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A new Canadian study shows visits for mental health and substance abuse problems by physicians increased 27% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is published in JAMA Network Open.The study was based on mental health and substance use outpatient

Måneskin have been forced to postpone their upcoming European tour dates due to venue capacity issues amid the ongoing COVID pandemic.The Italian rockers, who were due to kick off the tour at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on February 6, said they are “extremely sorry” to cancel the shows, promising to announce rescheduled shows by March 1.All of the band’s outdoor gigs including festival appearances and shows at the Circo Massimo, Arena di Verona and Lignano Sabbiadoro venues in Italy are still going ahead. The “ArenasTour” in Italy, however, has been postponed with the other European dates.“We are extremely sorry,” the band wrote in an Instagram post alongside a video announcing the news.

Jennifer Garner is showing her appreciation for first responders.

Steps are being taken to tackle Trafford’s huge health inequalities.

The final restrictions put in place in response to the Omicron variant sweeping across Scotland will be eased from Monday.

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Around one in seven adults now believe life will never return to normal again following the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study.

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world economy that continues to be wracked by supply chain chaos, worker absenteeism and faltering assembly lines.

Kerala in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally to 55,74,702, said the state health department on Saturday. 

Boris Johnson has announced coronavirus passports and mandatory face masks are to be scrapped in England as Plan B measures are lifted.

Tom Cruise's next two "Mission: Impossible" films have been delayed once again due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Paramount Pictures and Skydance announced Friday that the release of "Mission: Impossible 7" will be pushed from Sept. 20 to July 14, 2023.

A grandad has told of how he ‘wrestled back his life’ after the stress of the pandemic left him overweight with low self-esteem.

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Tom Cruise-led franchise saw  suffer multiple delays. It had been pushed from November 2021 to May 2022, before its last release date of Sept.

As the pandemic drags on, the coronavirus is only expected to keep mutating.

The province seems to be changing its approach when it comes to the pandemic and has provided new guidelines for how we will live with the virus moving forward. They’ve announced reduced isolation times, no contact tracing and limited COVID-19 testing.

Allison Baver #805 competes in the ladies 1,000 meter time trial during the U.S. Olympic Short Track Trials at the Utah Olympic Oval on January 2, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Calgary hotels are feeling the financial pinch due to repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic. As Adam MacVicar reports, the industry is hoping for relief from the City of Calgary.

After Alberta Health announced more pandemic response unit beds to expand capacity in Calgary and Edmonton, doctors said what they really need is for the province to be transparent about the stress on the health-care system.

LOS ANGELES - A mother who claims teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into changing her gender identity and name has filed a legal case against a tiny California school district.Spreckels Union School District was responsible for "extreme and outrageous conduct" that led the student on a path toward transitioning as a boy and drove a wedge between mother and child, according to the claim filed Wednesday by a conservative legal group.Jessica Konen said two middle school teachers who ran the school’s Equality Club — later known as UBU (You Be You) — had planted the seed in her daughter’s head in 6th grade that she was bisexual and then introduced the idea she was transgender.The legal claim that is a precursor to a lawsuit follows a flare up of tensions in the district last fall after the author of a book widely criticized as "anti-transgender" quoted the two teachers speaking at a conference about how to run an LGBTQ+ club in a conservative community.Spreckels is a speck of a town in the agricultural Salinas Valley, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. It was once home to the world’s largest sugar refinery and was the setting for some of the scenes in the 1955 film based on John Steinbeck’s "East of Eden."While Konen said her daughter had revealed she was bisexual, the mother was unaware she was identifying as a boy until she was called to a meeting at the Buena Vista Middle School principal’s office in December 2019 when her daughter was in 7th grade.She wasn’t told the purpose of the meeting until her daughter entered the room and sat across a table from her and teacher Lori Caldeira broke the news."I literally was caught off guard.

