WHO says Europe should act now over Covid cases

Games of Thrones creator George RR Martin has told how he has tested positive for Covid after attending Comic-Con last weekend.

NEW DELHI: India reported 20,557 new covid infections and 44 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country’s active caseload currently stands at 1,46,323, bring the tally to more than 4.39 crore cases since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.

India's active caseload currently stands at 1,46,323. India reported 20,557 fresh Covid-19 cases and 44 fatalities in the past 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry data. With these new infections, the country's active caseload currently stands at 1,46,323, taking the total number of cases to over 4.39 crore and death toll to 5,26,211 since the beginning of coronavirus pandemic.

Indigenous leaders are reflecting on the historic visit of Pope Francis to Alberta — and its shortcomings.

Production on the third season of The Witcher has been 'paused due to COVID and we will be up and running as soon as it is safe to do so,' Netflix said Wednesday.The show paused production 'amid unconfirmed online rumors that star Henry Cavill tested positive for the virus,' according to The Hollywood Reporter.The Emmy-nominated series, which is made in the U.K., previously had to shut down production of the show's second season in 2020 due to COVID-19. The latest:Production on the third season of The Witcher, starringHenry Cavill, has been 'paused due to COVID and we will be up and running as soon as it is safe to do so,' Netflix said WednesdayNo premiere date has been announced for the third season of the show, which also features Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Mimi Ndiweni and Eamon Farren.The show has been popular for Netflix since its debut in 2019, as its spawned spin-offs including the 2021 animated movie The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, as well as a prequel series in the works titled The Witcher: Blood Origin.

Today we are reporting 7,627 community cases, and 827 current hospitalisations. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 7,776

Bloomberg, this problem persists in around 5% Covid patients that is disrupting their everyday lives and providing another set of symptoms to chalk up to long Covid-19. The scientitsts reached this conclusion after reviewing a total of 18 studies involving over 3,600 Covid-19 patients. In a paper paper published Thursday in the UK medical journal BMJ, around 15 million patients may got affected worldwide, out of which, women were less likely to recover than men.

ALSO READ: Covid is nowhere near over, warns WHO chief amid spike in cases Apart from this, Tedros also laid great emphasis over treating vaccination as an elixir to save lives. "One of the most important is that the most effective way to save lives, protect health systems and reopen societies and economies is to vaccinate the right groups first," he said. Cautioning the countries, Tedros said that if significant numbers of health workers, older people and other at-risk groups remain unvaccinated deaths will continue and health systems will remain under pressure leading to the global recovery at risk.

what people share on Instagram: that's shifting more and more to videos over time. If you look at what people like and consume and view on Instagram: that's also shifting more and more to video over time even when we stop changing anything.

CAMDEN, N.J. - The leadership in Camden, New Jersey must have wanted to pinch themselves on Wednesday to make sure what they were hearing was real.New Jersey’s two-term Governor, Phil Murphy, came to City Hall to announce that not only will Camden receive $180 million from the new state budget, but they will also receive an additional $24 million to go words capital projects."It is a real pleasure to be back in historic Camden today as we highlight the significant investments to the city in this year’s budget," said Governor Murphy. "Camden is a city on the rise, and these investments will go towards refurbishing stores and streets, making them more attractive and inviting with fresh paint and repaired brickwork, and new windows and signage, while also bringing in some much-needed upgrades for safety and security.

FILE - Actor Tony Dow attends the The Actors Fund's 2015 Looking Ahead Awards at Taglyan Cultural Complex on Dec. 3, 2015 in Hollywood, Calif.

The Department of Health has explained the rationale behind the proposed change to end Covid testing for the general population in the autumn.

