Scottish Government confirms ONE death and 740 new Covid cases in Tayside

Alberta records 22 more COVID-19 deaths The pandemic response unit in the Kaye Edmonton Clinic was targeting Thursday to begin admitting patients, AHS said Tuesday.“The opening of the PRU is a temporary measure and is one of several initiatives that will ensure our healthcare system can meet the increased demand caused by COVID-19,” a statement from AHS said.“Patients moved to the PRU could be patients recovering from COVID-19 who are no longer infectious or patients with less complex healthcare needs than those being cared for in traditional inpatient spaces.”Thursday’s briefing also comes days after Health Minister Jason Copping announced Pfizer’s antiviral pill Paxlovid would be arriving in Alberta on Monday, but only 3200 courses of the treatment. Canada has detected BA.2 cases.

CALABASAS, Calif. - A statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant appeared at the site of the helicopter crash that killed the NBA legend, his daughter, and seven others in 2020 on the two-year anniversary of their untimely deaths.The statue was created by artist Dan Medina and depicts Kobe and his daughter "Gigi" smiling at one another, and includes a plaque with the names of the seven other victims.RELATED: "It’s been two years," Medina wrote on Instagram, adding: "Rest in peace."On Wednesday, fans visited the statue to pay their respects to the late Lakers legend and the other crash victims.Kobe, 41, and Gianna, 13, were killed the morning of Jan. 26, when the helicopter carrying them and seven others crashed into a mountainside in Calabasas, California, while flying to a girls basketball tournament at his Mamba Sports Academy.

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Authorities in Burlington County, New Jersey are investigating a homicide after they say a woman was found bludgeoned to death inside of her home Wednesday afternoon.Officers responded to the home of Melissa Malcolm, 38, shortly after noon for a wellness check after she did not show up for work.Malcolm was found dead in her bed and had suffered blunt force trauma to the head, authorities say. The Burlington County Prosecutor's Office says a person of interest was taken into custody on charges related to the investigation into Malcolm's death, but added that he has not been charged with homicide. MORE HEADLINES: Authorities say they are preparing to charge Andrew Kramer, 31 for credit card and motor vehicle theft after he allegedly used Malcolm's debit card to withdraw money and make purchases in Marlton and Brooklawn early Wednesday morning. Kramer, described by authorities as an acquaintance of Malcolm's, was allegedly driving her 2016 Grand Cherokee while using the card.Kramer is also facing charges in Philadelphia, where authorities say he approached a man at gunpoint, telling him he needed a ride.

Among 457 adult participants in an ongoing phase 1/2 clinical trial who completed primary COVID-19 vaccination with the Moderna, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, a booster dose with either the same (homologous) or a different brand (heterologous) induced an immune response and was safe.Baylor College of Medicine researchers led the open-label trial, pu

COVID-19 vaccination clinics will open at schools in London over the next month as health officials work to get more doses of the vaccine into the arms of the region’s youth amid the Omicron wave and a return to in-person learning, the Middlesex-London Health Unit said Thursday.The first pop-up clinic to open as part of the effort, which the health unit describes as “Community HUB COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics in Schools,” will run on Monday at Wilfrid Jury Public School from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., offering first and second doses to those over the age of five.The second will run at Bonaventure Meadows Public School on Feb.

Participants and supporters of the so-called “freedom convoy” gathered in parts of the GTA Thursday. Demonstrators are continuing to make their way towards Ottawa this week for a protest against COVID-related mandates.

Guelph General Hospital is reporting Thursday that it is treating 31 patients who have tested positive for COVID-19, while 39 staff members are off work due to the virus.The number of patients remains the same as the previous day, while the number of staff unable to work has fallen by three.Across Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, 36 people are in the hospital with COVID-19, including 12 in an intensive care unit. Guidelines released for who can receive Paxlovid treatment for COVID-19 in Ontario Testing has captured 36 new cases in Guelph, raising its total case count to 8,765.

Evangeline Lilly is making her views on the COVID-19 vaccine quite clear.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia man who served 37 years in prison in a case tainted by perjured testimony was cleared of the murder on Thursday and then sued the city over his 1984 conviction.Willie Stokes left prison earlier this month, after a federal judge found prosecutors never disclosed that they had charged his chief accuser with perjury after the trial. The witness has said he was offered sex and drugs at police headquarters to frame Stokes in an unsolved 1980 dice-game slaying."I’m not bitter.

Both Sinn Féin and the Labour Party have said that a solution to assessment for this year's Leaving Certificate cannot include school profiling.

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A Scots mum saved her seriously ill son's life by donating one of her kidneys after a positive coronavirus test ruined all chances of him receiving a transplant from another donor.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remarked on the convoy of trucks heading to Ottawa this week, saying that the “fringe minority” in the truck convoy with “unacceptable views” do not represent the way most Canadians feel. The comments came on the heels of reporting by Global News that far-right and white nationalist groups saw the convoy as an opportunity.