The release dates for Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been pushed back to 2023 and 2024, respectively.The news about the forthcoming entries in the Tom Cruise-starring franchise was reported by numerous sources on Friday, when it was made known that the films would be withheld from the public as a result of the ongoing state of the pandemic.The films' production companies, Paramount and Skydance, released a statement via Deadlineexplaining that the projects were being held back as a safety measure. A longer wait:The release dates for Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been pushed back to 2023 and 2024, respectively'After thoughtful consideration, Paramount Pictures and Skydance have decided to postpone the release dates for Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 in response to delays due to the ongoing pandemic,' they stated.The companies also revealed that the features would be pushed forward by a whole year and that they were still enthusiastic about their respective debuts.

N95 mask, also known as an N95 respirator, is a respiratory protective device designed to achieve a very close facial fit and very efficient filtration of airborne particles, according to the Food and Drug Administration.The edges of the respirator are designed to form a seal around the nose and mouth. N95 particulate respirators are arranged for a photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, April 6, 2020 (Credit: Justin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Images) According to the CDC, the mask is called an N95 because it is the U.S. standard that requires masks to be able to filter out at least 95% of very small particles — including droplets from the coronavirus. With such similar-sounding names, it can be confusing to understand the difference between N95 and KN95 masks. Earlier this month, the CDC updated its masking guidelines stating respirators such as N95 and KN95 "offer the highest level of protection".

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A judge has demanded an investigation after two members of an organised crime gang were able to successfully apply for £145,000 in Covid 'bounce back' loans.

PHILADELPHIA - A professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — regarded as one of the most prestigious business schools in the nation — asked her students how much they believed the average U.S. worker earned per year.Their answers were laughable to say the least. "25% of them thought it was over six figures. One of them thought it was $800k.

The three Covid symptoms first identified at the start of the pandemic are less common, according to one Covid expert.

COVID-19. Canada’s efforts to buy pandemic PPE to be assessed by auditor general Dr.

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Omicron-interrupted semester after some boards said final marks wouldn’t fall further than where they were at the end of last year.The students behind various petitions — which have together garnered more than 15,000 signatures supporting the call for a grade freeze — have formed a sort of unofficial network, sharing information about advocating for what they say would be a more equitable system that accounts for the complexities of the COVID-era classroom. Ontario to begin lifting COVID-19 restrictions on Jan.

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DANI Dyer, Jacqueline Jossa and Stacey Solomon helped fashion brand InTheStyle rake in £44million in just one year. The business's latest accounts show annual revenue more than doubled from £19m in the year ending March 31 2020 to £44m as of March 31 2021.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden has confirmed that he plans to have Vice President Kamala Harris be his running mate in 2024.Speaking at a press conference to mark the end of his first year in the White House Biden did not hesitate to express his support for Harris."She's going to be my running mate.

The number of people claiming Universal Credit has begun to fall in some Greater Manchester boroughs for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.More Americans disapprove than approve of how Biden is handling his job as president, 56% to 43%.

Bill Gates has warned of future pandemics that could be much worse than coronavirus.The Microsoft founder and business magnate spoke of his worries as the Bill & Melania Gates Foundation donated $150 million (£110m) to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI). CEPI are set to use the donations in the fight against coronavirus as well as in preparation for potential pandemics in the future, it was announced on Tuesday.Speaking about the work done by CEPI, Gates said in a statement: "As the world responds to the challenge of a rapidly evolving virus, the need to deliver new, lifesaving tools has never been more urgent."CEO of CEPI, Dr Richard Hatchet, said: "These generous pledges will dramatically advance CEPI's plan to reduce epidemic and pandemic risk in the future by developing vaccines against emerging infectious diseases while ensuring equitable access for all."CEPI are now looking into ensuring the time taken to produce vaccines is within a 100 day window.Gates added: "Our work over the past 20 years has taught us that early investment in research and development can save lives and prevent worst-case scenarios."For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The Bill & Melania Gates Foundation has pledged the $150 million to "help CEPI accelerate the development of safe and effective vaccines against emerging variants of the coronavirus and to prepare for, and possibly even prevent, the next pandemic".

