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The country registered 129 more Covid-19 fatalities and 14,053 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced.

Bangkok Post

ACT COVID-19 hospital admissions decrease

The ACT reported 1072 new infections in the latest reporting period.

The Canberra Times

Ecuador lifts indoor and outdoor mask mandates

Ecuador will immediately lift mask mandates for both indoor and outdoor spaces thanks to significant gains made against coronavirus, President Guillermo Lasso said on Thursday.

Reuters

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S.Korea lifts outdoor mask mandate, incoming gov't concerned

South Korea said on Friday it will lift an outdoor face mask mandate next week in the country's latest step to ease COVID-19 restrictions, despite opposition from the incoming government which labelled the decision "premature".

Reuters

Saitama Toyopet reveals driver change for Fuji SUPER GT race

The Saitama Toyopet Green Brave team has revealed that Hiroki Yoshida will miss next week's Fuji SUPER GT round after testing positive for COVID-19.

Motorsport

Cases close non-COVID Tas hospital wards

Three patients have tested positive for COVID-19 in non-virus Tasmanian hospital wards, prompting authorities to close the areas to new admissions and visitors.

AAP

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

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each state and territory.

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Expats flee as Shanghai's COVID lockdown drags

Shanghai's heavy-handed COVID-19 lockdown is driving scores of foreign residents to flee the commercial centre, denting the appeal of mainland China's most cosmopolitan city and prompting others to rethink their futures in the metropolis.

Reuters

Tourist favourite Thailand's recovery lags on COVID rule changes

When 23-year-old Norwegian Anastasia Johansen and her boyfriend were planning their first vacation in two years, they considered going to Thailand but chose nearby Vietnam instead, for its simpler entry rules on the coronavirus.

Reuters

Vic looks at pandemic's mental health toll

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry will look at the mental health toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AAP

White House: Paxlovid shortage is over

As VP Harris takes Paxlovid after her COVID-19 diagnosis, the White House is making the drug easier to access

Salon

Covid spike hasn’t shown makings of a wave, say experts

PUNE: It would not be correct to interpret the recent spike in Covid cases in states such as Delhi and Maharashtra as the start of another Covid wave, leading health experts told TOI on Thursday.

The Times of India

A footy legend said 'heart issues and Bell's palsy has gone through the roof since the boosters'. Is he correct?

Despite what AFL legend Matthew Lloyd has claimed, there is no evidence to suggest heart issues "have gone through the roof" as a result of COVID-19 vaccines.

ABC News

Highest COVID-19 case count for Illinois in two months

The state public health department has noted that severe cases ending in hospitalization or death have remained very low — though hospital figures are now on the rise.

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Bangkok Post

Thailand Pass stays, but in 'faster form'

The government has said it has not cancelled the Thailand Pass registration requirement for foreign travellers yet but it will be made more convenient and quicker to obtain.

The Canberra Times

As it happened: As Albo leaves isolation, another Labor leader enters it

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese is out of isolation from COVID-19 as he will take a gradual approach to campaigning on advice of his doctor.

The Times of India

West Bengal: Wednesday Covid tally crosses 50 1st time since April 2, dips to 34 on Thursday

KOLKATA: The number of daily new Covid cases crossed 50 in Bengal on Wednesday, for the first time since April 2, when it was 70. Since April 23, there has been a slow rise in the number of new cases and the figure reached 52 on Wednesday. On Thursday, however,…

The Times of India

100 years before Covid, this Kolkata doctor had told us to mask up

KOLKATA: A hundred years before the use of pathogen-preventive masks burst onto the public consciousness with the appearance of the Covid pandemic, a Kolkata doctor had written extensively about the significance of masks in preventing infectious diseases, and had even described, in a manual, how to make such a mask.

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The Times of India

Covid: 26 IIT-M students test positive; 44 fresh cases in Chennai

CHENNAI: The cluster tally at IIT-M rose to 171 on Thursday after 26 more students tested positive for the viral infection. Fresh cases across the state dropped marginally to 73 compared to 77 on Wednesday. After discharging 32 patients, the state had 488 active patients, an increase from 447 a…

The Times of India

Maharashtra teen vaccine drive, booster cover way behind India’s average

MUMBAI: About 90% of the eligible population (12 years+) in the state have received at least one shot of Covid-19 vaccine while 71% have got both doses, shows the state’s latest figures.

Daily Mirror

Sharon Osbourne texts Piers Morgan she feels 'cursed' as Ozzy, 73, battles coronavirus

Piers Morgan said Sharon Osbourne had text him saying she feels like her family is "cursed" after she flew to LA to be by her husband Ozzy's bedside as he battles coronavirus on Thursday

ABC News

Is the end of Western Australia's mask mandate reason to celebrate or cause for anxiety?

Mark McGowan says it's "unlikely" the mask mandate will be reintroduced but he can't rule it out as peak health bodies warn restrictions may need to be reinstated if there is a spike in hospitalisations. It comes as vulnerable West Australians express their anxiety as masks come off across the…

The Times of India

Maharashtra: PM Narendra Modi used meet to taunt CMs of oppn-ruled states, says Sanjay Raut

MUMBAI: Calling prime minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with chief ministers of states on Covid-19 a “one-sided conversation,” Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday said the meeting was used to “taunt CMs of non-BJP-ruled states.” Raut also tweeted a copy of an FIR against independent MP Navneet Rana registered at…

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Scott Morrison suggests ‘remarkable similarity’ between China and Solomon Islands rhetoric – as it happened

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Gurugram: 100% booster coverage for frontline, health workers by July

GURUGRAM: The health department has asked the district administration and hospitals in the city to prepare a list of employees who are yet to take the Covid-19 precautionary dose, as it aims for 100% booster dose coverage of frontline and healthcare workers by the end of June.

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