Influenza and COVID-19 vaccination provide important protection this winter

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The leaders of the National Governors Association said Friday they're forming a bipartisan working group to come up with recommendations to stop mass shootings following the Texas school massacre.Reaching consensus could be a tall order given that the nation's governors have been divided along partisan lines on how to approach issues of gun control and school safety.Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, the group's chairman, and Democratic Gov.

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. - A Queen Creek teenager is alive today - thanks to the work of first responders and gamers from half a world away.The 15-year-old boy had reportedly been gaming online with some friends from Germany when he started talking about committing suicide.A friend called for help, and Queen Creek police would eventually visit the teenager's home to check on him.Body camera video showed his parents, unaware of the situation, letting the officer into the home. They found the teen lying unconscious in his room but still breathing.Police discovered that the teen had overdosed on an unknown number of pills, and Officer Sean Lopez reacted by spraying Narcan into the boy's nose.The teenager was able to slowly regain consciousness, and he was taken away by ambulance for further treatment.Queen Creek Police Chief Randy Brice applauded the Officer Lopez's quick response that saved the teen's life."The fact the officer got there that fast even though parents weren't aware and provide that intervention - even the fire department showed up very quickly - but again seconds count, and we do believe it was a great save on his part," Brice said.All Queen Creek officers, detectives and field workers carry at least two containers of Narcan for these situations.If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

AAR rules GST payable on Medical Health Insurance Premium for Employees Medical health insurance premium paid by companies, including statutory bodies for employees would be chargeable with goods and service tax (GST).  The Telangana Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that GST is payable on medical health insurance premiums for employees even by municipal and other statutory bodies that get tax exemption on various services they provide. The Telangana AAR ruling came on an application filed by M/s.

Covid curbs in Beijing since Thursday, with at least two districts closing some entertainment venues after a flare-up in a neighbourhood full of nightlife, shopping and embassies. While China's infection rate is low by global standards, it maintains a zero-Covid policy, citing the need to protect the elderly and the medical system, even as other countries try to live with the virus. So far, the country of 1.4 billion has seen just 5,226 deaths from Covid-19.

A summer wave of Covid-19 is likely to be on the way, according to some of the country's leading medical professionals.

BBC One's Saturday Kitchen on Saturday, Knowles said he intended to lose three stone by giving up beer and wine. This is not the first time he has been on a health kick. In 2014, the TV star had a health scare that prompted him to drastically rethink how he was living his life.

COVID-19, according to data released by the provincial government.There are also 110 people in an Ontario ICU.The figures show a continuing downward trend in Ontario’s hospital occupancy rates. Friday saw 536 people hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 and 110 in an Ontario ICU with or due to the virus.

Mumbai on Saturday reported as many as 1,745 new Covid cases and with that the active tally in the city breached the10,000 mark. 

As many as 795 more people tested positive for Covid-19 across Delhi in the last 24 hours, said the state health department on Saturday. With this, the positivity rate in the city has reached 4.11%.

A previous Popeyes storefront is pictured in a provided image. (Credit: Popeyes) MIAMI - Popeyes is throwing it back to 1972, the year of an infamous break-in now known as the Watergate scandal, Elton John released his hit song "Rocket Man," and when the famous fried chicken chain first opened its doors.Popeyes was founded on June 12, 1972, in New Orleans, Louisiana, by Al Copeland.

India's economy recovered strongly despite 3 COVID waves, says US Treasury report The Indian economy has rebounded strongly despite three significant COVID-19 waves, the US Treasury has said in a report to Congress. India's acute second wave weighed heavily on growth through the middle of 2021, delaying its economic recovery, the Treasury said in a semi-annual report.

Covid positivity rate of more than 10%, while in 24 districts, including seven in Kerala and four each in Maharashtra and Mizoram, the weekly positivity rate is between five and 10%. Speaking on this topic, Guleria said, as quoted by news agency PTI, complacency has set in among people towards following Covid-appropriate behaviour.

Manic Street Preachers have postponed tomorrow’s (June 12) show at the Peterborough Embankment, after frontman James Dean Bradfield tested positive for COVID-19.Sharing the news on social media yesterday evening (June 10), the band confirmed that ticketholders would be contacted “by their point of sale” over the weekend. The Manics are yet to announce a new date for their Peterborough show, which is their only headliner scheduled for the immediate future. They noted, however, that they “hope to reschedule for as soon as possible”.A post shared by Manic Street Preachers (@manics)Next month will see the Manics perform at two UK festivals, hitting the stage at Suffolk’s Latitude on Sunday July 24, and at Y Not in Derbyshire on Friday July 29.

