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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 wave strains Melbourne hospitals

The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The Alfred have deferred some elective surgeries due to staffing shortages and rising demand.

AAP

China Approves Second Non-injectable Covid-19 Vaccine

Beijing Wantai Biological gets green light to join CanSino Biologics in offering non-injectable version of coronavirus inoculation

Caixin Global

LA County facing full-blown coronavirus surge as cases spike 75%, deaths rise

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County appears in the midst of another full-blown coronavirus surge, with cases rising by 75% over the last week.

Los Angeles Times

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More respiratory-related illnesses are requiring hospitalization in Lexington

Healthcare providers in central Kentucky are continuing to see an increase in patients with respiratory-related illnesses.

WEKU

Chinese rush to stock up antigen kits, medicines as COVID prevention curbs ease

Chinese residents have rushed to snap up COVID-19 antigen kits and medicines for fevers and colds, as the country's recent easing of prevention measures triggered widespread concern among the public that they could now catch the virus.

Reuters

More vaccinated people who catch Covid are reporting same four symptoms

A study has found that each new variant causes more people to suffer symptoms which disrupt their daily lives

Wales Online

‘Tripledemic’ of flu, COVID and RSV jams Ga. ICUs with sick kids, adults

As flu and other seasonal viruses continue spreading rapidly across the state, COVID-19 cases are climbing again, possibly putting Georgia on the verge of yet another winter surge of the deadly pandemic virus. The collision of RSV, flu and COVID viruses — dubbed a “tripledemic” — could overwhelm hospitals already…

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Thanksgiving kicked off a COVID surge, and it's slamming U.S. hospitals already battling the tripledemic: ‘It’s the perfect storm for a terrible holiday season’

Residents of nearly 6% of U.S. counties should mask up due to high levels of COVID hospital admissions, CDC head Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, in addition to those who travel by plane, train, or bus.

Fortune

New NT COVID-19 infections double in a week, health workers say case numbers likely higher than official figures

Low numbers of daily COVID-19 cases are beginning to climb rapidly again in the NT, where health workers say the official daily average is likely a significant under-count.

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Latest Covid variant BQ1 resisting treatment for existing strains as expert 'concerned'

Virologist Connor Bamford said we "need to be a little bit concerned" about the new omicron variant known as BQ1, which seems to be immune to current Covid treatment

Daily Mirror

Pfizer asks FDA to clear updated COVID shot for kids under 5

Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5

The Independent UK

Can you go to work with Covid?

Or, more importantly, should you? Here’s everything you need to know

The Independent UK

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

A surge in cases is indicating a new wave has started in the UK

The Independent UK

Covid vaccine: When can I get my booster jab?

UK entering a new wave of the virus, experts warn

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Flu warning for under 5's, pregnant women and elderly people

Medical experts have warned those who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill

Axios

Worst flu outbreak in more than a decade spikes hospitalizations

Worst flu outbreak in a decade spikes hospitalizations

The Guardian - AU

Covid is weakening, China state media claims, as major cities lift lockdowns

Unnamed expert tells state media outlet Yicai that Covid could be downgraded from a category A disease to category C

Reuters

Conditions for China to downgrade its management of COVID-19 maturing - state media

Conditions for China to downgrade its management of COVID-19 as a serious contagious disease improving as the coronavirus weakens, state media outlet Yicai reported, among the first to float the idea.

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The Independent UK

Covid boosters urged as hundreds of thousands at risk yet to get jab

Health boss urges people to check whether they are eligible for jab in time for Christmas

The Independent UK

NHS England urges most vulnerable to get winter Covid-19 booster

More than 16 million people have had a coronavirus booster while 18 million have had a flu jab, NHS England said.

Bangkok Post

Let's make a New Year Covid-19 resolution

Thailand embraces the last month of 2022 not with a winter breeze but with a surge in Covid-19 cases -- a result of a dip in temperatures and increased crowd gatherings, not to mention loosened preventive measures against the infectious disease.

Irish Mirror

Latest Covid variant BQ1 evades treatment for existing strains as virologist raises concern

"I think we do need to be a little bit concerned about this"

The Independent UK

Top five Covid symptoms after vaccination and the signs you might have it

Covid booster jabs still strongly advised for those eligible, say experts, as flu season arrives

Salon

The bad science behind "immunity debt"

Immunity debt — the idea that our immune systems become weak if we're not exposed to pathogens — isn't a real thing

Fortune

China dumping its draconian ‘zero COVID’ policy could come at the huge cost of rampant infections: 'This will spread like wildfire'

The end result could be “hundreds of millions” of infected Chinese, Dr. Ali Mokdad, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said.

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