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Climate change and air pollution are wrecking children’s health, a landmark review reveals

New research highlights the public health threat of climate change and air pollution to children and offers recommendations to healthcare professionals.

Inverse

Scotland has 13 confirmed monkeypox cases as health chiefs investigate links

Public Health Scotland say the cases have been identified in laboratories, but they have not identified a common link between them as of yet.

Daily Record

Anutin: Most Covid controls to be lifted

The Public Health Ministry expects the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration to lift nearly all Covid-19 restrictions nationwide, meaning the virtual full-scale resumption of business and other activities including entertainment.

Bangkok Post

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Active Covid cases still subsiding, Govt data shows Thursday

The Covid-19 pandemic continued to subside, government data showed on Thursday, with active cases diving to 21,202, the lowest number since April 23, 2021.

Bangkok Post

'BA4, BA5 variants causing surge', says Dr T S Selvavinayagam

CHENNAI: Meanwhile, fresh cases crossed the 400-mark after February 27 when cases were on the decline after the Omicron-fuelled third wave. Director of public health Dr T S Selvavinayagam said this time BA4 and BA5 variants are causing the surge. "The only way to stop the spread is by wearing…

The Times of India

Ministry recommends boosters every 4 months

The Public Health Ministry has approved additional booster jabs against Covid-19 every four months for those who have already received three doses.

Bangkok Post

Anthony Fauci on the Aids crisis, monkeypox, trans rights and his retirement

In an exclusive interview with Io Dodds, Dr Anthony Fauci looks back on his decades-long career in public health

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Latest monkeypox figures in Scotland as more cases confirmed

THERE have now been 13 cases of monkeypox reported in Scotland, public health officials say.

The National (Scotland)

Public Health Officials Who Didn't Stop Global Monkeypox Outbreak Now Say the Name Is Problematic

The WHO said it will rename the virus after researchers complained that the current name is "stigmatizing" and "discriminatory."

Reason

A ground plan for India’s COVID-19 response

The population-wide application of the pandemic response can be transitioned to be focused on individual protection

The Hindu

54 new cases of monkeypox detected in UK ahead of WHO emergency meeting

The World Health Organisation will determine whether the outbreak presents a public health emergency of international concern

Evening Standard

Opinion: From Kigoma to Kyiv, refugees everywhere deserve quality health care

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

WEKU

Monkeypox: WHO official warns of need to act with urgency to control virus outbreak

Last week, the Department of Health deemed Monkeypox a notifiable disease in Northern Ireland.

Belfast Live

Pride events ‘can spread public health messages about monkeypox’

The World Health Organisation said some 1,160 confirmed cases have been reported in 22 countries in the European Economic Area.

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Tasmania to phase out more mask rules

The Tasmanian government has announced mask mandates for schools and public transport will be dropped on June 25.

Bangkok Post

2,263 new Covid cases, 18 more deaths

There were 2,263 more confirmed Covid-19 cases and 18 related fatalities on Tuesday, the Public Health Ministry reported on Wednesday.

The Conversation

A major new law aims to ‘improve the health of all New Zealanders’ – so why doesn't it include the basic human right to health?

The new Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act, due to take effect from July 1, will be a once-in-a-generation chance to reset New Zealand’s public health system. It’s a welcome effort to protect, promote and improve the health of all New Zealanders, reduce health disparities (in particular for Māori) and give…

Tribune News Service

COVID or no, cruise ships are back in Seattle

After being cooped up in her Bonney Lake, Washington, home for much of the pandemic, Earlene Smith was ready to cruise again.

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Bangkok Post

Anutin defends pot decriminalisation

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has defended the decriminalisation of cannabis following the death of a man who suffered heart failure after taking what was described by Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt as an overdose, saying the issue should not be politicised.

Salon

The rural Covid response in Ecuador

Young health care workers are responsible for rural populations. They face supply shortages and more

Daily Record

Minimum pricing helping Scotland overcome alcohol pandemic according to Dumbarton charity chief

Mags Mackenzie of Dumbarton Area Council on Alcohol (DACA) spoke out after Public Health Scotland published a report into the impact minimum unit pricing (MUP) was having.

Axios

More monkeypox testing is needed to understand just how large the outbreak is

Health officials are calling on clinicians and local health departments to increase surveillance of monkeypox.

Bangkok Post

Anutin: Cannabis decriminalisation a success

Public Health Minister Anutin Charvirakul on Tuesday declared the decriminalisation of cannabis a good policy with campaigns in place to ensure its proper use, as a senator warned of the need for proper legislation against its recreational use by young people.

Bangkok Post

End of airport thermoscans proposed

The Public Health Ministry is planning to propose the end of the body temperature scan for travellers at airports due to the improving Covid-19 situation.

Bangkok Post

1,833 new Covid cases, 19 more deaths

The country registered 19 more Covid-19 fatalities and 1,833 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning.

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