Canadians who are at high risk of contracting monkeypox — not just those who have been infected — should get a vaccine, according to new guidance from the national body that provides advice to government on vaccines.

The single-day rise in new coronavirus infections in the country was recorded over 8,000 after 99 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. A total of 8,329 infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours taking India's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 43,213,435 while the death toll has climbed to 5,24,757 with ten fresh fatalities, data updated at 8 am by the ministry stated.

Today we are reporting 5,130 community cases, 332 current hospitalisations, and 8 deaths.

Today we are reporting 5,202 community cases, 361 current hospitalisations, and 8 deaths.

PHILADELPHIA - When someone retires from their longtime job, it's customary for others to put together a retirement party to commemorate a job well done. But a retiring Philadelphia crossing guard wanted to do things a little differently. For the past 20 years Marie Garrison has provided a safe passage for kids and adults at an intersection in Port Richmond.

LOS ANGELES - The world may be facing shortages of most products due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a war in Europe, but there’s one commodity that is overflowing: Maple syrup. The world’s largest supplier of maple syrup recorded a record harvest of the sweet gooey goodness thanks to promising weather conditions, Quebec syrup producers reported. 211.3 million pounds of syrup was harvested this spring in the French-speaking Canadian province, according to the region’s agri-food consultant Groupe Ageco.This years harvest tops a previous record set in 2020 of 175 million pounds. "We benefited from excellent weather conditions this spring," Luc Goulet, president of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, said Friday in the statement.FILE - Woman puts maple syrup on her pancakes.

COVID-19 testing of incoming international passengers at Canadian airports.Random testing at airports will be temporarily suspended at all airports starting on Saturday, June 11 until June 30, according to a joint statement from Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault.Unvaccinated travellers will still be required to be tested on-site.The government is also announcing that, as of July 1, all testing, including for unvaccinated travellers, will be performed off-site.The news comes after federal public health officials said Friday they were looking at updating their advice to government on the random testing reuquirement.Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the testing is not done to monitor travelers for infection, but rather as a way to measure emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 that may be making their way into Canada from other countries.“The random testing is not to detect every case.

Infants born to mothers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 1 year of age, regardless of whether they were born pre-term, according to preliminary findings of a Massachusetts General Hospital study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.

Unvaccinated heart-failure patients who contract COVID-19 are three times more likely to die of their infections than their vaccinated and boosted counterparts, concludes a study published yesterday in the Journal of Cardiac Failure.Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York

SARS-CoV-2 RNA in air samples collected at a nurses station at a Boston hospital were identified in all particle sizes and were genetically identical to human samples from a healthcare-associated outbreak, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open.

Time running out for unclaimed lottery tickets worth millions in Quebec Lussier told reporters Friday he wasn’t able to check his ticket because the website booted him off, but he quickly learned he won a cool $70 million.He was on hand to meet with Loto-Québec in downtown Montreal, just a few days after learning he had won the Lotto Max jackpot. He was the only winner of the grand prize.Lussier, who used to work for Hydro-Québec, said he used to work in the same building where the announcement was being made.

The Biden administration will drop pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements for air travellers effective Sunday at 12:01 a.m. ET after heavy lobbying from airlines and the travel industry, the White House has confirmed to Global News.

Coronavirus infections in the UK are estimated to have risen for the first time since March at the height of the Omicron wave. A total of 989,800 people in private households in the UK are estimated to have had the virus in the week ending June 2, up from 953,900 the previous week, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

COVID-19 booster doses to be rolled out this fall.Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore says preparations for a fall COVID-19 strategy are well underway, including vaccinations, and officials are going through various scenarios such as an aggressive flu season and new COVID variants.In an interview, Moore says there will be another booster dose available for the people most at-risk, with the potential to then open it up to the general public.He says he anticipates that in the fall a new generation of vaccine will be available that targets both the original COVID strain plus a more up-to-date one that is circulating, such as for Omicron.

COVID on Friday, with 110 in intensive care.This is down by 13 for hospitalizations and a decrease of eight for ICUs since the previous day as hospitals report a week-over-week decline.Last Friday, there were 669 hospitalizations with 117 in ICU.According to latest data for hospitalizations, 58 per cent were admitted for other reasons but tested positive for COVID-19. For those in ICUs, 35 per cent were admitted for other reasons.

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Travelers at Berlin's airport. (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S.

