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The Latest Breaking News on COVID-19

Millions to get access to COVID treatments

Potentially lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatments are to be made more widely available from Monday, says Health Minister Mark Butler.

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COVID vaccines work well for people of all body weights – but underweight and obesity remain risk factors for severe disease

Since the pandemic began, more than 6 million people have died from COVID around the world. The good news is that we now have a wide range of treatments as well as highly effective vaccines which have helped reduce the number of severe COVID cases.

The Conversation

Vaccines barely reduce long COVID risk

While existing vaccines are great for preventing serious cases, they aren't as good at preventing long Covid

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Covid vaccines are ‘safe for pregnant women and cut stillbirth risk’, study says

Unvaccinated pregnant women who catch Covid-19 are more likely to fall seriously ill

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Why India rejects the World Health Organization's COVID-19 death toll estimates

New World Health Organization data suggests almost half of the world's unrecorded COVID deaths happened in India, but the government insists its official death toll remains at about half a million. Why does the data differ so drastically?

ABC News

Coronavirus vaccines reduce risk of long Covid, study suggests

Double-jabbed people 41 per cent less likely to report symptoms 12 weeks after testing positive for Covid, according to research from Office for National Statistics

The Independent UK

How in-person schooling has impacted COVID-19 cases in four states

Preliminary COVID-19 data in South Carolina shows 31% of positive cases came from students and school staff.

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TB and the woeful state of health reporting in India

In January 2017, the Indian media reported on an exceptional legal battle playing out before the Delhi High Court regarding a young lady suffering from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, suing the Indian government for access to a new TB drug called bedaquiline that was supposed to be effective on TB patients resistant to…

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