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  Sky News

  COVID-19 infections in England at highest level since start of year, final estimates reveal

  COVID-19 infections in the UK have climbed to their highest level since the beginning of the year, final official estimates of the prevalence of the virus have revealed. While the trend is uncertain in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there are signs the virus is continuing to spread. The UK Health Security Agency said that any further monitoring of the virus will be announced after a review to ensure it is "cost-effective".

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  Evening Standard

  London Ambulance Service pays tribute to colleagues lost to Covid-19

  The London Ambulance Service (LAS) held a minute of silence at midday on Thursday to pay tribute to those who lost their lives during the pandemic. Staff and volunteers came together in the memorial garden outside its Waterloo headquarters for a short service and one minute silence, led by Chief Paramedic Dr John Martin. It came on as part of the National Day of Reflection, which is led by end-of-life charity Marie Curie.

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  Sky News

  COVID-19 vaccines do not affect a woman's menstrual cycle, study finds

  COVID-19 vaccines do not cause disruptions to women's periods, a new study suggests. Research led by the University of Edinburgh found that catching the virus can lead to some changes, such as missed or heavier periods, or bleeding between periods. Around one in five vaccinated women have reported changes to their periods after a COVID jab, according to the study.

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  Evening Standard

  Official Covid-19 advice ‘scared’ people into dishonestly jumping vaccine queue

  The research team presented participants with several hypothetical future pandemic scenarios, with varying degrees of health risk. “This suggests policy-makers need to strike a careful balance between raising public awareness enough to motivate protective behaviours, like social distancing, but not raising fear levels to heights where people may be motivated to act unethically to protect themselves.” Co-author Professor Yaniv Hanoch said the results showed no association between perception of

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  The Independent

  ‘It’s a very difficult thing to pin down’: Did Covid-19 originate from a ‘lab leak’?

  Some US government agencies think Covid may have originated from a lab leak, but there needs to be far more evidence to really know where pandemic came from, Josh Marcus

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  The Telegraph

  Inside the Covid-19 inquiry: seven years long, 150 lawyers hired and £114m spent so far

  The Government is planning for the Covid-19 inquiry to last up to seven years as more than 150 lawyers have already been hired, The Telegraph can reveal.

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  Sky News

  COVID-19 will be over as public health emergency this year, WHO says

  COVID-19 will be over as a public health emergency this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted. During a briefing on Friday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world is "certainly in a much better position now than we have been at any time during the pandemic". "I am confident that this year we will be able to say that COVID-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern," he said.

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  The Guardian

  New data links Covid-19’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market

  Analysis of gene sequences by international team finds Covid-positive samples rich in raccoon dog DNA

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  The Telegraph

  Joe Biden may be forced to declassify intelligence into Covid-19 origins

  Joe Biden is under pressure to declassify all US intelligence about the origins of Covid-19 after the House and Senate voted unanimously for the information to be released.

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  The Independent

  House unanimously tells Biden to declassify information about the origins of Covid-19

  The bill sponsored by Senator Josh Hawley heads to Joe Biden’s desk

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