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

Our third COVID Christmas – here's how things might play out

The UK is now approaching its third Christmas of the COVID pandemic. And this year feels different. There’s little question we’re in a better position compared with 2020 and 2021.

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Editorial: Mask, needle, health: Masks and vaccines are still our best shot to withstand a winter surge in respiratory infections

The clunky word “tripledemic” is now on many lips. It means we now face a winter with three different respiratory viruses with similar symptoms are spreading rapidly, and stressing hospital capacity.

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We're entering a new phase of COVID, where we each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how?

The Australian government’s latest COVID management plan, released yesterday, maps how the nation will learn to live with COVID. This means transitioning from the emergency phase of the pandemic response, to responding to it in a similar way to other respiratory diseases.

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Covid-19 becoming a seasonal bug

Covid-19 is becoming a seasonal virus in Thailand, primarily active during two periods of the year, experts said.

Bangkok Post

Chinese struggle to ‘summon the courage’ to live with COVID-19

People in China have been told for years that COVID is deadly, leaving them struggling to cope with newfound openness.

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Covid-19 now becoming a seasonal bug

Covid-19 is becoming a seasonal virus in Thailand, primarily active during two periods of the year, said Yong Poovorawan, director of the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.

Bangkok Post

Mapped: Covid cases in your area two weeks before Christmas

Health authorities remind public that booster jabs available as cases tilt upwards

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Queensland reopening its borders 'seems like a lifetime ago'. How has the state fared with COVID since?

A lot has changed in 12 months. Queensland is in the middle of a fourth wave as COVID-19 becomes part of everyday life, but virologists warn against complacency.

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'Don't delay' - HSE urges those eligible to book next Covid-19 booster vaccine

The HSE is calling on everyone to check whether they are eligible for a booster vaccine, but particularly those who work in healthcare, are over 50 or are over 12 and have an underlying health condition or who are immunocompromised.

Irish Mirror

Queues form at fever clinics as China wrestles with COVID surge

People queued outside fever clinics at Chinese hospitals for COVID-19 checks on Monday, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling an apparatus they used to surveil residents and curtail movement.

Reuters

Health department clarifies that most COVID-19 PCR tests will continue without referrals

The Department of Health has been forced to clarify a plan that said COVID-19 PCR testing would require a medical referral from January next year, saying testing will remain "largely the same".

ABC News

Access tightened for free COVID PCR tests

A referral will be needed from next year if patients require a free PCR test under changes to how Australia will deal with COVID-19.

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Hospitalizations signal rising COVID-19 risk for US seniors

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China's healthcare system put to the test as COVID curbs fade

When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding in northern China, he braced for a five-day quarantine at a makeshift local hospital as part of the country's strict pandemic controls.

Wales Online

Covid treatments and prevention improving but the longer you can avoid it the better

The 'no point delaying infection' argument falls down in a number of places

Bangkok Post

Uptick sees boosters called for

The Public Health Ministry is urging people to get boosters within four months of receiving their last Covid-19 vaccination as the number of infections is back on the rise.

The Independent UK

Latest Covid-19 infection numbers likely to be affected by postal strike

There is greater uncertainty than usual in the figures.

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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.

ABC News

Queensland COVID-19 cases up 21 per cent, majority still first-time infections, CHO says

A "large number" of people over 60 who were not up to date with their COVID vaccines are among the newly infected, the state's chief health officer says.

Dublin Live

Leo Varadkar rules out 'Covid measures' to tackle Strep A outbreak

The Tanaiste said the Government is 'very concerned' about the bacterial infection

The Guardian - UK

Race to control ‘tripledemic’ as cases of RSV in children sweep US and Europe

Spike in respiratory syncytial virus as well as Covid and flu pushing many hospitals close to brink

The Conversation

There are still good reasons to avoid catching COVID again – for one, your risk of long COVID goes up each time

Like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Obrador before him, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been infected with COVID for a second time.

The Canberra Times

Five COVID-19 deaths reported in latest ACT update

COVID cases climbed once again.

ABC News

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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