Puzzling PCR and Lateral Flow Test results have sparked fears of a new Covid variant in the UK. Last week, dozens of people reported contradictory results as theories started swirling over a new virus strain.

After receiving positive results for lateral flow tests (LFT), also known as rapid tests, testers then reported negative PCR tests.

The strange discrepancies, reported in the South West of England, prompted public health officials to launch a nationwide inquiry, as reported by the i.

Meanwhile, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which oversees public health, has declined to theorise whether these results could be an indication of a new Covid variant.One theory hypothesises that a positive LFT followed by a negative PCR test means

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Police: Confessed child killer beaten to death by mob after escaping Kenyan jail

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Police in Kenya say a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed by a mob.Area Assistant County Commissioner Cornelius Nyaribai confirmed the killing of Masten Wanjala on Thursday. The killing near his home in Bungoma county came a day after he escaped from police cells in Nairobi.Police authorities said Wanjala was identified after he joined a football match and played with locals.

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Covid-19 vaccination: Centre launches anthem by Kailash Kher as country nears 100 crore jabs

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Delhi reports no new death, 21 more Covid cases in 24 hrs; positivity rate 0.04%

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India to reach 100-cr Covid vaccination mark next week: Health Minister

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World Bank chief David Malpass lauds India's successful Covid vaccination drive

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Scottish Government announces 21 deaths and 2,581 covid cases in last 24 hours

The Scottish Government has confirmed that 21 people have died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

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New Brunswick pastor expected in court over alleged COVID-19 public health breaches

A New Brunswick pastor is in court Friday after public health officials accused his congregation of breaking masking rules and other COVID-19 health orders. Tim Roszell has more.

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Religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandate: Here’s what we know, what we don’t

COVID-19 vaccine mandates looming, many who haven’t yet received the jab are scrambling to take their shot, preparing to face consequences, or seeking an exemption for medical or religious reasons.The new policies, set to be implemented at the end of October, come months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to impose new proof of vaccination requirements across all federally regulated industries – including a mandate for domestic travellers not specific to federal employees.

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Russia's daily COVID-19 death toll hovers near all-time high

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Unvaccinated Ayrshire residents urged to get Covid-19 jab ahead of winter

Health chiefs say it is not too late to get the Covid-19 vaccine ahead of winter.

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Blair ‘very confident’ federal vaccine passport coming by U.S. border reopening on Nov. 8

Bill Blair says he’s ‘very confident’ that Canadians will have a national vaccine passport in place by the time the U.S. border reopens for non-essential travel on Nov.

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Covid: Steady vaccination pace among reasons behind low daily cases in Delhi, say experts

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Super Saturday smashes vaccination records

Super Saturday has smashed vaccination records with people rolling up their sleeves for their COVID-19 vaccinations today, with 129,995 doses administered - 39,024 first doses and 90,971 second doses as at 10pm tonight.

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India to procure over 30 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses per month by January: Report

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FDA panel endorses booster shot for J&J COVID-19 vaccine

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'Swift and substantial': IMF hails India's response in tackling Covid-19 crisis

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Karnataka Covid restrictions: Govt to decide on easing more curbs. Details here

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India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 97.23 crores

COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 97.23Cr (97,23,77,045) as per provisional reports till 7 am today. This has been achieved through 96,05,482sessions.

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National day of action in NZ to boost vaccination rates

New Zealand vaccinated at least 2.5% of its people today as the government tries to accelerate inoculations and live with Covid-19, preliminary health ministry data showed.

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‘Frustrating and disappointing,’ says passenger after 47-hr travel experience from U.S. to Canada

international trip that was meant to last eight hours from the airport to the traveller’s destination ended up totalling 47 hours after several “frustrating” flight changes and delays, a Canadian who was flying into Sudbury, Ont., from the U.S. via Toronto told Global News.In addition, the passenger alleged the airline failed to notify him of one of the flight changes and that he wasn’t given a hotel voucher for one night as a result of the change.

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Covid-19 case surge: Pause for thought, but not panic

It is said that a week is a long time in politics. Well, the same can be said about coronavirus too.

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India Covid-19 updates: 15,981 new cases, 166 deaths in 24 hrs

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Jill Biden stumps for Murphy in New Jersey re-election bid

US First Lady Jill Biden delivers remarks at Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny Campus, in Ankeny, Iowa, on September 15, 2021. (Photo by EVELYN HOCKSTEIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) MIDDLESEX, N.J. - First lady Jill Biden campaigned Friday for Democrats in governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey, saying "this election will set a course for a year from now" during her first political trip of her husband's presidency.Biden spoke at an early voting rally at Middlesex College in Edison, New Jersey, where Democratic Gov.

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Too early to conclude on lessons learnt from Covid crisis: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

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US will accept mixed doses of Covid-19 vaccines from international travellers

CDC if it would accept the mixed vaccine doses noting "nearly four million Canadians, equivalent to 10% of their fully vaccinated population, have received mixed doses of the available mRNA COVID-19 vaccines – this includes the AstraZeneca vaccine."

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Manitoba’s COVID-19/vaccine numbers – October 15

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Delta variant infecting unvaccinated younger people

Global’s Keith Baldrey has more on how infectious the Delta variant is and new data showing younger people are getting hit hard, especially if they’re unvaccinated.

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41 community cases of COVID-19; two new cases in managed isolation; 69,582 doses of vaccine delivered so far during Super Saturday

There are 41 new community cases today. As at 10am, 20 of these cases are linked, 13 of which are household contacts and 21 remain unlinked with investigations continuing to help determine their connection to the current outbreak. 

