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

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

However, he stressed that does not mean Covid-19 is over as a global health threat

Dublin Live

The Covid 'global health emergency' is officially over, says the World Health Organisation

The statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a major step towards the ending of the pandemic

Wales Online

WHO: COVID-19 no longer global health emergency

“For more than a year the pandemic has been on a downward trend,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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Covid officially no longer a global emergency according to World Health Organisation

This seismic announcement from the UN's health body marks the symbolic end to the pandemic. Despite noting the emergency phase was over, the World Health Organisation has said the spread of Covid-19 hasn't come to an end

Daily Mirror

Covid no longer a global health emergency, WHO declares

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

The Independent UK

WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency

The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases.

Reuters

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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Measles warning as parents urged to check children are up to date with jabs amid rise in cases

The UK Health Security Agency says there have been 49 measles cases between January and April - compared to 54 cases in the whole of 2022

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Measles warning as UK cases rise - watchdog sends urgent message for parents

The UK Health Security Agency is calling on parents to check their children are up to date with their MMR vaccinations after detecting 49 measles cases between January and April

Daily Mirror

COVID still way more prominent than flu

'We now call what was formerly swine flu just seasonal influenza.'

Newcastle Herald

Flu vaccine stockpile to be boosted

The National Health Security Office is preparing to order an additional 860,000 influenza vaccine doses, bringing the stockpile to 5.26 million doses to immunise vulnerable groups.

Bangkok Post

The Guardian view on the vaccine shortfall: tackling disruption and distrust

Editorial: Millions of children have missed routine immunisations due to the pandemic. But saving lives is about more than logistics

The Guardian - UK

We can't keep up with COVID's mutations

The FDA is allowing additional bivalent shots — but a new study suggests they don't work as well as they used to

Salon

US to end Covid vaccine requirement for foreign travellers on May 11

The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal Covid-19 vaccine rules next week

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The Independent UK

US drops Covid vaccination demand for foreign visitors from 12 May

America’s insistence on Covid jabs for international travellers has been in place for 18 months – and is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world

Edinburgh Live

Arcturus Covid: People urged to wear masks and begin to test again due to new strain

Health chiefs have said that it is up to individuals to help stop the spread of the virus, as a new Coronavirus strain has appeared in Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Leeds Live

New Covid variant warning as expert urges people to wear masks again

The Arcturus strain of Covid is rapidly spreading in the UK and a University of Leeds professor has urged people to wear masks because of it

Wales Online

People urged to start wearing masks and testing thanks to new Covid strain

Experts say it is up to individuals to help stop the spread of the disease

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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.

Nottingham Post

Interactive map shows location of all Arcturus Covid cases in the UK

The strain has been reported across the country

Fortune

The next pandemic could be ‘as infectious as this one but far more lethal’—and make COVID look like a cakewalk, expert warns

“There’s nothing in the book of life that says you couldn’t have a virus that’s as infectious as this one but far more lethal,” he noted.

Evening Standard

NHS Covid contact tracing app to formally close on Thursday

The Government said vaccination uptake and high population immunity had enabled the shutdown of the service behind the ‘pingdemic’

Bristol Post

Arcturus Covid cases now in South West as five Brits die from new variant

The variant is now in every area of the UK apart from North East England

The Independent UK

‘The next pandemic is coming and we’re not ready’, top scientists warn

Sir John Bell and Sir David King among leading scientists to argue UK is no better prepared than it was in 2020, as new variant in India causes concern

Nottingham Post

Teens at risk of potentially fatal diseases tetanus, meningitis and diphtheria

New figures show vaccination rates in year 9 children have plunged, with 31 per cent not having key jab

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