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Coronavirus updates | January 21, 2022

Harbhajan Singh tests positive for COVID-19, under home quarantine

The Hindu

Irish Cabinet to consider recommendations to ease Covid-19 restrictions

The National Public Health Emergency Team met on Thursday night and agreed to recommend most measures can be relaxed.

The Independent UK

Covid-19: Tests increase after festival, so do cases in Secunderabad

SECUNDERABAD: The number of daily Covid-19 RT-PCR tests, which have come down during the festival and the weekend, have seen a sudden spike after Sankranti in Secunderabad Cantonment.

The Times of India

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NSW Covid update: another record day as state reports 46 deaths but hospital numbers down

Chief health officer Kerry Chant warns deaths ‘likely to remain high’ for some time given lag from case numbers

The Guardian - AU

Delaying elective surgery could spark ‘massive healthcare crisis’ in Victoria, experts warn

Doctors and patients criticise state government decision to suspend procedures during Covid wave

The Guardian - AU

Partygate: Police commissioners say there ‘wasn’t capacity’ to investigate past Covid breaches

Retrospective investigations were ‘just not going to be an option,’ a PCC said

The Independent UK

Covid live: Ireland to lift almost all curbs from 6am on Saturday; France reports 400,851 new cases — as it happened

Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin says ‘we have weathered the Omicron storm’; France reports 400,851 daily cases and 233 Covid-linked hospital deaths

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How to Prevent COVID’s Next Comeback

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Foreign Affairs

Education Secretary to vet local plans to bring back masks in schools

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday that masks would be scrapped in school classrooms from Thursday.

The Independent UK

Green light given for Irish Government to lift majority of Covid restrictions

It is understood the National Public Health Emergency Team has recommended the lifting of restrictions in the hospitality sector.

The Independent UK

Breathalyzer tests back as Covid dips

KOLKATA: With a spurt in drink-driving cases as well as a dip in Covid cases, cops have reintroduced breathalyzer test on Wednesday night.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Rise in Covid pneumonia patients prompts hospital concern over emerging variants

KOLKATA: Doctors are seeing a steady rise in the number of patients being admitted to ICU with Covid pneumonia over the past couple of days.

The Times of India

Kolkata: Get jabbed twice, claim property tax discount

KOLKATA: To encourage people to take both the doses of Covid vaccine, South Dum Dum Municipality is planning to allow a 25% relaxation on unpaid property tax if all the family members of the household furnish their vaccination certificate.

The Times of India

Kolkata Municipal Corporation combs ‘high-infection’ areas to detect new Covid cases

KOLKATA: The drop in the number of Covid cases and micro-containment zones notwithstanding, civic health department officials are wary about the numbers and fear the actual numbers may be a lot more. They feel the situation may spiral out of control if corrective steps are not taken immediately.

The Times of India

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91% bereaved families apply for Covid relief in Bengal, 80% paid

KOLKATA: Bengal has received as many as 18,554 Covid death compensation claims, or 91% of the total recorded deaths of 20,231, and honoured nearly 80% of those, spending nearly Rs 75 crore from the State Disaster Response Fund, even as claims from Kolkata — which has had the highest share…

The Times of India

Absenteeism, lack of resource slow down Hyderabad realty sector

HYDERABAD: The steady rise in Covid-19 cases has started slow down work in the city’s real estate sector.

The Times of India

Most vulnerable frontline workers hit hard by Covid

HYDERABAD: While there is a significant spike in the number of Covid-19 cases across the city, a substantial number of them happened to be frontline workers from Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), police and health departments.

Chicago Sun-Times

Seth Jones’ return boosts Blackhawks as games against Wild, Avalanche loom

Jones and Dylan Strome will return from COVID-19 on Friday — and Kirby Dach might, too — as the increasingly healthy Hawks begin a brutal stretch of matchups.

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The Independent UK

Covid-19: Which coronavirus rules are changing across the UK?

All four nations have seen a drop in case numbers.

Wales Online

Welsh Government confirms almost all Level 2 Covid restrictions will be lifted in next eight days

From Friday, January 21, all restrictions on outdoor activities and events will be lifted in Wales

The Independent UK

Nightclubs on track to reopen by end of month in Wales, says First Minister

Mark Drakeford said Wales would complete the move to alert level zero on January 28 unless the coronavirus situation deteriorates.

Dublin Live

Covid-19 Ireland: Dublin pubs 'ready to open doors this weekend' after green light given for major easing of restrictions

Health chiefs have advised the Government that almost all restrictions can be lifted, including the requirement for vaccine passes and the early closure of bars

Daily Record

List of countries fully vaccinated Scots can travel to without Covid test

Travelling has been somewhat difficult for many of us over the past two years due to the pandemic.

Irish Mirror

Covid Ireland: Full list of expected changes as Micheal Martin to announce end of most restrictions

The major changes come after Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan delivered a bombshell letter to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly

Reason

Shutdown of Gun Stores During Early COVID Months Violated Second Amendment

So holds a Ninth Circuit panel—with the authoring judge penning a hypothetical dissent, to illustrate his view that the Ninth Circuit's Second Amendment precedents are too malleable. From McDougall v. County of Ventura, today's opinion by Judge Lawrence Vandyke joined by Judge Ryan Nelson: "[T]he right of the people to…

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