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TV Newsance 195: Covid in China and Bharat Jodo Yatra as a ‘superspreader’

The big news of the week is the rapid spread of Covid in China. We look at China’s zero-Covid policy, why it failed and what’s really happening in our neighbouring country with the big Omicron spike. Should India be worried? Meanwhile, Arnab Goswami, Navika Kumar and the usual suspects on…

Newslaundry

Is California’s winter COVID-19 surge sputtering?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s early yet, but there are signs the dreaded holiday surge in COVID-19 cases may be losing steam, with cases and deaths at a fraction of the levels seen around the same time in 2020 and 2021.

Tribune News Service

Omicron Subvariant XBB Jumps to 18% of US COVID Cases

The highly contagious Omicron subvariant XBB jumped to 18% of national prevalence and accounted for more than 50% of COVID-19 cases in the Northeast, coinciding with holiday travel for millions of Americans. In the week ended Dec.

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How long can you test positive for Covid and when are you infectious?

As Christmas looms Covid cases are rising and warnings about reducing contact are being issued

The Independent UK

2022: The year the pandemic dragged on

Vaccines and boosters weren't enough to protect us from what mutated into the most infectious virus ever known

Salon

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As the world has recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic's three-year assault, the Tiger will hand the baton off to the Rabbit. The 2022 countdown celebration was ultimately toned down when Omicron infections quickly spread and the number of new Covid-19 cases in Thailand exceeded 20,000 in February.

Bangkok Post

COVID drugs: the UK's treatment and prevention options and how vulnerable people are being forgotten

In February 2022, the UK government abandoned its remaining pandemic restrictions in favour of “living with COVID”. This approach relies largely on vaccines protecting people from severe disease.

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The strict laws we were all living under this time last year that seem hard to believe now

What a difference a year has made

Wales Online

The best movies of 2022 — and where to find them

The movies returned at something close to full force this year. COVID masks all but vanished from multiplex crowds, and from the audiences at the press screenings I attended (though I kept mine handy). Sundance did cancel its in-person screenings for the second January in a row, thanks to the…

Los Angeles Times

Shop warns ‘use us or lose us this Christmas' during difficult times for Bristol's high streets

Footfall is worse than Christmas 2021 when Omicron was rife

Bristol Post

China reports first 2 COVID deaths since easing rules, but numbers don’t stack up

More than a month after China started seeing an exponential surge in COVID cases, the country has only reported two virus deaths, defying the experience of other, more vaccinated and better resourced places as they reopened and fueling suspicion the true scale of fatalities is being hidden.

Tribune News Service

Was 2022 the year that Australia came to terms with Covid? And what does 2023 hold?

New antivirals, more research on long Covid and, hopefully, treatments: Experts say we’re now in a ‘totally different era’

The Guardian - AU

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports

The CDC came out with two studies to detail the bivalent booster's effectiveness against COVID-related emergency department visits and hospitalization.

WEKU

Covid NI: Belfast virologist on new Omicron strain and what to expect this Christmas

"There are many other variants alongside BQ.1 that could come into play more over the mixing during Christmas"

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Fortune

Omicron subvariants dominating the U.S. have ‘alarming’ ability to evade both immunity and medical treatments, scientists warn

Researchers dubbed the BQ and XBB strains of COVID-19 “the most resistant to date.”

Nottingham Post

New Covid variant BF.7 in UK can infect 3 times as many people and beat vaccine

Scientists say it can also beat the vaccine

Wales Online

New Covid variant BF.7 can infect three times as many people and beat vaccine

The Omicron subvariant, detected in the UK, is driving a huge surge in infections across China

Reuters

In COVID U-turn, China's message to the people shifts from war to self-care

On Nov. 21, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, in charge of China's war on COVID-19, said infections had to be brought down to zero as they emerged. Nine days later, she said the Omicron strain of the virus had "weakened" even though new cases in the Chinese capital hit a high.

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The Conversation

COVID: what we know about new omicron variant BF.7

Since the COVID variant omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants. One subvariant, BF.7, has recently been identified as the main variant spreading in Beijing, and is contributing to a wider surge of COVID infections in China.

The Guardian - UK

China scraps tracking app as zero-Covid policy is dismantled

Health authorities sound warning on infection rate, with hundreds of thousands of doctors redeployed across the country

The Guardian - AU

Is my RAT actually working? How to tell if your Covid test can detect Omicron

If you’re buying a RAT, you can check the TGA’s table to find out if the brand has been tested for sensitivity to newer variants

The Conversation

Is my RAT actually working? How to tell if your COVID test can detect Omicron

You’ve tested negative for COVID using a rapid antigen test (RAT), but are a close contact of a positive family member and have symptoms. So you might be wondering if you’re really COVID-negative or if the test is working as well as it should.

Fortune

In 2022 workers won the return-to-office battle with their bosses

A year-in-review of the hybrid work wars.

Fortune

COVID, flu, RSV: The benefits of advocating for boosters in the workplace–and how to go about it

The return to the office has turned into a superspreader event.

Bangkok Post

Thailand sees uptick in cases

An increasing number of Covid-19 patients have been reported in Bangkok and other tourist destinations since the Omicron subvariant BA.2.75 has become dominant in Thailand, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC).

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