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More on the Transportation Mask Mandate Litigation

Some implications of the government's decision not to seek a stay of the district court ruling. Plus, the low quality of the trial judge's opinion doesn't necessarily mean there are no good arguments against the mandate's legality.

Reason

Jaipur: Low water pressure irks residents of Brahmapuri

JAIPUR: Residents of Brahmapuri area are facing water crisis as the water is being supplied at a very low pressure by Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED).

The Times of India

No endemic status before EOC's nod

About 15 provinces are aiming to be among the first to declare Covid-19 an endemic disease but they can't do so until they are approved by the Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), said Dr Suthep Petchmak, inspector-general of the ministry.

Bangkok Post

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Judge’s ruling on the CDC mask mandate highlights the limits of the agency’s power

The role that the federal government plays in containing future epidemics will hinge on the outcome of an appeal of last week’s court ruling that overturned the mask mandate for travelers on airlines, trains and the nation’s mass transit systems.

Tribune News Service

Almost 2,000 homeless people died in LA during first year of pandemic, a rise of more than 50 percent

Majority of deaths were drug overdoses after mental health and substance abuse treatments were slashed to curb Covid spread

The Independent UK

Child dies of mysterious strain of hepatitis with 114 cases in UK

The severe variant of the illness has been found in 12 countries with 17 children needing liver transplants

Wales Online

New Covid cases fall to 17,784 but 2022 death toll passes 6,000

The country registered 17,784 more Covid-19 cases and 126 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning.

Bangkok Post

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Anti-vaxxers gaining political ground

Bills expanding religious exemptions for childhood vaccine requirements were passed by Kansas state Senate in March

Salon

Of contracted lives

It has been almost a month since over 3,700 persons who were recruited on contract for Tamil Nadu’s health department were told their services were no longer required. While their protests at being made redundant were vehement, when they did enter, they were fully aware that contractual recruitments come with a…

The Hindu

Faye Flam: As at-home rapid tests replace PCRs, we need better guidance

Rapid antigen tests have been among the tools many public health experts and politicians have to ease into “living with COVID.” But many people are still skeptical about the tests’ reliability.

Tribune News Service

Rally for the Cali: hundreds take to the streets of Singleton for pub's roof flag

The Cali's flag issues were prefaced by their renown as the "Freedom Pub", which came about last year through "repeated and continued breaches of the Public Health Order".

Newcastle Herald

More people are struggling with loneliness than diabetes, US surgeon general says

MIAMI — The link between loneliness and public health may not be readily apparent to many, but it is to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who visited his Miami hometown Friday with a broad agenda — meeting with health care workers about pandemic-related burnout, speaking with LGBTQ students about mental…

Miami Herald

20,052 new Covid-19 cases, 129 more deaths

The country registered 20,052 more Covid-19 cases and 129 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

Bangkok Post

COVID-19 risk level increases to ‘medium’ in DuPage County as cases rise statewide

Three other Illinois counties have also seen their risk level elevated from “low” to “medium” under the latest CDC guidelines. The entire state was in the “low” category until about a month ago when coronavirus cases began to rebound.

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Fauci Says CDC Mandates 'Should Not Be a Court Issue'

That's a fundamentally anti-democratic attitude.

Daily Record

World Health Organization (WHO) monitoring hepatitis surge affecting children in Tayside

Public Health Scotland (PHS) chiefs were also made aware of the cases of hepatitis – an inflammation of the liver – identified in children aged between one and five years old who have been admitted to hospital across the central belt

Belfast Live

Gay man from NI on being 'turned away from donating blood at school'

The ‘humiliating’ experience motivated Rory McGill to carve out a successful career in public health, not only for himself, but for others in the LGBTQ+ community

Liverpool Echo

Child hepatitis cases: Signs and symptoms as cases rise to 108

Eight children had to receive a liver transplant

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Wales Online

Mysterious hepatitis outbreak sees more than 100 children affected

A number of children have needed liver transplants

Bangkok Post

21,808 new Covid cases, 128 more deaths

There were 128 more coronavirus-related fatalities and 21,808 confirmed new cases on Thursday, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday.

ABC News

Prescribed burning near Perth 'critical' to lower bushfire risk but many feel smoke health effects

As state and private landowners take advantage of mild autumn conditions to conduct controlled burns, public health experts warn of the risks posed by smoke and the need to protect lungs.

The Times of India

Karnataka govt owes its hospitals Rs 316 crore for 2 lakh+ procedures in 3 years

BENGALURU: Government hospitals in Karnataka which have conducted over two lakh procedures under the Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (AB-ArK) scheme since 2019 are still awaiting clearance of bills totalling a whopping Rs 316 crore, including the reimbursement of treatment cost and incentives for doctors and operating staff.

Bangkok Post

Govt receives 200k Covovax dose lift

The Ministry of Public Health will distribute 200,000 coronavirus protein-based vaccine doses donated by India and its partners to state-owned hospitals across Thailand with the target of inoculating those unvaccinated people.

The Hindu

Is India heading towards a possible fourth wave of COVID-19?

Masking and vaccination, the best tools available today, are the need of the hour

Belfast Live

Covid testing in Northern Ireland set to change from April 22

You will no longer need to take a PCR test if you have symptoms

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