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Numbers of asylum seekers in France close to pre-Covid record

Nearly 131,000 people asked for asylum in France in 2022 – a 27 percent increase from the year before and close to the record high from before the Covid pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

In a post-pandemic world, we need a new social contract for work

Companies need to develop new social and psychological contracts with their employees, according to Mercer CEO Martine Ferland.

Fortune

Financial worries keep many Chinese at home

About 40% of Chinese travellers aren’t planning to venture overseas this year despite the sudden easing of restrictions, mainly because of the financial impact of Covid, according to a survey published on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

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People who catch Covid are five times more likely to die for up to 18 months

The findings of the study show that the chances of death remained five times higher up to 18 months later

Irish Mirror

Heartfelt tributes pour in for 'wonderful' DCU professor following death

The double lung and kidney transplant survivor has just last week spoken about his harrowing experience in hospital after being diagnosed with Covid-19

Dublin Live

James Dyson attacks Rishi Sunak’s ‘shortsighted, stupid’ tax policies

UK entrepreneur says economic strategy has left Britain in a ‘Covid inertia’ and calls for growth plan

The Guardian - UK

Zero-Covid Left in Dust as Chinese Revelers Fuel Travel Boom

Armed with selfie sticks and freshly recovered from Covid, Chinese tourists ambled through bar streets in the country's backpacker haven of Dali, partying the stress of the past three years into oblivion. As Lunar New Year approaches, China is seeing a domestic travel boom after the government abruptly dismantled its…

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Dis Life: 'Education decision makers focus on attendance rather than roots of absence'

School, especially secondary school, is often the worst environment in which the 1.5 million kids with disabilities and mental health distress can thrive and learn

Daily Mirror

Fisher: This Year Will Deliver a Big Surprise — and Big Returns — for Stock Investors

After nearly two gloomy years, it isn’t easy to imagine a brighter 2023. But Chinese stocks’ recent rise shows that there are better days ahead for the market

Caixin Global

Hong Kong to scrap isolation rule for new COVID-19 cases

Hong Kong's leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 from Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return to normalcy

The Independent UK

New Zealand's Ardern leaves legacy of kindness, disappointments

Jacinda Ardern has put tiny New Zealand on the map in her five years as prime minister, becoming a global icon for left-leaning politics and women in leadership, even as she struggled at home with the economy and COVID-19 restrictions.

Reuters

China's population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet's population turns down

China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1959-1961.

The Conversation

Launceston's Boag's Brewery stops tours and closes visitors centre, putting 13 jobs on the line

Brewery operators say the impact of COVID-19 and declining beer consumption is forcing them to close the visitors centre and stop tours at the end of the month.

ABC News

People who catch Covid five times more likely of dying 18 months after infection

Study involving 150,000 participants shows the likelihood of Covid-19 patients dying was up to 81 times higher in the first three weeks

Wales Online

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‘Hybrid’ COVID immunity from vaccination and infection is superior to that from infection alone, new WHO-backed study finds

The study shows "the advantages of vaccination even after people have had COVID-19," the international public health organization says.

The Independent UK

Defibrillators in telephone booths long preceded COVID

A movement to retrofit telephone kiosks with defibrillators across the U.K. is more than a decade old and didn’t result from the coronavirus or vaccines, according to Community Heartbeat Trust, the nonprofit that originated the idea

Evening Standard

Marble Arch: Covid-hit London destination introduces loyalty app to reignite shopping

One of London’s busiest shopping districts is looking to compete against online shopping by encouraging high street spending with its own loyalty app.

ABC News

ATAGI is considering a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose, but how many boosters should I already have and who is eligible?

The federal government is waiting on advice about whether Australians should have a fifth COVID-19 vaccine. So, how many people have had the current boosters and who is eligible for what?

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As wait times and the financial pressures of COVID-19 increase, more people across Australia are delaying seeing the dentist

Dental practitioners say they're seeing a rise in tooth decay and damage, particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

The Independent UK

Poet Michael Rosen marches with nurses out of ‘gratitude’ after his Covid coma

The 76-year-old said he was in hospital for three months after being put in an induced coma after falling seriously ill with Covid in March 2020.

Reuters

Davos 2023: China recovery could be very quick - IMF's Gopinath

China could see a sharp recovery in economic growth from the second quarter onwards based on current infection trends after the dismantling of most COVID-19 restrictions, IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

‘Humanity hit a brick wall’: John Cale on the Velvets, Nico, Covid and a gun-ridden world gone bad

As he hits 80 and releases a softly raging album inspired by the ugliness of the pandemic years, the ever restless and eternally avant-garde musician unburdens himself

Newsroom.co.nz

Summer break replaced with reshuffles and resets for MPs

The rest from the public eye is over for Jacinda Ardern and Christopher Luxon who will both make announcements from their caucus retreats in Napier on Thursday

The Independent UK

Fed's Powell tests positive for COVID, has 'mild' symptoms

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms,” the Federal Reserve announced

Irish Mirror

World's oldest person dies at 118 after surviving two World Wars and Covid-19 pandemic

She lived through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and in 2021 she shrugged off Covid with few symptoms

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