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Lisa Shaw, 44, who worked for BBC Radio Newcastle, died a week after her first jab

Labour leader Ivana Bacik, meanwhile, suggested that the underspend indicated that Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien was “out of his depth”

The World Health Organization chief pressed China on Thursday to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged.

"Another shopping place that has gone downhill"

In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic precautions have been largely abandoned, mask mandates in healthcare settings do little to prevent coronavirus infections among patients.

COVID-19 isn’t “just a flu,” with a study of hospital patients finding that the virus was still 60% deadlier than influenza last winter.

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

MIAMI — In rare cases, COVID-19 can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus, researchers at the University of Miami Health System and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced Thursday.

While such outcomes are rare, those who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant need to be cognizant of the risks COVID poses to fetuses, one expert tells Fortune.

Items touched by infected person can act as vector for transmission of the virus

Infection rates were compared from December 2021 to June 2022, when masks were compulsory for all pa­­­tients and staff, and June to September 2022 when the policy was relaxed