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KSCPCR to study mobile phone addiction among children in Karnataka

K. Naganna Gowda, Chairperson of KSCPCR, told The Hindu, “...during Covid-19 and post-pandemic, schools were conducting classes online. Children are now addicted to mobile phones. Even if Covid-19 pandemic is eradicated from India, there are no signs that this mobile obsession will end.”

The Hindu

Why is a bed-bug epidemic sweeping across the UK?

The cost-of-living crisis, post-Covid travel and climate change are all driving a bed-bug epidemic that is sweeping the UK.

The Week

Can dogs really detect Covid-19 infections faster and more accurately than a lateral flow test?

Results indicated that not only can dogs detect Covid faster, but they can also do so in a non-intrusive manner - so no need to swab your throat or nose

The Independent UK

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Can dogs get COVID? Yes, and they're not the only pets that can ....

COVID is thought to have originated in animals—and even if the lab leak theory is true, animals may have played a role in early transmission of the virus.

Fortune

Harrods bounces back after pandemic hit as big spenders return to London

Knightsbridge department store reported 52% sales increase in year to January as impact of Covid-19 subsides

The Guardian - UK

Sage Steele, ESPN settle lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccine comments

Steele posted on social media Tuesday that she is leaving the company, where she has worked since 2007.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sage Steele leaves ESPN after settling her lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccine comments

ESPN and host Sage Steele have settled the lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made in 2021 about the company’s policy requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine

The Independent UK

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Updated Covid vaccines are nearly ready as alarm grows over new variant’s rapid spread

The new shot will be rolled out in the third or fourth week of September, according to Reuters

The Independent UK

Business travel, just like almost everything from pre-COVID life, is going back to normal

The $1.4 trillion projection for next year would match 2019’s number.

Fortune

‘It’s the first major work about the referendum’: how Scotland’s big moment finally made good drama

A drunken and divided dinner party in 2014 is the setting for Peter Arnott’s Chekhovian new comedy. But almost a decade on from the independence vote, why did it take so long?

The Guardian - UK

Teesside woman accused of carrying out own abortion pleads not guilty

Bethany Cox, 22, will face trial next year over offences alleged to have taken place during first Covid lockdown in 2020

The Guardian - UK

Put children at heart of pandemic inquiry, Covid chairwoman told

Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has written to Baroness Heather Hallett, urging her to prioritise young people.

The Independent UK

Helping the world during and after COVID has established India as a friend to the world: PM Modi

As part of the celebrations, fifty nurses along with their family members from across the country were invited as special guests to witness and participate in the celebrations.

The Hindu

Mysterious new long Covid symptom identified by scientists

The research detailed a new symptom of long Covid after a 33-year-old man was referred to a specialist clinic

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

The Edinburgh fringe is back! But is it still the heart of the comedy scene?

After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup’s career – if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma

Newsroom.co.nz

Covid-19: Don't believe your lying eyes

The hundreds of Covid-19 deaths, thousands of hospitalisations and tens of thousands of Long Covid patients won't disappear just because the country has plugged its ears to the virus.

Newsroom.co.nz

Hipkins reaches back into his hat after 'boondoggle' policy

Comment: What better time to celebrate paid parental leave extensions and the end of Covid-19 than 24 hours after being hammered by economists and commentators on an unworkable tax policy?

The Guardian - AU

Car park fees and other charges kept Australia’s big airports profitable during Covid recovery

Airports lost money on aviation operations between 2021 and 2023 but car parking remained a huge source of income

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The Independent UK

Mysterious new long Covid symptom identified by scientists

The research detailed a new symptom of long Covid after a 33-year-old man was referred to a specialist clinic

The Guardian - US

New Covid variant Eris is reminder to monitor virus data, US experts say

Variant is anticipated evolution but exact scope of virus is difficult to discern because of limited surveillance, experts say

The Texas Tribune

“We’d lose one after the next”: Texas bats face a pandemic of their own

Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Texas, a biologist found a dead bat covered in a white fungus — the state’s first official case of white-nose syndrome. Now, scientists are on a mission to understand how many bats have been lost.

The Guardian - UK

Government has no timetable for returning asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge – as it happened

Downing Street says it hopes to return people to the boat ‘as soon as possible’ but declines to give timeframe

The Conversation

'Stay safe' – Vale Mary-Louise McLaws, a champion for the power of clear science communication

When the COVID pandemic hit, epidemiologist Professor Emeritus Mary-Louise McLaws AO became the go-to expert for many journalists across the media spectrum. With new research being released daily, access to calm, reliable and knowledgeable experts like Mary-Louise – or “ML” as she was known to her friends – became paramount…

The Independent UK

New Zealand, whose pandemic response was closely watched, removes last of COVID-19 restrictions

New Zealand has removed the last of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, marking the end of a government response to the pandemic that was watched closely around the world

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: The new variant that’s a reminder the pandemic never fully ended

In today’s newsletter: The ‘Eris’ strain of Covid is a reminder that the virus has never fully gone away – but what will it mean for Britain?

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