Irving Mayren Guzman (Pleasantville Police Department) PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. - Authorities in Pleasantville, New Jersey have arrested and charged three men in connection with the alleged assault of a 19-year-old man outside of a nightclub days before he was found dead nearby. Jamaul Timberlake, 30, Garnell Hands, 29, and John Hands, 24, have all been arrested and charged with second-degree aggravated assault and conspiracy after allegedly assaulting 19-year-old Irving Mayren-Guzman. Police say the assault occurred in the parking lot of Centerfolds, a nightclub, during the early morning hours of Jan. 23, just before Mayren-Guzman was reported missing. On Jan.

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The Irish Government has agreed a supply deal with pharmaceutical company GSK, which will result in patients here being able to access the drugmaker's new Covid-19 treatment.

Offering a fourth Covid vaccine dose to all over 18s could help prevent further infection and severe illness, according to experts.

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COVID-related mandates.Truckers and supportive protesters are heading to Ottawa from east and west parts of the country, as well as from southern Ontario where routes were scheduled to depart from several locations including Windsor, Sarnia, Niagara and Toronto on Thursday, according to the organizers’ website.The website indicates that the convoys would be passing through the Toronto area in the late morning hours, into the afternoon. ‘Freedom convoy’ expected to move through Greater Toronto Area Thursday Demonstrators gathered throughout parts of the GTA Thursday, with some groups on top of overpasses in anticipation of convoys moving through.Protesters also gathered at Vaughan Mills, where a convoy was set to depart around the noon hour.The groups are scheduled to arrive in Kingston Thursday evening and begin heading to Ottawa on Friday, the website says.

A total of 38 health and safety accidents happened across Trafford ’s schools in 2021, including someone being hit by a moving vehicle.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s brother-in-law has asked for his $13,000 GoFundMe donation to the trucker convoy to be returned, according to an NDP source.

Irving Mayren Guzman (Pleasantville Police Department) PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. - Authorities in Pleasantville, New Jersey have arrested and charged three men in connection with the alleged assault of a 19-year-old man outside of a nightclub days before he was found dead nearby. Jamaul Timberlake, 30, Garnell Hands, 29, and John Hands, 24, have all been arrested and charged with second-degree aggravated assault and conspiracy after allegedly assaulting 19-year-old Irving Mayren-Guzman. Police say the assault occurred in the parking lot of Centerfolds, a nightclub, during the early morning hours of Jan. 23, just before Mayren-Guzman was reported missing. On Jan.

Courtesy: North Port Police Department NORTH PORT, Fla. - North Port police arrested a man who they say pretended to be a teenage girl online and enticed his victim to take a nude photo – then blackmailed the child into performing disturbing sex acts by threatening to post his photo online.According to the North Port Police Department, 45-year-old Patrick Shane Penczak is facing seven felony charges involving crimes against children including lewd and lascivious battery on a child, allowing a child to engage in sexual activity, directly promoting a child to engage in sexual performance, viewing a child in the performance of sexual performance, using a computer to lure and seduce a child, and others.Investigators said Penczak pretended to be a teenage girl from California on the online chat system Discord, and convinced a young boy to send a nude photo of himself in exchange for gift cards. The victim redeemed the gift cards on Roblox, an online gaming platform, and sent a nude photo to Penczak, believing the user to be a female around his age.RELATED: Sexually-explicit deep fakes, revenge porn could become felonies in FloridaBut once he sent the photo, the victim said the suspect threatened to post his photo online if he didn't do what "she" wanted.Over the course of a year, the victim said he felt forced to log onto the online chat system and live stream disturbing sex acts, fearing that the suspect would expose his photo online if he refused to comply.

PHILADELPHIA - Forecasters are still trying to get a hold on a coastal storm that's expected to bring heavy snow and whipping winds to parts of the region Friday into Saturday. Temperatures dropped below freezing on Wednesday as a cold front spiked conditions in most places. That trend will worsen overnight as temperatures drop into the teens in most places, while parts north and west of Philadelphia could fall into the single digits. A similar weather day will follow on Thursday with below-average temperature hovering near the freezing point to set the stage for Friday night's coastal storm. Forecasters are still unsure which path the storm will take, but there is growing confidence that areas primarily in New Jersey and Delaware will see several inches of snow. FOX 29's Kathy Orr explained that current models predict light accumulations in southeast Philadelphia and a sliver of neighboring parts of New Jersey.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is expected to officially announce the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer today, one day after news leaked that the 83-year-old would be stepping down from the nation's highest court this summer.Wednesday, as the news rippled throughout the political world, Press Secretary Jen Psaki initially declined to comment, instead deferring to Breyer himself and the president. The White House has now announced a 12:30 p.m.

Here's his tweetI remember when HIV was killing millions. And now HIV+ patients live a normal life with one pill a daySARS-CoV2 is no match for HIV. We have 9 COVID vaccines and 19 more in the pipelineOur tools will outsmart this virus and it’s variants. Hang in there. This will end

Two changes will be made to Scotland’s Covid restrictions tomorrow as the country continues to battle its way through the Omicron wave of the virus.

