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Treatment of UK prisoners during Covid meets UN definition of torture
Analysis: Report finds 85% of inmates were locked up for 23 hours a day, with sadly predictable results. It cannot be ignored News report: the ‘widespread trauma’ inflicted by extended…
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UK prisoners ‘traumatised’ by Covid solitary confinement, study says
Exclusive: Biggest survey of its kind finds mass solitary confinement inflamed UK prisons mental health crisis Analysis: Treatment of UK prisoners meets UN definition of torture A regime of mass…
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US issues health alert warning new parents about parechovirus – signs, symptoms in babies
The virus has multiple strains, but PeV-A3 is most commonly associated with severe disease in newborns, the elderly and immunocompromised people – symptoms can include fever, sepsis, seizures and meningitis.…
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Anthony Albanese cites mental health concerns as reason for not tightening Covid rules
Prime minister says people should stay home if they are sick but there is no prescriptive position on working from home AMA chief says mask mandates becoming more likely amid…
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UK inflation rise is worrying but Bank of England must not overreact
Analysis: Figure is being generated by factors outside Britain, and households and firms can do without burden of higher interest rates UK inflation hits fresh 40-year high of 9.4% as…
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Mask mandates ruled out as nation records 90 Covid deaths – as it happened
Working from home: major Australian employers respond to latest Covid health advice Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast This blog is now closed No…
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Working from home: major Australian employers respond to latest Covid health advice
Telstra and Westpac advise staff to work from home if possible while government departments are yet to shift work settings Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates…
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Woman with PhD posed as medical doctor to write fake Covid exemptions
Lawyer for Queenslander Maria Pau says ‘she believed she had the power’ to issue more than 1,200 bogus certificates Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news…
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Who’s in hospital for Covid? Data shows most Hong Kong inpatients are elderly from community instead of care homes, prompting strategy rethink; 3,805 cases logged
New trend deviates from start of fifth wave when Omicron variant swept across care homes. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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Coronavirus: Omicron wave swamps Australia’s hospitals; Micronesia no longer Covid-free
Australia has seen more than 300,000 cases over the past seven days, with the number of people admitted to hospitals near record levels. Elsewhere, the Pacific state of Micronesia reported…