Maharashtra now stands at 13,329. In Mahrashtra, 1323 patients were discharged and zero deaths were reported throughout the state. Maharashtra | 3081 new COVID cases were reported today in the state while 1323 patients were discharged. With zero deaths today, active cases stood at 13,329 pic.twitter.com/d4oUxFF3ee Maharashtra on Thursday had reported 2,813 new cases.  Capital city Mumbai reported 1,956 new Covid cases today.

Shaquille LashPhoto: CDCR SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man who was serving a life sentence for carjacking and armed robbery was mistakenly freed from a Northern California jail for more than 13 hours before was rearrested Thuresday afternoon, authorities said.Shaquile Lash, 28, was released from the Sacramento County Main Jail at about 10:30 p.m., authorities said."This is a very unsettling sort of incident," although it appeared Lash didn’t commit any more crimes before he was rearrested in Stockton, Sacramento County sheriff’s Sgt. Rod Grassmann told KCRA-TV.Lash went to state prison in 2013 from San Joaquin County.

The crashed helicopter is pictured in a provided image on June 8, 2022. (Credit: Hawaiʻi Fire Department) A tourist helicopter crashed on Wednesday in a lava field in Hawaii, injuring all six people on board who were evacuated safely from the site, officials said.The initial report came in about 5 p.m.

Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, adding that high-level testing must be conducted in areas that are reporting new or clusters of cases, according to people familiar with the matter.   Samiran Panda, the Additional Director general of the ICMR on Friday told news agency ANI, the situation coulkd still not e called a fourth wave of coronavirus in the country.  “It's wrong to say 4th wave is coming, we need to examine district-level data.

An immunologist has said Covid-19 infections are on the rise and that it is "astonishing" how infectious the Omicron variant is.

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₹96.72 per litre while the price of diesel is at ₹89.62. The prices of the auto fuels were last revised on 22 May when petrol was cut by ₹8.69 per litre and diesel was reduced by ₹7.05 in the national capital. -

SARS-CoV-2 in canines. What is Anocovax? Anocovax is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Delta Covid-19 vaccine for animals.

President Xi Jinping said China must stick "unswervingly" to its zero-Covid strategy, as more than half of Shanghai's 25 million lockdown-weary residents got ready for a weekend virus testing drive.

India and Bangladesh's cross-border bus service resumed on Friday, two years after its suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to High Commission in Bangladesh, “Resumption of India-Bangladesh Cross-Border Bus Services! Bus services b/w India-Bangladesh via ICP Agartala-Akhaura & ICP Haridaspur-Benapole resumed with the Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka bus being flagged off from Dhaka early morning today-a major step forward in enhancing affordable, people-centric connectivity".

Diabetes and long Covid: Interestingly, according to three studies, diabetes patients were up to four times more likely to develop long Covid compared to people without diabetes, as per a presentation conducted on Sunday at the annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association.  Additionally, the researchers noted that diabetes appears to be "a potent risk factor" for long Covid but their findings are preliminary because the studies used different methods, definitions of long Covid, and follow-up times, and some looked at hospitalized patients while others focused on people with milder cases of Covid-19. However, it is worth noting that the researchers have said that more high-quality studies across multiple populations and settings are needed to determine if diabetes is indeed a risk factor" for long Covid.

Today we are reporting 6,297 community cases, 361 current hospitalisations, and 10 deaths.

WHO expert panel released a report suggesting that it is impossible to determine the cause of COVID-19 because of lack of data. Experts agree, some scientists might be allergic to the idea of investigating the lab leak theory Another blow to two-year-long efforts to understand how Covid-19 began. Latest investigation into its origins by the World Health Organization have been inconclusive, largely because data from China is missing.

Covid-19 cases. The Centre on Thursday wrote to all states and union territories regarding the ‘upsurge’ in new Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, adding that high-level testing must be conducted in areas that are reporting new or clusters of cases, according to people familiar with the matter. Meanwhile, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage has crossed the 194.74 crore (1,94,74,38,014) mark on Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.

UPPER - Viewers gathered Thursday to watch a prime time congressional hearing that detailed some of the finding of an investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S.

Jeff Brides has been through a lot health-wise over the last couple years, but he's doing much better now.The 72-year-old actor opened up about his health struggles in an interview with Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of his series The Old Man.When asked how he's doing after his diagnosis with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2020, The Big Lebowski star said he's 'feeling good.' Feeling better:Jeff Brides has been through a lot health-wise over the last couple years, but he's doing much better now 'Cancer-wise, yeah remission, and COVID, you know, that made my cancer look like nothing, that COVID,' he revealed. 'I did my chemo for the cancer and that stripped me of all my immune system, so then I got COVID on top of that, and it wiped me out.'Bridges discussed his struggles in more detail during an interview with People at the end of May.