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Novavax missed its global moonshot but is angling to win over mRNA defectors

Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 billion in U.S. funding for its COVID-19 vaccine. Its moonshot goal: delivering 2 billion shots to the world by mid-2021.

Tribune News Service

People over-50 encouraged to return to work due to staff shortages

Figures show 500,000 workers aged 50 or over quit jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Record billion meth pills seized in East, SE Asia last year: UN

A record one billion methamphetamine pills were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, the UN said Monday, as crime gangs exploited the Covid-19 pandemic and instability in coup-hit Myanmar to boost their activities.

Bangkok Post

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Monkeypox warning: Outbreak could be 'peak of the iceberg’, says WHO as cases hit 257

World Health Organisation pandemic chief Sylvie Briand said the current monkeypox outbreak could be the "peak of the iceberg" as non-endemic countries report cases

Daily Mirror

Boy devastated after family's TUI holiday cancelled by TEXT amid 11-hour delay

The family were due to fly out to Turkey for their first holiday since the pandemic started, but ended up heading home after waiting nearly 12 hours as their flight was cancelled

Daily Mirror

PM-CARES for Children scheme | India became the solution giver for the world during pandemic, says Narendra Modi

The Prime Minister was speaking at an event where he released benefits under the scheme.

The Hindu

North Korea rolls back lockdown, says virus flareup ‘controlled’

North Korea removed virus lockdown measures that had been in place for more than two weeks in its capital, news reports indicated, after saying policies by leader Kim Jong Un have controlled the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak.

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With themed cafes, Kolkata neighbourhoods wake up to the smell of coffee beans

KOLKATA: Sleepy and quiet corners of the city have suddenly sprung to life with a curious burst of numerous cafes, each distinguished by its own theme and aesthetics, growing to prominence over the course of the pandemic.

The Times of India

Over-50s urged to return to work due to staff shortages

Many older workers quit jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Wales Online

Medical research stalled as NHS focuses on small number of trials, experts say

Report outlines ‘research waste’ that occurred during the pandemic, with weakly designed trials exposing millions to unproven treatments

The Guardian - UK

Ministry to mull delay of land and building tax collection

The Finance Ministry is considering the private sector's proposal to delay and reduce collection of the land and building tax because businesses are struggling with the double whammy of the impact of the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, says minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith.

Bangkok Post

Tourists and the Japanese art of pandemic envy

The first tourists have begun to trickle back into Japan, with a few guided tour groups arriving this week in a small experiment designed to get locals used to the idea of foreign visitors. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is promising to let in more package tours starting next month as…

Bangkok Post

Gun sales and permits surged during the pandemic in Philly and Pennsylvania

In Uvalde, Texas, a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school, after picking up two powerful, AR-15-style rifles ordered through an online seller shortly after his 18th birthday — something that would have also been perfectly legal in Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Building peace and prosperity with strong BRICS

The BRICS partnership is ‘walking together to walk far’ to build a community with a shared future for mankind

The Hindu

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Failing our most vulnerable children left a dark shadow over the city - how did Manchester turn it around?

The total transformation of the way we look after children is a tale of triumph over adversity which leaves young people and families across Manchester with a better chance in life

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'Vigilance vital' as COVID-19 deaths rise

Australia has reported more than 360 deaths from COVID-19 in the past seven days, 88 of them at the weekend, with the country's caseload exceeding 300,000.

The Independent UK

‘Everything went nuts’ – Andy Murray’s presence boosts Surbiton Trophy

The London venue saw its 2020 and 2021 tournaments cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Conversation

Levelling the playing field: How a trauma-informed approach can make physical activity more accessible

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in decreased levels of physical activity, which has implications for physical and mental health. Physical activity can also be an important tool for recovery from the collective trauma experienced and exacerbated throughout the pandemic, especially for equity-seeking communities.

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The Guardian - UK

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates review – a germ of an idea

The tech pioneer wants us to prepare for the ‘Big One’ by holding regular pandemic exercises. But how do you deal with the threat posed by fake news?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Investment Opportunities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Shift Attention Away from Africa

Investment opportunities in the Arab markets have emerged, in light of the successive crises that have impacted the global economy, starting with the global financial crisis in 2008, the geopolitical changes in the Middle East, the coronavirus pandemic and the current war in Ukraine. Countries that have carried out broad…

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Western climbers rush to Himalayan peaks as Nepal reboots tourism

Ukraine’s Antonina Samoilova unfurled her country’s flag on Mount Everest earlier this month as Nepal opened its mountains to foreign climbers and set up a new airport to boost its lifeline tourism business which went into deep freeze during the pandemic.

Tribune News Service

Your to-go cocktails make it harder to enforce underage drinking laws

During the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of states have given a boost to struggling restaurants by allowing them to sell cocktails to-go, through takeout, curbside pickup or home delivery. But the expansion of alcohol to-go laws has placed a heavy burden on understaffed alcohol enforcement agencies, which have been hard-pressed to…

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The Blackfeet Nation’s plight underscores the fentanyl crisis on reservations

BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson and son.

The Guardian - US

As the pandemic ebbs, long-haul Covid still drains patients and confounds doctors

Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it

Tribune News Service

Burned out by COVID and 80-hour workweeks, resident physicians unionize

In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. Lorenzo González, then a second-year resident of family medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, ran on fumes, working as many as 80 hours a week in the ICU. He was constantly petrified that he would catch the COVID-19 virus and guilt-ridden for not…

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