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The Latest Breaking News on Should We Be Masking Up? What To Know About Australia’s New Covid Wave

Sick but not Covid? Other bugs are on the rise in Hunter

Evolving Omicron sublineages are driving transmission by evading immunity.

Newcastle Herald

WHO recommends new COVID shots should target only XBB variants

A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group on Thursday recommended that this year's COVID-19 booster shots be updated to target one of the currently dominant XBB variants.

Reuters

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Some experts worry this move will hinder public health in the event of a future infectious mutation

Salon

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Vaccine misinformation, reduced confidence in doctors cause drop in childhood immunisation rates

A loss of confidence in the medical profession and misinformation about vaccines during the COVID pandemic cause childhood immunisation rates to drop, a Gold Coast physician says.

ABC News

Is it pink eye, allergies…or COVID?

Is it pink eye, allergies… or COVID?

Salon

Why the US may never recover from COVID

WHO says the pandemic is over. A disaster resilience professor says otherwise

Salon

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.

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Three years, 1.1 million deaths: COVID emergency ending in US

As US public health emergency declaration comes to an end, Al Jazeera looks at the pandemic’s heavy toll on the country.

Al Jazeera

Inside Long Covid clinic as 400,000 Brits require specialist care

One reporter joined medics on the frontline battling the condition. The average age of those being referred is just 45

Wales Online

What does ending the emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US mean in practice? 4 questions answered

The COVID-19 pandemic’s public health emergency status in the U.S. expires on May 11, 2023. And on May 5, the World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, designation that had been in place since Jan. 30, 2020.

The Conversation

RSV: we finally have a vaccine for this deadly virus

The first vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine, named Arexvy, will be given to people 60 years and older.

The Conversation

Flu threatens young children with only 6 per cent of kids vaccinated

Ash and her young daughter Clancy caught influenza after they forgot to get vaccinated last year. She never wants to experience it again. So why are so many Aussie kids not getting their flu shot?

ABC News

Of hope and vigilance: announcement that the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global health emergency

Despite WHO’s announcement, the task for WHO and nations is to ensure that it is not selectively received

The Hindu

Is Covid really over? WHO’s announcement sounds more like surrender than victory

Although the acute phase of the pandemic may be over, experts agree that the virus’s effects will remain profound

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The Hindu

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay

The Independent UK

Covid-19 no longer a global health emergency, WHO declares

It doesn’t mean Covid is over, warns Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The Canberra Times

Emergency eases but WHO warns 'virus is here to stay'

Prof Peter Collignon says care is still needed to protect the most vulnerable.

Bangkok Post

Experts downplay spike in severe Covid cases in HK

HONG KONG: The number of fatal and severe Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong last week was almost double the tally recorded in the previous seven days, health authorities have said.

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The New Daily

WHO declares end to COVID-19 global health emergency

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has made a milestone declaration on the pandemic, three years after it became a global health emergency. In a

The Independent UK

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay

Reason

WHO Declares Global COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Over

It's been over for most Americans for a long time already.

The Conversation

COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here's what that means (and what we've learned along the way)

World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID disease management.

Evening Standard

How deadly is Covid-19 now as WHO ends global health emergency?

The World Health Organisation first flagged Covid-19 as an international concern in January 2020.

Irish Mirror

Covid officially no longer global health emergency, World Health Organization declares

Friday marked an end to the coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide

Evening Standard

Covid no longer a global health emergency, World Health Organisation says

Global cases and death rates are a fraction of what they were at the height of the pandemic

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