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  Sky News

  COVID-19: People urged to book booster appointments before vaccine programme scaled down

  People are being urged to book one of the hundreds of thousands of COVID booster appointments still available before the NHS scales down its vaccination programme and focuses on at-risk patients. More than 400,000 appointments are on offer at 2,800 sites across England until Sunday 12 February, the last of the autumn booster campaign. The date is also the final opportunity for 16 to 49-year-olds, who are not considered at-risk and have not yet had a booster, to get the jab - in line with updat

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  Evening Standard

  ‘I was pretty much dying’: Shania Twains recalls her ‘threatening’ Covid-19 battle

  The Canadian singer was airlifted to hospital for urgent care

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  HuffPost UK

  Nick Ferrari Slaps Down Minister For Citing Covid-19 Vaccine As A Brexit 'Achievement'

  Richard Holden eventually had to agree his claim was “not true”.

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  The Independent

  Covid-19 pandemic has entered a ‘transition point,’ WHO says

  The World Health Organisation says the Covid-19 pandemic is "probably at a transition point." WHO gathered to discuss the virus and its current stage at the fourteenth meeting of the emergency committee. It was advised that the committee should "navigate this transition carefully and mitigate the potential negative consequences."

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  Evening Standard

  Wave of Covid-19 infections in China ‘coming to an end’

  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report that infections are past their peak and have begun to trend downward

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  The Independent

  Anger as Covid conspiracist Marjorie Taylor Greene appointed to House coronavirus subcommittee

  Panel expected to investigate Joe Biden’s handling of Covid pandemic

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  Yahoo News UK

  COVID-19 'may cause brain haemorrhages in unborn babies'

  Research based on tissues from aborted foetuses found evidence that coronavirus infection might be linked to brain haemorrhages in unborn children.

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  Evening Standard

  ‘Sizeable’ drop in London Covid-19 infections despite spread of Orthrus variant

  Decrease in infections fuels hopes the Christmas wave of the virus has peaked

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  Evening Standard

  OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: What is growing Covid-19 variant Orthrus?

  Plus, BTS sleep study and the boss on beating ChatGPT job roles

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  The Independent

  Joe Biden’s ‘ticking time bomb’: Can the White House win the war against Covid-19?

  The president who once warned that the nation wasn’t prepared for a pandemic is losing a battle against widespread disinformation, indifferent politicians and apathy, public health experts tell Alex Woodward

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