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The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

After Fantastic Four hits theaters, we've got our longest wait for a new Marvel movie since the pandemic

It's going to be a patience tester!

Total Film

New figures reveal the decline in Cumbria tourism since Covid pandemic

Last year, visitor numbers to Cumbria dropped and trips lasted for less time

The Independent UK

Five Ways Retirees Can Keep Perspective Through Market Jitters

Market volatility is a recurring event with historical precedents (the dot-com bubble, global financial crisis and pandemic), each followed by recovery. Here's how people who are near or in retirement can navigate economic uncertainty.

Kiplinger

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Growing number of homeowners who bought in pandemic boomtowns owe more than homes are worth

People who bought homes during the pandemic may have a hard time making a profit or just breaking even if they choose to sell now

The Independent UK

France’s mortality falls to record low in 2023, dropping below pre-Covid levels

Mortality in France reached a “historically low” level in 2023, researchers looking at public health records have concluded. The trend is linked to the drop in Covid-19 deaths, and a return to trends before the pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

Online therapy as effective as in-person therapy, finds large study

When COVID arrived early in 2020, pandemic restrictions made in-person mental health care difficult or impossible. Both therapists and patients had to adapt almost overnight. For many in the field, it felt like a gamble: could this screen-based format offer the same level of support for people struggling with depression,…

The Conversation

French court drops Covid-19 mismanagement case against former government ministers

A French court on Monday dropped an investigation into the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, which had targeted three former officials, including former prime minister and 2027 presidential hopeful Édouard Philippe.

Radio France Internationale

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Three former officials in France cleared of allegations they mishandled COVID-19 pandemic

The decision, announced by one of the former officials on X, comes five years after a top court in France opened an investigation.

Euronews

Nations are increasingly ‘playing the field’ when it comes to US and China – a new book explains explains why ‘active nonalignment’ is on the march

In 2020, as Latin American countries were contending with the triple challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global economic shock and U.S. policy under the first Trump administration, Jorge Heine, research professor at Boston University and a former Chilean ambassador, in association with two colleagues, Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami,…

The Conversation

Man denies amassing armoury of weapons and trying to whip up pandemic uprising

Paul Martin has appeared in court charged with encouraging terrorism, possessing articles for the purposes of terrorism, and possessing a stun gun.

Evening Standard

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

LiveScience

The pandemic is still disrupting young people’s careers

Unlike previous economic downturns, the COVID pandemic created a crisis that disrupted both education and employment, abruptly halting young people’s emerging careers and clouding their hopes for the future. It doubly affected those transitioning into adulthood, out of school or university and into work, and it threatened the job security…

The Conversation

How far is your closest hospital or clinic? Public health researchers explain why Africa needs up-to-date health facility databases

The lack of reliable information about health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa became very clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid a surge in emergency care needs, information was lacking about the location of facilities, bed capacity and oxygen availability, and even where to find medical specialists. This data could have enabled…

The Conversation

Inquiry told of older people ‘cull’ as Matt Hancock defends care home policies

At a press conference in May 2020, Mr Hancock said: ‘Right from the start, we’ve tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes.’

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

‘Full of excuses’: families condemn Matt Hancock’s testimony to Covid inquiry

Former health secretary defends decision to discharge untested patients into care homes as ‘least worst option’

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock defends Covid care home plan as ‘the least-worst decision’

A civil servant earlier this week described the toll as a ‘generational slaughter within care homes’

Evening Standard

Hancock: Moving patients from hospitals to care homes was least-worst decision

Module six of the inquiry is focused on the effect the pandemic had on both the publicly and privately funded adult social care sector across the UK.

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“For Tomorrow”: I Returned To Japan After The Pandemic, Here’s What I Saw (23 Pics)

I'm Davide Sasso and after a long period of uncertainty and difficulty, the long-awaited day has finally arrived: my return to Japan after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Independent UK

Ex-aide to New York governor pleads not guilty to new pandemic fraud charge

A former aide to two New York governors already facing charges of acting as an illicit agent of China has pleaded not guilty to new charges that she improperly profited from the state’s purchase of critical medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

European Central Bank head: Frequent shocks to economy make inflation more unpredictable

The head of the European Central Bank said inflation has become more unpredictable due to shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - and that policymakers need to take the possibility of such extreme scenarios into account and communicate them to the public as well

The Texas Tribune

Texas lawmakers have gotten used to state budget surpluses. That era may be ending.

As federal pandemic aid ends and sales tax revenues cool, analysts say it could constrain the Texas Legislature in coming years. But they don’t see an immediate budget crisis on the horizon.

Euronews

Will we ever know for sure how COVID-19 began? Not without more data from China, WHO says

An expert group from the World Health Organization failed to find a definitive answer to the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins in its final report.

The National (Scotland)

Artist’s lens brought to bear on impact of austerity in new exhibition

A NEW exhibition is exploring how years of austerity and the global pandemic have affected people in Glasgow communities ...

Evening Standard

Bereaved urge ‘truth’ as Covid inquiry shifts focus to care homes

Matt Hancock will appear on Wednesday for a full-day session to face questions during a module set to last five weeks.

The Independent UK

WHO expert group fails to find a definitive answer for how COVID-19 began

An expert group charged by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has found no definitive answer

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