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XEC: what you need to know about the new COVID variant

A new COVID variant is spreading rapidly and could soon become the dominant variant around the globe. The variant, called XEC, was first detected in Germany in August and appears to have a growth advantage over other circulating variants – but it is not a radically different variant.

The Conversation

Bank of England widely expected to hold interest rates despite big US Fed cut

The Bank of England is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged later Thursday despite a big cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve, its first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than four years ago

The Independent UK

Zoom Fatigue? Try Some Nature In Your Background: Study

Feel drained after a long video call? Whether for work meetings, distance learning at school or just catching up with friends and family, video calls have become a part of daily life for many people -- particularly since the Covid pandemic.

International Business Times

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Jeff Bridges knows he's still your Dude

"The Old Man" star Jeff Bridges loves his legacy: "Lebowski has bloomed in all these different ways"

Salon

Will the XEC COVID subvariant bring a fall wave of infections? What to know about symptoms and spread

The U.S. is coming down from its biggest COVID summer surge yet as a new subvariant emerges—but new vaccines are here, too.

Fortune

OPINION - The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street must take account of buses

The last time Oxford Street came anywhere close to being “pedestrianised” was in the utter depths of the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020. I recall running — okay, perhaps jogging — blissfully along the central white line through a desolate West End from Marble Arch to Centre Point as…

Evening Standard

Donors and Starmer’s suits? That’s just a dress rehearsal. Without new probity rules, worse will follow

Labour made big promises while seeking power. It must fulfil them or risk real damage, says Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale

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The Best of Reason: Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?

America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.

Reason

Everything to know about the 2025 MotoGP season: Rider line-up, calendar and more

The 2025 MotoGP campaign is starting to take shape as all but one of the rides have been announced with the season opener also being confirmed. This came after a dramatic silly season, where only three riders entered 2024 with a contract that guaranteed them a spot on the 2025…

Autosport

Mapped: All the cases of new Covid variant XEC reported in Europe so far

The XEC Covid-19 strain has been detected in at least 15 countries and 12 US states

The Independent UK

Man, 27, dies weeks after receiving Covid vaccine he was wrongly invited to take by NHS

Jack Last died after having the AstraZeneca Covid jab following a ‘litany’ of errors by GP services and the NHS

The Independent UK

Covid variant XEC 'taking charge', experts warn with fears it will sweep across Europe and the US

The new strain was discovered by German scientists in June

Evening Standard

Long-COVID study could unlock new vaccines, treatments

Australian-led research into cells that fight long-COVID has the potential to help shape new coronavirus treatments and vaccines.

AAP

“It’s so difficult. The guitar has got a life of its own and it’s got to move on”: Why Rory Gallagher’s iconic Strat is up for auction now – and the political pressure to keep it in Ireland

Nearly 30 years after Rory Gallagher’s death, we join Rory’s brother Donal to find out why it’s time to let go of his legendary 1961 Fender Stratocaster as it heads to auction

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Evening Standard

What is Covid XEC and what are the symptoms to look out for? Cases surge across the UK

The variant, first detected in Germany, is now soaring across the UK

The Independent UK

New Covid XEC variant starting to spread in Europe – what we know about signs and symptoms

More contagious virus is sublineage of omicron variant, scientists say

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve never been so driven’: Led By Donkeys on mocking Liz Truss, duping Matt Hancock and renaming Michelle Mone’s yacht

The group has campaigned on everything from the PPE scandal to the deaths of children in Gaza with their headline-grabbing guerrilla actions. And they’re only just getting started

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data

Properly organised, the mammoth database of medical information the health service holds has vast potential in the exploration of new treatments

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Only half of Americans plan to get Covid or flu vaccinations this year – study

Study also found that 37% who have gotten vaccines in the past do not plan on getting them this year

Reason

Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?

America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.

The Guardian - UK

Why are prisons so full in England and Wales?

In a week in which the government has been forced to release inmates early, experts point to a confluence of factors in the overcrowding

Evening Standard

Man from west London guilty of encouraging terrorism in anti-vax social media posts during covid pandemic

Patrick Ruane was encourage people to kill over the government’s handling of the covid pandemic

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Here's exactly how the pandemic may have affected your teen's brain, says new study

Teenage girls' and boys' brains have aged faster than normal through the Covid-19 pandemic, findings from a new study have indicated

Evening Standard

Bianca Del Rio on life beyond the West End, bonding with Dame Judi Dench and eyeing Strictly Come Dancing

EXCLUSIVE: The US star reflected on a decade of success after winning Drag Race in 2014

Latin Times

Woman with Covid convicted of homicide for fatally infecting neighbor

DNA evidence confirmed she transmitted the virus to her neighbor, who died of pneumonia caused by COVID-19.

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