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After reporting a whopping 78 new Covid-19 cases and one death in the state, Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant told reporters on Tuesday that Australians shouldn’t engage in conversations, even if both parties were wearing masks, and regardless of vaccination status. “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation …

The news came from the health secretary himself in a video statement which he tweeted out on Saturday. Javid, who took office three weeks ago after the ignominious resignation of Matt Hancock over a scandal involving his female aide, said he decided to take a test after feeling “groggy” on …

A “routine surveillance” across the health system has revealed an “unusual” increase in the number of “out-of-season” disease outbreaks caused by the vomiting bug over the last five weeks, Public Health England (PHE) said in a statement on Friday. A total of 154 outbreaks have been reported between late May …

In the dead of summer, just a couple of days before the July 14 Bastille Day national holiday, when many French citizens had tuned out and left the big cities for some respite from a long stretch of sanitary restrictions – including months of curfews – French President Emmanuel Macron took …

In an executive order made public on Tuesday, Cuomo declared a “disaster emergency on gun violence” that will allow his office to dedicate attention and resources to the crisis.  He also announced that he signed into law a bill, passed by the majority-Democrat state legislature, that would make it possible …

The new health secretary, whose appointment was made official on Sunday, said that his “immediate priority” is to bring the pandemic to a close so that the country can “return to normal.” He acknowledged that his new role comes with “huge responsibility” and said he’d do everything he can not …

Hancock announced his resignation on Saturday, apologizing again for breaking social distancing rules, and to his family for “putting them through this.”  “We owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down as I have done by breaching …

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Wednesday to discuss reports of heart conditions among the very young, following vaccinations with the mRNA-based jabs produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.  Citing the CDC’s vaccine adverse events (VAERS) database, the committee …

A major Public Health England (PHE) study found that the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines were more effective at preventing hospitalisation with the strain than with other Covid variants. The health secretary was aware of the promising results but chose not to tell Johnson about them during a meeting to decide …

In data published on Thursday evening, SpF stated that only 41.9% of people working in nursing homes in France had been fully vaccinated against the deadly Covid-19 virus, despite the country’s vaccination program being nearly six months old, and 55.3% had received one shot. Healthcare workers were among the first …