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Neil Young performs in concert during Farm Aid 34 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on September 21, 2019 in East Troy, Wisconsin. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)Spotify is currently in the process of removing all of Neil Young’s music from its platform after the rock singer gave the company an ultimatum to "deal with the vaccine misinformation coming from Joe Rogan’s podcast," or lose his music. Rolling Stone Magazine and The Hollywood Reporter reported on Wednesday that Spotify was working to remove Young’s entire catalog of music from its platform following a letter published and then taken down by the Canadian folk and rock legend.Rolling Stone, which first reported on Young’s letter Monday, reported that the post has since been deleted.

PHILADELPHIA - A father and son are in the hospital after police say they were involved in a struggle and both shot one another inside of a North Philadelphia home.  The incident occurred on the 200 block Oxford Street shortly after 10 a.m.

PANDEMIC anxiety is seriously impacting younger learner drivers as they take to the road for the first time, according to a study.

Organizers describe the vaccine mandate as an example of political overreach resulting in economic harm, arguing the policy hurts small businesses and denies some workers the means to survive.The Canadian Trucking Alliance has spoken out against the protests, stating that it does not support “and strongly disapproves of any protests on public roadways, highways and bridges.” Expect traffic delays as convoy protest reaches London on Thursday, OPP say In London, convoys travelling from Sarnia and Windsor are set to meet at the Flying J Travel Center on Highbury Avenue South at around 11 a.m. Thursday.Participants are expected to stick around for at least an hour before heading eastbound on Highway 401 toward Drumbo and eventually stopping in Kingston for the day.Ultimately, the convoys will join others from across Canada in Ottawa this weekend.Well before the convoys arrived in London, a crowd began gathering at the Flying J Travel Center, with more than 100 supporters on hand by 10 a.m.

COVID-19 hospitalizations.From Thursday, face coverings are no longer required by law anywhere in England, and a legal requirement for COVID passes for entry into nightclubs and other large venues has been scrapped. COVID self-isolation period cut to five days in England The government last week dropped its advice for people to work from home as well as guidance for face coverings in classrooms.The so-called “Plan B” measures were introduced in early December to stop the rapid spread of the omicron variant from overwhelming health services and to buy time for the population to get its booster vaccine shot.Health Secretary Sajid Javid said the government’s vaccine rollout, testing and development of antiviral treatments combine to make “some of the strongest defenses in Europe,” allowing a “cautious return” to normality.But he added that “as we learn to live with COVID, we need to be clear eyed that this virus is not going away.” While infections continue to fall, health officials said that omicron remained prevalent across the country, especially among children and the elderly.Officials said that almost 84 per cent of people over 12 years old in the U.K.

COVID-19 treatment.The province received its first shipment of Paxlovid last week, and Health Minister Christine Elliott had said the drug would be directed toward adults at the highest risk.Ontario has now released its guidelines for who is eligible for the treatment, including immunocompromised adults, unvaccinated people aged 60 and over, and unvaccinated people aged 50 and over if they have one or more risk factors, or are First Nation, Inuit or Metis individuals.

COVID-19 pandemic as hospitalizations fell Thursday.The number of pandemic-related hospitalizations dropped by 117 to 3,153. This includes 235 people in intensive care units, a decrease of 17 compared with the previous day.This comes after 231 patients were admitted while 348 left hospitals across the province in a 24-hour period.

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WASHINGTON - Authorities say one victim has died after five were shot early Thursday morning at a Days Inn in Northwest D.C.The shootings were reported around 3:30 a.m. at the Days Inn Wyndham hotel in the 4400 block of Connecticut Avenue.

Ben Roethlisberger, No. 7 of the Pittsburgh Steelers, waves to the crowd after his final game at Heinz Field where he defeated the Cleveland Browns 26-14 on January 03, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images) PITTSBURGH, Penn. - Ben Roethlisberger announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday with a video posted to his Twitter page.Roethlisberger played quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers for 18 seasons.

Food can be sold at Ontario movie theatres once restrictions loosen Jan.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Denmark’s government said Wednesday it will scrap most pandemic restrictions next week, even as neighboring Sweden extended its own measures for another fortnight.Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that as of Feb. 1 Danes will enjoy free access to restaurants, cafés, museums and nightclubs, while mask use will cease to be mandatory."We say goodbye to the restrictions and welcome the life we knew before" the pandemic, Frederiksen said. "As of Feb.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan's presidency, bouncing back with resilience from 2020's brief but devastating coronavirus recession.The nation’s gross domestic product — its total output of goods and services — expanded 5.7% in 2021.

Emergency crews worked to free the driver from the bus following the crash.  WINSLOW TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Two women suffered serious injuries after authorities say a school bus crashed into a utility pole and a tree Thursday morning in Winslow Township. The crash occurred on Cedarbrook Road between Grove Street and Central Avenue.Authorities say bus left the roadway, striking a utility pole and eventually coming to rest after striking a large tree. Two women in their 70s, the bus driver and aide, had to be freed from the wreckage by Winslow Township firefighters. The aide was airlifted to Cooper Hospital and the driver was taken to Cooper in an ambulance.