The figures reflect a similar trend in infections and hospital cases.
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The first preliminary hearing of the UK Covid public inquiry will start today following a delay after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Sri Lanka is enduring its worst economic crisis in over seven decades, as August saw the country’s annual inflation rate surge to more than 70%.
US president Joe Biden has declared the pandemic is over in America, despite the number of Americans who have died from Covid continuing to rise.
The i says the end of the global Covid-19 pandemic is now “in sight”, the head of the World Health Organisation has said.
The Guardian says Chengdu, the capital of the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan, has extended the coronavirus lockdown of most of its districts indefinitely as it hopes to stem further transmissions in the city of 21.2 million.
The Guardian says Funding to promote the uptake of NHS England’s autumn Covid and flu jabs has been slashed by 63%, it can be revealed, even as the World Health Organization warned of a wave of winter deaths.
Tory leadership hopeful, Rishi Sunak has criticised the government’s response to Covid – suggesting independent scientific advisers were given too much authority.
Euronews says Thousands of people turned out in Vienna on Monday night to pay tribute to an Austrian doctor, who authorities say committed suicide after months of death threats from opponents of coronavirus restrictions and vaccines.
The average life expectancy in Germany dropped between 2019 and 2021 according to the national statistics office, a change that it attributes to the unusually high number of deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aljazeera says AUSTRALIANS have been urged to work from home and wear masks indoors as the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 nears record levels.
Aljazeera says MACAU has locked down one of the city’s most famous hotels, the Grand Lisboa, after more than a dozen COVID-19 cases were found there on Tuesday.
The Independent says COVID-19 infections in the UK have jumped by more than half a million, with the rise likely to be driven by the latest Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, figures show.
The Independent says HOSPITAL BEDS in England taken up by Covid-19 patients have surged by 37 per cent, as experts warned UK has entered its fifth wave.
The Guardian says THE PANDEMIC has had a lasting legacy on the mental health of the “Covid generation” of students, exacerbating rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm and resulting in a “significant rise” in young people struggling at university, experts have said.
The Daily Mirror says a new Covid outbreak blighting China is believed to be the dreaded Omicron variant which ruined the Christmas and New Years celebrations of millions of Brits last year.
Aljazeera says North Korea recorded 18,820 more cases of fever and no new deaths amid its first official COVID-19 outbreak, state media said on Monday, as authorities continue to insist infections in the impoverished country are being brought under control.