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China’s November Urban Jobless Rate Jumps to 5.7%

Covid outbreaks in major cities drive unemployment to highest levels since May, and end of pandemic controls may further stress job market

Caixin Global

EXPLAINER: Will immigration surge as asylum rule ends?

Ever since the pandemic began the U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum

The Independent UK

Early stage cancer diagnoses fell to nine-year low during pandemic

Experts warn diagnosis delays could lead to further fatalities

Evening Standard

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Alfresco dining scheme trialed in Pimlico during pandemic could be made permanent

Consultation is open to the public for eight weeks

Evening Standard

The best pop music albums of 2022

If 2022 was a year of at least trying to return to normalcy, part of that process for music makers was putting all they had to say out there, releasing the pent up accumulation of ideas accrued over two years of pandemic living.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

CES 2023: Tech world to gather and show off gadgets

CES is returning to Las Vegas this January with the hope that it inches closer to how it looked before the pandemic

The Independent UK

Number of Welsh speakers has declined – pandemic disruption to education may be a cause

The recent 2022 census held unexpected news for Wales. It found the number of Welsh speakers in the country had decreased by 1.2% since the previous 2011 census, from 19% to 17.8%.

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Pandemic eviction protections, direct payments kept homelessness in check, study shows

LOS ANGELES — Eviction moratoriums and cash income from extended unemployment insurance and stimulus payments helped thousands of economically vulnerable people in Los Angeles County avoid becoming homeless during the pandemic, a new study has found.

Los Angeles Times

Wetherspoons worker gets married in a Spoons boozer after two-year wait due to Covid

Emily Roche tied the knot to husband Liam in one of the budget pub chain's boozers, after waiting for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

As China eases COVID rules shoppers look for canned peaches to help

Chinese shoppers are scrambling to get their hands on canned peaches, as the government scales back a number of its COVID-19 restrictions.

The New Daily

COVID, burnout, and drug shortages: Children and parents are paying the price for the medical system’s dysfunction

The perfect storm came for kids this winter: fewer pediatric units, a shortage in pediatric formulations of drugs, and fewer pediatricians.

Fortune

Post-pandemic, CDC faces ‘uphill battle’ for backing in new Congress

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wants to overhaul the agency but needs Congress' help. And she is losing key allies.

Roll Call

WHO Eyes End to Covid Emergency in 2023

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it hoped that Covid-19 would no longer be a public health emergency in 2023, as it urged China to share information that could pinpoint how the pandemic started. As the third anniversary of the original outbreak rolls around, the WHO said the virus was…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tech counties boomed in pandemic, new data shows

The pandemic was an economic boon for the nation’s tech centers last year, but the tide already has turned as consumers’ demand for remote work software, delivered food and streaming entertainment subsides.

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Bangkok Post

Study: China Covid deaths could reach 1 million

Almost 1 million people in China may die from Covid-19 as the government rapidly abandons pandemic curbs, according to a new study by researchers in Hong Kong.

The Conversation

Looking to work in a bank? Better hide those tattoos and piercings

For all the talk of the pandemic having relaxed our workplace dress code, the truth is that you would be best not turn up in loungewear in certain sectors, even in 2022. Research we conducted in the French banking industry confirmed the workplace still favours job candidates with a conservative…

The Times of India

China’s Covid death toll could near 1 million, study shows

HONG KONG: Almost 1 million people in China may die from Covid-19 as the government rapidly abandons pandemic curbs, according to a new study by researchers in Hong Kong.

Daily Record

John Needham asks supporters to keep backing the club as St Mirren target quick return to profitability

The Buddies boss insists the Paisley club are doing all they can to boost revenue after the negative financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Guardian - UK

Why are so many women living in separate homes from their partners and kids? Because it’s a win-win situation

For many women, the pandemic deepened the gendered division of labour and they simply had enough, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Independent UK

A week into easing, uncertainty over China virus direction

A week after China eased some of its strictest COVID-19 containment measures, uncertainty remains over the direction of the pandemic

The Independent UK

Mother diagnosed with stage three cancer after breast ‘changed shape overnight’

Angela Butterworth, 42, from Witney in Oxfordshire, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in March 2020 during the Covid pandemic

The Independent UK

Bethlehem welcomes Christmas tourists after pandemic lull

Business is bouncing back in Bethlehem after two years in the doldrums during the coronavirus pandemic, lifting spirits in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ahead of the Christmas holiday

Reuters

China pushes vaccines as retreat from 'zero-COVID' turns messy

China raced to vaccinate its most vulnerable people on Thursday in anticipation of waves of COVID-19 infections, with some analysts expecting the death toll to soar after it eased strict controls that had kept the pandemic at bay for three years.

The Independent UK

Relaxed COVID rules, deadly crowd crushes mark year in Asia

Natural disasters and crowd-related tragedies claimed hundreds of lives in Asia and overshadowed the COVID-19 pandemic, with most countries easing or completely lifting the tough restrictions of the previous two years. Even China, the last major country to try to control virus transmission through a “zero-COVID” strategy, relaxed the rigorous…

The Independent UK

Gap between poorer students and classmates ‘grows by largest amont on record’

Much of the progress towards closing this divide was wiped out last year, Education Policy Institute says

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