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Nursing school applications rise amid COVID-19 burnout among staff

according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.Figures for the current 2021-22 school year won't be available until January, but administrators say they have continued to see a spike in interest.RELATED: ICU nurse helps young COVID-19 widowed dad fill newborn’s nursery with donationsThe University of Michigan nursing school reported getting about 1,800 applications for 150 freshman slots this fall, compared with about 1,200 in 2019.Marie Nolan, executive vice dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, said it has seen its biggest number of applicants ever, many of them applying even before a vaccine was available, despite her worries that COVID-19 would scare off students.Students at those and other

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Puducherry Covid restrictions including night curfew extended till 31 Oct

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New Jersey military base is temporary home for Afghan refugees

BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J. - Airman First Class Waverly Strong of the U.S. Air Force teaches English to Afghan refugees at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County, New Jersey.Liberty Village, as it is called on the military base, is now a temporary home for thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan."There are days when I teach more of how to get by when they leave here because I realize now they are not going back to their country, they're going to be going to different states in the U.S.," Strong said.

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Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine booster wins backing of US FDA

FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted to back Moderna Inc.’s booster Thursday, and additional shots from the partnership of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE were authorized in September with the panel’s support. While President Joe Biden had foreseen offering boosters to all vaccinated Americans eight months after their first dose, the panel had until now recommended them for people at least 65 years old and younger adults who risk severe illness or viral exposure at work.

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Businesses react to QR code COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination system

Ontario businesses will have to use the new QR code system to verify the vaccination status of customers. As Sean O’Shea reports, owners and operators generally support the plan but say many sectors are still unfairly disadvantaged.

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Mobile testing to roll into Hamilton neighbourhood with high COVID-19 incidence rates

COVID-19 testing clinics to an east end sector of the city that’s been struggling with a high number of positive cases in recent months.The site will hit the L8E Forward Sorting Area (FSA) next week and test individuals that reside in an area generally enclosed by Nash Road, Fifty Road, Highway 8 and the Lakeshore – an area with recent low test rates and high incidence rates.There will be four consecutive Monday clinics over the next four weeks in the parking lot of the Dominic Agostino Riverdale Community Centre on Violet Drive, starting on Oct. 18 and ending on Nov.

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Ford announces new QR codes for Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine passport

Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that Ontarians can now begin downloading their new QR codes to be used as proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

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Step-by-step breakdown of how to get the new Ontario COVID-19 QR code proof-of-vaccination

Global News breaks down exactly how you can download the new COVID-19 verification certification with a scannable QR code

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Ontario’s QR code-based COVID-19 vaccine passport unveiled

A week ahead of its implementation, Ontario has begun the roll-out of its new digital vaccination passport system. The provincial government is already taking criticism for the system’s shortcomings. Matthew Bingley reports.

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COVID-19: B.C. reports 667 new cases, 12 related deaths

B.C. health officials reported 667 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 related deaths on Friday, Oct.

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School bus crash in Salem County leaves children with minor injuries, officials say

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90,000 US COVID-19 deaths since June were preventable, Kaiser Family Foundation says

SAN FRANCISCO - As the nation braces for yet another potential surge in COVID-19 infections and cold weather approaches, new data suggests an estimated 90,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States could have been prevented since June 2021. The analysis, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, estimated how many COVID-19 deaths were among unvaccinated adults and could have been prevented since June 2021 "when safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines became widely available to all adults in the U.S." Medical personnel move a deceased patient in New York City.

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Alberta’s ICU numbers climb slightly over Thursday, down over 7 days

COVID-19.According to AHS, the number of patients in the ICU in the province has dropped by 1.3 per cent over the past week. ‘Happy to be here’ — N.L.

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COVID-19: 31 more cases confirmed in Simcoe Muskoka

COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the local total number of cases up to 13,759, including 262 deaths.Local public health also reported 21 new COVID-19 variant cases on Friday, bringing that total to 6,245, including 122 cases that are active.

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CDC issues 2021 holiday COVID-19 guidance urging vaccination ahead of gatherings

WASHINGTON - The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released official public health guidance for its 2021 holiday season urging people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus while continuing to wear masks indoors and in public spaces. The guidance stresses that people should get vaccinated ahead of the holidays if they haven't done so already. For young children who aren't yet eligible for the vaccine, the CDC suggests reducing risk of exposure by making sure the people around them are vaccinated.Dr.

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78 Saskatchewan patients in ICUs as COVID-19 death toll rises by 4

COVID-19 death toll has risen for 41 consecutive days.The four recently deceased who tested positive for the virus include two people in the 80-plus age group, and two in the 60-to-79 grouping. There have now been 773 COVID-19-related deaths in the province.

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Tottenham suffer double Covid-19 blow with duo set to miss next three matches

Tottenham Hotspur have been hit with a significant blow ahead of the Premier League returning this weekend.The Lilywhites will be without two of their players for their clash away at Newcastle United on Sunday afternoon - due to positive Covid-19 cases.Nuno Espirito Santos' side have only won one of their four clashes in the Premier League, and they face an uphill task to combat that stat.According to football.london, two of Spurs' first-team players have tested positive for Covid-19.However, the report continues that the players who tested positive, who remain unnamed, were not in close contact with the rest of the squad.When quizzed about his injury updates in his pre-match press conference, Nuno said: "After the international break there

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