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Could bird flu be the next Covid? Why experts are worried after two new human cases are confirmed in Britain

Pet owners are being urged to keep cats indoors and dogs on a leash after two poultry workers became the fourth and fifth Brits to become infected with bird flu this week — so how worried should we be about the virus? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Mask On, Mask Off: New York Trying Everything Except Not Telling People What To Do

Mayor Eric Adams frets that COVID-19 masks are making it too easy for shoplifters to evade facial recognition.

Reason

Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020

The Independent UK

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The coronavirus has infected New York City's rats. Why that's bad news for people

Rats, whose populations in cities exploded during the pandemic, have now joined the list of wildlife believed to be capable of catching and transmitting the virus that causes COVID-19, new research finds.

Los Angeles Times

UK Covid infections up for fifth week in a row

The percentage of people testing positive has risen among over-70s in England.

The Independent UK

London NHS nurses to sing at event marking 3 years of pandemic

A choir featuring London NHS nurses will perform at an event on Friday to mark three years since the World Health Organisation (WHO) designated Covid-19 as a pandemic.

Evening Standard

House clears COVID-19 intelligence measure - Roll Call

The House on Friday sent to the president legislation that would declassify information related to the origin of COVID-19.

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Was the Covid pandemic bad for mental health? It depends who you ask

A report has been seized upon to argue that lockdown had little effect on mental health – but the truth is more nuanced, says public health professor Devi Sridhar

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Setting the record straight on Redfield, racism and the origins of COVID

“I think the most upsetting thing to me was The Baltimore Sun calling me a racist because I said this came from a Wuhan lab.”

Tribune News Service

Constipation, bloating and diarrhoea join list of Long Covid complaints, say scientists

Research based on medical records of millions of people who contracted coronavirus during the pandemic

Wales Online

Downing Street won't rule out Covid having started in a Wuhan lab leak

The Prime Minister's spokesman said the theory remains 'on the table'

Wales Online

Malaysia ex-premier Muhyiddin charged with corruption

Malaysia's former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged Friday with accepting bribes and money laundering linked to the alleged misuse of a Covid economic recovery fund.

Bangkok Post

Malaysia’s ex-PM Muhyiddin Yassin charged with corruption

Former leader faces trial on charges of money laundering and abuse of power over COVID-19 contracts.

Al Jazeera

The 'insurance policy' that turned out to be unsuitable

A review into the Garran Surge Centre showed it was not suitable.

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The Conversation

Suicide attempts rose among children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for girls

Will the kids be alright? There was hope that children and adolescents would “bounce back” as the pandemic progressed, but sadly, the data suggest otherwise.

Caixin Global

Covid Vaccinations Cost China $21.5 Billion Over Two Years

National Healthcare Security Administration reports on condition of the national health insurance fund, which still has $618 billion

ABC News

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

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

Bangkok Post

Where the old meets new

The Chao Phraya River is never short of energy. As businesses in Bangkok are making a grand recovery after Covid, new dining venues have popped up relentlessly along the banks of the river.

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AAP

Research shows rise in nicotine use during early COVID

Australia's nicotine consumption increased by 30 per cent in the early stages of the pandemic due to high stress and restrictions, researchers suggest.

Chicago Sun-Times

Susana Mendoza urges legislators to mandate full pension benefits for cops, firefighters who survive COVID-19

The Illinois comptroller choked up telling a House panel how her brother, a Chicago cop, was left disabled by COVID but denied full disability benefits.

The New Daily

Three years into pandemic, it’s clear COVID won’t fix itself. This is what we need to focus on

On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organisation classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. Three years on, it remains just that. As much as we don’t want it to

Wales Online

UK's 'gold standard' Covid survey to stop recording data

Health officials say the survey will be "paused" from March 31. Any new surveys will be announced “in due course”.

The Conversation

Three years into the pandemic, it's clear COVID won't fix itself. Here's what we need to focus on next

On March 11 2020 the World Health Organization classified COVID as a pandemic. Three years on, it remains just that.

The Canberra Times

Experts raise doubts over uni's Indian medicine partnership

Western Sydney University is linked with body promoting unproven COVID cures.

The Independent UK

UK’s ‘gold standard’ Covid-19 infection survey to stop collecting data

The survey has run continuously for nearly three years.

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