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What will the Covid inquiry look at – and when will we get answers?

Independent inquiry begins hearing evidence on Tuesday – but is not due to conclude until 2026

The Guardian - UK

Wes Anderson says Bill Murray misconduct allegations won’t affect their working relationship

Director, who has worked with Murray on nine of his 11 films, says it was Covid-19, not misconduct allegations, that stopped the actor appearing in his latest film Asteroid City

The Guardian - AU

Privileges Committee finds Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament – report

The Privileges Committee has reportedly rejected the assertion that senior officials advised him that Covid rules and guidance had been followed.

The Independent UK

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Faces of Brit Covid victims - whose families deserve truth about No.10 pandemic handling

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice action group put forward 20 families to act as witnesses but none have been chosen to given evidence in Module 1

Daily Mirror

Kate Beckinsale ‘heart broken’ after her legendary cat Clive dies

Clive became a hit on social media during the Covid pandemic

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson trade blows as Tory civil war erupts over peerages

The Prime Minister and his predecessor indulged in a public slanging match over Johnson’s bid to give peerages to his cheerleaders

Daily Mirror

Gov. Greg Abbott says he won’t renew his COVID-19 disaster declaration later this week

Texas appears to be the last state with a broad pandemic declaration, which was begun in 2020, still in place.

The Texas Tribune

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We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others

Australia is in its fifth COVID wave, which has been brewing since February. It has grown slowly so many people may have not realised it.

The New Daily

We're in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others

Each Omicron wave so far in Australia has had distinguishing features – the sharp rise and fall of BA.1, the widespread transmission among children and families in BA.2, a shift to more infections in older people with BA.5, then the confusing variant mix in the summer wave of 2022-23.

The Conversation

Covid-19 Inquiry: What is happening this week and why it matters

More than three years on from the first lockdown, the Inquiry will carry out the first in-depth investigation into what happened during the Covid crisis, which led to more than 227,000 deaths in the UK

Daily Mirror

UK Covid inquiry to hold first public hearing amid continuing row over evidence

The investigation is split into six modules, with public hearings expected to last until 2026

Evening Standard

Millions who had COVID still can’t smell or taste, new study reports: ‘Many people never fully recovered those senses'

Nearly 28 million Americans may still be coping with COVID-related loss of taste and/or smell, according to new research.

Fortune

Book a memoir, not an autobiography, says Shailaja

The book captured vividly how a politically aware family shaped the personality and political outlook of Ms. Shailaja as a brave comrade which stood her in great stead while leading the State’s fight against the Nipah and the Coronavirus outbreaks.

The Hindu

Book Review: Lisa See’s ‘Lady Tan’s Circle of Women’ celebrates a Ming Dynasty physician

Soon after she published her last novel, 2019’s “The Island of Sea Women,” Lisa See joined much of the rest of the world in seclusion, sheltering at her Los Angeles home to avoid the deadly coronavirus

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Long COVID: effects on fatigue and quality of life can be comparable to some cancers – new research

As of March 2023, the Office for National Statistics estimated that 1.7 million people in the UK were living with self-reported long COVID. This refers to symptoms, including fatigue and brain fog among many others, that continue for more than 12 weeks after the initial COVID infection.

The Guardian - UK

Minister refuses to back Hancock Covid claim of ‘protective ring’ for care homes

Helen Whately declines to endorse former health secretary’s 2020 assertion as pandemic public inquiry begins in earnest

Chronicle Live

Government's Covid pandemic messaging 'failed people with learning disabilities' says Gateshead MP

Liz Twist MP has slammed the Government's Covid-19 communications which she said "failed" disabled people.

Newslaundry

CoWIN data leak: Aadhaar, passport details, phone numbers of lakhs of Indians made public on Telegram

In a major data breach, private information of lakhs of Indians registered on the CoWIN app to avail Covid-19 vaccination has reportedly been leaked to private players.

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The Independent UK

The fall of Boris Johnson: How we got here and what comes next

In the fog of the Tory civil war it’s good to know how we got here, writes Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

UK parliamentary committee to conclude Boris Johnson 'partygate' inquiry

A U.K. parliamentary committee is meeting to conclude its inquiry into whether former Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled lawmakers over parties at his Downing Street office that breached COVID-19 lockdown restrictions

Dublin Live

NCT bosses hit out at proposed fines as motorists face delays

Officials blamed Covid-19 for the heavy backlog in NCT exams

Birmingham Post

Croda forecasts narrower profits for 2023 after record year

Customer destocking highlighted by East Yorkshire giant

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson accuses government of 'frustrating' Covid Inquiry over WhatsApps

The former Prime Minister lashed out at the Government for waging a legal fight - and blocking him, he claims, from giving his unredacted material to the probe

Irish Mirror

Silvio Berlusconi - the scandal-scarred ex-Italian Prime Minister and boastful billionaire - dies aged 86

Berlusconi was hospitalised in Milan on April 5 with a lung infection - he also suffered over the years from heart ailments, prostate cancer and was hospitalized for COVID-19 in 2020

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock — the freak show

Isabel Oakeshott leaked the former health secretary’s WhatsApp messages and has hit the stage to reveal more. Robbie Griffiths reports

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