vaccines to be stored without fridges

EnsiliTech has developed a way to keep vaccines such as Covid-19 safe out of the fridge or deep freeze

Birmingham Post

Five-day COVID-19 lockdown imposed in Pyongyang

Reports of North Koreans panic-buying food ahead of lockdown triggered by rising cases of respiratory illnesses.

Al Jazeera

Troubleshooter Chris Hipkins faces a tough road as New Zealand PM

Chris Hipkins, who became New Zealand's new prime minister on Wednesday, built a reputation for competence in tackling COVID-19, though he acknowledges some mistakes in handling the pandemic and faces a tough battle to retain power in an October general election.

Reuters

Hybrid working keeps high street footfall 18% down on pre-pandemic 2019

An average of 55% of consumers worked at home for at least some days each week in 2022, analysts Springboard said.

The Independent UK

Atagi expected to update advice on fifth dose of Covid vaccine within weeks

Experts urge governments to reprioritise public health messaging amid fears the anti-vaccine lobby ‘has the floor’ on immunisation

The Guardian - AU

Eleventh Circuit Becomes Second Federal Appellate Court to Strike Down Tax Mandate Condition in 2021 Covid Stimulus Bill

Like the Sixth Circuit before it, the Eleventh ruled that the requirement that states receiving stimulus money refrain from cutting taxes was never clearly authorized by Congress.

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'Tripledemic' surge of RSV, flu and COVID is on the decline

PITTSBURGH — You can remove the term "tripledemic" from your vocabulary — for now.

Salon

COVID's worrying back-and-forth spread

The back-and-forth spread of COVID from animals to humans is deeply troubling scientists. Here's why

Fortune

WHO head ‘very concerned’ about rising COVID deaths ahead of meeting to end—or extend—global public health emergency

“While clearly we’re in better shape than we were three years ago when the pandemic hit, the global collective response is once again under strain,” he said at a Tuesday news conference.

Wales Online

Football club boss claimed abandoned shed was gym in Covid grant fraud

Club chairman Owen Duggan was described as 'a true man of the community' whose actions have cast a cloud over the team

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The Guardian - AU

Federal government to intervene in transport union’s high court fight against Qantas

Tony Burke to be represented in case as airline seeks to overturn November decision which found it illegally outsourced ground staff jobs

Nottingham Post

DWP shares photoshop fails from fraudsters' attempts to 'prove' they live in UK

The number of fraudulent claims increased dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Brexit: UK construction costs ‘have risen much more steeply than EU’

Cost of labour in Britain up by 30% since referendum, double rise in some EU countries, research finds

The Independent UK

Night-time workers down 720,000 in five years, data shows

There were 8.7 million staff in the sector in 2022, down from a peak of 9.5 million in 2016.

Evening Standard

Liberal progressive icons like Jacinda are facing a colder climate today

When Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation from the New Zealand premiership last week, she essentially admitted that her party has a better electoral chance without her. It’s not yet two years since she was on stage at an Asia summit telling Angela Merkel what a “very good person” she was.…

Daily Mirror

Woman terrified by empty shops during pandemic stocks enough food for 5 years

Gubba, 23, wanted to become self-sufficient after seeing people 'fighting for food' during the coronavirus pandemic

Wales Online

The UK's largest touring gin and rum festival is coming to Swansea

The event will serve more than 120 types of gins and rums

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