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Call for return of face masks as Covid variant spreads

Five Brits have died from the Arcturus strain of Covid

The Independent UK

Covid Arcturus variant spreading in Ireland as cases triple and peculiar new symptom reported

Cases of the new Arcturus Covid variant, known as Omicron XBB.1.16, have tripled in Ireland. It comes amid growing concern worldwide about the strain's rapid spread.

Irish Mirror

The latest COVID-19 news and case numbers from around the states and territories

Here's a quick wrap of the COVID-19 news and case numbers from each Australian jurisdiction from the past week.

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Arcturus: What we know about the new Covid variant and its symptoms

XBB.1.16 strain detected in 34 countries so far and is driving up infection rate in India

The Independent UK

Supplies running out at Sudan’s remaining hospitals as healthcare disaster looms

In El Fasher, in North Darfur, only one hospital remains functional, with bomb damage, power cuts and only weeks until lifesaving equipment and drugs run out

The Guardian - UK

Irish government urged to tackle killer air pollution new EU report found is claiming young lives

"We are failing to protect future generations from the health harms arising from toxic air"

Irish Mirror

Covid Arcturus variant has a 'new symptom' in EYES that may be confused for hay fever

Covid XBB.1.16, known commonly as Arcturus, was first detected in January of this year and has since spread across at least 34 countries - and it has a key infection symptom that everyone should be aware of

Daily Mirror

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The Arcturus Covid-19 subvariant is spreading in Australia - but expert says it’s no cause for alarm

Health researchers say new Omicron variant is more transmissible but no evidence to suggest it is more severe

The Guardian - AU

Diplomat Says 15 Syrians Killed Amid Clashes in Sudan

Fifteen Syrians were killed as a result of running clashes in Sudan, Sham FM, a radio and TV station, cited the chargé d’affaires of the Syrian Embassy in Sudan as saying on Wednesday. No injuries were reported among Syrian expats, said the diplomat, adding that all members of the diplomatic…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New COVID-19 subvariant referred to as Arcturus on the rise in Australia. This is what we know about it

Subvariant XBB.1.16 is related to the XBB.1.5 subvariant, which was detected in Australia in January, and both are mutations from the Omicron variant. This is what we know about it.

ABC News

WHO Fears More Deaths in Sudan Due to Outbreaks, Collapse of Services

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects "many more" deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday. Battles between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary since mid-April has killed at least 459 people and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO fears more deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks, collapse of services

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects "many more" deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Sudan: fighting eases during truce as thousands flee country

With partially held ceasefire due to expire on Thursday, UN says neither side ready to seriously negotiate

The Guardian - UK

WHO alert after ‘toxic’ substances found in India-made cough syrup

The medicine is found in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

WHO flags India-made ‘contaminated’ cough syrup with ‘unacceptable amounts’ of toxic chemicals

‘Substandard’ medicine is latest in series of drugs manufactured in India said to be of poor quality

Fortune

The next pandemic could be ‘as infectious as this one but far more lethal’—and make COVID look like a cakewalk, expert warns

“There’s nothing in the book of life that says you couldn’t have a virus that’s as infectious as this one but far more lethal,” he noted.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan confirms its first case of mpox

Pakistani man, 25, diagnosed with the virus, once called monkeypox, after recently arriving from Saudi Arabia.

Evening Standard

Air in every London borough breaches WHO guidelines on toxic nitrogen dioxide

Every single one of almost 2,000 diffusion tubes placed across London detected levels of nitrogen dioxide which breach WHO guidelines

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The Times of India

Guaifenesin, Indian cough syrup, found to have contaminants: WHO

Guaifenesin TG syrup, manufactured by QP Pharmachem Ltd, a Punjab based pharma company, has compounds toxic to human health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

The Independent UK

Arcturus mapped: Is new Covid-19 variant in your region?

New XBB.1.16 variant has made its way to almost every corner of the UK

The Hindu

Morning Digest | Rahul moves Gujarat HC against Surat sessions court order in defamation case; India to host Defence Ministers from SCO grouping, and more

The Hindu’s Morning Digest brings readers a select list of stories to start the day

Fortune

Chelsea Clinton is working to stand up 'the largest childhood immunization effort ever' with the Gates Foundation and the WHO

When it comes to the next pandemic, “we all deserve to hopefully not be as unprepared as I worry we are at the moment," the former president's daughter said at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference Tuesday in Marina del Rey, Calif.

The Independent UK

WHO fires doctor after findings of sexual misconduct

The World Health Organization says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct

The Hindu

Contaminated syrups manufactured in India reported in WHO’s Western Pacific region

It added that the stated manufacturer of the affected product is QP Pharmachem Limited of Punjab, India. The stated marketer of the product is Trillium Pharma of Haryana, India.

France 24

World Malaria Day: Social workers’ activist approach helps reduce cases in India’s Odisha

Malaria is both a curable and preventable disease but it remains deadly in several parts of the globe, claiming the life of one child every two minutes according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). To mark World Malaria Day on Tuesday, FRANCE 24 reported from the state of Odisha in…

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