Phil Keoghan can definitively say that  returning to television is one of the best things to happen to his career. And, after a pandemic-induced global shutdown that impacted production for 19 months, it's easy to see why he and the rest of the crew grew emotional after the show made its highly anticipated return.The longtime host spoke with ET's Lauren Zima and they discussed why some of the teams didn't return, what adjustments were made due to the COVID-19 pandemic and why the show is more relevant now than ever before.«It's one of the best things in my career, you know, coming back and seeing everybody smiling,» Keoghan said.But things didn't always look so bright.It was in February 2020 when Keoghan delivered the somber news that production was shutting down due to the unknown surrounding the virus.

Alberta’s top physician, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, says she doesn’t have details on the expansion of hospital capacity due to the 5th wave of COVID-19, but doctors on the frontline want the info. Breanna Karstens-Smith reports.

It’s easy to blame the pandemic for a lot of the things that have gone wrong in the last two years. To add to that list, many are experiencing new or increased physical pain – specifically from the neck up and below the knee.

The province has there are glimmers of hope ahead with recent trends amid the fifth wave of the pandemic. As Erica Vella reports, the Ford government is hinting about an announcement around restrictions that is expected this week.

COVID pandemic restrictions and supply chain issues creating the perfect storm for many just struggling to get by.Since the start of the month, Ontario has been under tightened public health measures to try and halt the spread of the Omicron variant, with retail shops restricted to 50 per cent capacity and indoor dining closed at restaurants.Arepa Ink, London’s first Venezuelan restaurant, was started up a year ago by friends Maria Avilan and Carla Calderon.The two said their hope was to bring their love for their culture’s food – namely the Arepa, made from corn-based dough – to the people of London Ont.“Our vision when we started was to make the Arepa a stable like shawarma or taco, and in Venezuela, we eat it for almost every occasion,” Avilan said.But starting a new business during the pandemic presented its own challenges: from multiple lockdowns impacting customer flow to constant increases in the price of food due to supply chain issues.“When the government started saying they were going to do something we saw ourselves affected right away, and people reacted right away. It was a rollercoaster for us because every week we had to plan what to buy,” Avilan said.Calderon noted when they started out, a box of containers for packaging their food cost $50 but in a span of months, the price had jumped to $130.

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Inspectors have praised the care being given to vulnerable children by social workers in Oldham despite disruption and pressures caused by the pandemic.

Anne Frank (L) is pictured in an archive image, alongside a detail of the diary of the wax figure of Anne Frank and their hideout reconstruction (R) at Madame Tussauds on March 9, 2012, in Berlin, Germany. (Photos by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group AMSTERDAM - A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II's enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the "most likely scenario" of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.Their answer, outlined in a new book called "The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation," by Canadian academic and author Rosemary Sullivan, is that it could have been a prominent Jewish notary called Arnold van den Bergh, who disclosed the secret annex hiding place of the Frank family to German occupiers to save his own family from deportation and murder in Nazi concentration camps."We have investigated over 30 suspects in 20 different scenarios, leaving one scenario we like to refer to as the most likely scenario," said film maker Thijs Bayens, who had the idea to put together the cold case team, that was led by retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke, to forensically examine the evidence.Bayens was quick to add that, "we don’t have 100% certainty.""There is no smoking gun because betrayal is circumstantial," Bayens told The Associated Press on Monday.The Franks and four other Jews hid in the annex, reached by a secret staircase hidden behind a bookcase, from July 1942 until they were discovered in August 1944 and deported to concentration camps.Only Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the war.

Kerala, said the state health department in a statement on Wednesday. 

With supply chain disruptions and pandemic uncertainty, food prices are expected to continue to go up in 2022 along with availability issues. Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab director Sylvain Charlesbois talks about what’s to come.