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China’s flu infections are on the rise as COVID-19 ebbs

China’s flu infections rose while COVID-19 cases continued to drop from a December peak after the nation eased pandemic restrictions.

Tribune News Service

What to know about SNAP benefits returning to pre-pandemic amounts

After the cuts, payments will go down to about $6.10 per person, per day. That's around $2 a meal.

Axios

Billionaire Manchester United bidder's hotel chain netted £3m in public Covid grants

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Lime Wood Group Ltd got huge aid during the Covid pandemic but the businessman is worth £6.075billion, according to 2022 Sunday Times Rich list

Daily Mirror

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Why scammers who stole billions in unemployment benefits may get away with fraud

WASHINGTON — Just a small percentage of the at least $60 billion in unemployment payments estimated to be lost to fraud during the pandemic has been recovered, and time is running out to prosecute those who committed the crime.

Los Angeles Times

Teen mental health is in a sad state

The COVID pandemic was rough on everybody. Fear and sorrow were ubiquitous, and not just among high school girls.

Chicago Sun-Times

World Bank Promises ‘Concessionality’ in Debt Restructuring

The World Bank will "provide as much concessionality to the debt treatment" for distressed economies as possible, its president told a meeting with the International Monetary Fund, India, China, and other creditor nations on Saturday. The remarks come amid calls by China, the world's largest bilateral creditor, that global lenders…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Econometer: Will California continue to see a population decrease?

California's population shrank by 508,903 people during the first two years of the pandemic, second behind only New York.

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Remote work helped push disability employment up to a record high

An embrace of remote work spurred by the pandemic helped the employment rate for disabled people reach an all-time high last year.

Tribune News Service

Bird flu: How the UK health authorities are working to prevent a pandemic

Scientists investigating despite low chance of spread among humans

The Independent UK

China’s Exports May Recover in Second Half, Economists Predict

Global economic uncertainty and lingering pandemic effects still weigh on demand abroad this quarter, but stimulus should bolster domestic consumption

Caixin Global

What is spillover? Bird flu outbreak underscores need for early detection to prevent the next big pandemic

The current epidemic of avian influenza has killed over 58 million birds in the U.S. as of February 2023. Following on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, large outbreaks of viruses like bird flu raise the specter of another disease jumping from animals into humans. This process is called spillover.

The Conversation

Australian sports betting turnover passes $50 billion per year, outpacing penalties

The value of bets taken by Australian sports gambling companies each year has passed $50 billion, as new figures show the migration of gamblers to digital platforms during the pandemic is here to stay.

ABC News

Doctors are leaving Ireland and heading for Australia in droves – here's why

In 2022, 442 Irish doctors were issued with temporary work visas for Australia. This is a significant number of doctors compared with the total that Ireland trains each year (725 graduated in 2021).

The Conversation

Millions of US workers are still missing after the pandemic. Where did they go?

Millions of workers are still missing from the U.S. labor force three years after COVID-19 surfaced, and economists are scratching their heads as to how big the gap actually is and where all these people went.

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Reason

Having Jury Deliberate During Start of COVID Pandemic Didn't Deprive Murder Defendant of Fair Trial

The mentally ill defendant "testified and described how shooting white people was part of his divine, preordained mission to establish 'a kingdom of infinite peace and progress.'”

Chicago Sun-Times

With Illinois children in ‘crisis,’ Pritzker releases report designed to improve behavioral health care

Mental health problems for children were already on the rise when the pandemic hit. Illinois is, indeed, experiencing a youth mental health care crisis, the report says, with 40% of young people in Illinois who experienced major depressive episodes unable to receive mental health care.

The New Daily

Aviation industry takes off: Airlines report profitability as travel soars

With most of the world open for leisure travel, the aviation industry is breathing a sigh of relief as globetrotters get set to take off.

The Guardian - UK

Cineworld shares plunge after it receives no all-cash offers to save business

Any bankruptcy rescue deal for London-listed group would wipe out shareholders

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Evening Standard

UK health chiefs modelling scenarios for bird flu pandemic

It comes after the death of an 11-year-old girl from bird flu in Cambodia

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The risk of vaccine hesitancy

One of the lingering — and potentially disastrous — effects of the COVID pandemic is that more parents are reluctant to have their children vaccinated against what used to be common childhood diseases, as well as against flu and the mutating coronavirus strains.

Daily Record

Dumfries and Galloway Burns Association’s Schools Competition returns to in-person format after coronavirus pandemic

Competition convenor Fiona Evans said she was "extremely proud" of all of the pupils who took part

Reuters

Light show meets opera as new 'Turandot' seeks to lure people back to theatre

A kaleidoscopic light show has helped reinvent Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" currently playing in Tokyo - a production which aims to bring people back into theatres now that the pandemic has eased.

Reuters

Flu experts gather with H5N1 risk on the agenda

The world's leading experts on influenza met this week to discuss the threat posed to humans by a strain of H5N1 avian flu that has caused record numbers of bird deaths around the world in recent months.

360info

How to end the deadly government debt spiral

COVID-19 triggered a massive increase in government debt, mainly in low-income countries. But it would be economically wrong to put all the blame on COVID.

Bangkok Post

Listed firms refocus overseas during the pandemic

Listed Thai companies earned 4.38 trillion baht in revenue from overseas expansion in 2021, the highest level in 16 years, as they were forced to find new markets during the Covid-19 pandemic, the latest figures from the Stock Exchange of Thailand revealed.

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