COVID-19 wastewater tracker got an upgrade on Wednesday, in time for an escalating seventh pandemic wave.The university’s Centre for Health Informatics rolled out visualizations showing variants of concern (VOC) in the wastewater, as well as influenza virus RNA.Kevin Frankowski, executive director of Advancing Canadian Water Assets at the University of Calgary, said the new data is meant to complement COVID-related data from the province to enable Albertans to evaluate the risk of catching the coronavirus while out in the community. Alberta to offer 2nd COVID-19 booster to everyone 18+ “This is really about trends – this isn’t about any specific data point – and to see what direction things are going,” he said.

SEPTA announced the newest rail line named after one of the most popular convenience stores in the area.  MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, Pa. - SEPTA's newest Regional Rail station, bearing the name of a popular hometown convenience store, is set to open at the end of the summer.A naming rights agreement, which was announced on Wednesday, confirmed the renaming of the Media/Elwyn Regional Rail Line to the Media/Wawa Line.Wednesday's announcement represents a major milestone for SEPTA's multi-year project that aims to restore more than 3.5 miles of the Regional Rail service west of Elwyn, to the new Wawa Station. SEPTA trains have not served this area since 1986. This partnership with Wawa is SEPTA's fifth major naming rights agreement since 2010 and just like previous agreements, this one will generate new sources of revenue, which SEPTA says is crucial as they recover from the pandemic."With this station naming rights agreement, SEPTA continues to be an industry leader in finding innovative and cost-effective ways to deliver enhanced services for our customers," said SEPTA Board Chairman Pasquale T.

Some parts of Asia are now experiencing surges in BA.5 Omicron subvariant activity, as levels decline in earlier affected countries, keeping global cases steady at a high level, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its latest weekly update on the pandemic.

Two new studies describe long-COVID symptoms, with one finding that 53% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients still had cognitive impairment ("brain fog") 13 months after infection, and another adding conditions such as hair loss and sexual dysfunction to the list of persistent symptoms among outpatients.

Completion of a primary COVID-19 vaccination series after recovery from infection was tied to half the risk of reinfection in the pre-Omicron variant era, according to a study published today in JAMA Network Open.Brown University researchers led the retrospective study of statewide disease-surveillance data

Seth Meyers has canceled his Late Night program for the rest of the week after contracting COVID-19.The 48-year-old performer made the news known to the public with a post that was shared to his Twitter account on Wednesday, in which he apologized to those affected by the announcement.'After negative tests Monday and Tuesday I tested positive for COVID this morning,' he shared. 'Canceling shows the rest of this week.

FILE-A "for sale by owner" sign stands outside a home. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images) NEW YORK - A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire businessman Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway discriminated against potential Black and Latino homebuyers in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware, the Department of Justice said Wednesday, in what they are calling the second-largest redlining settlement in history.Trident Mortgage Co., a division of Berkshire's HomeServices of America, deliberately avoided writing mortgages in minority-majority neighborhoods in West Philadelphia like Malcolm X Park; Camden, New Jersey; and in Wilmington, Delaware; the DOJ and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in their settlement with Trident. As part of the agreement with the DOJ and the CFPB, Trident will have to set aside $20 million to make loans in underserved neighborhoods.RELATED: Milwaukee housing discrimination grants awarded, nearly $1M"Trident’s unlawful redlining activity denied communities of color equal access to residential mortgages, stripped them of the opportunity to build wealth, and devalued properties in their neighborhoods," said Kristen Clarke, an assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in a prepared statement.The DOJ alleged that between 2015 and 2019 the employees of Trident, which stopped writing mortgages in 2020, made racist comments about making loans to Black homebuyers, calling certain neighborhoods "ghettos." One manager of Trident was photographed posing in front of the Confederate Flag.

PHILADELPHIA - More than one week after Sesame Place faced public scrutiny over discrimination allegations, a law firm has announced plans to file a class action lawsuit against the theme park. Lawyers from Murphy, Falcon & Murphy are set to hold a press conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday at 4 p.m. You can watch the press conference live on FOX29.com. This comes more than a week after video showing two girls being ignored by a theme park character went viral and sparked outrage online. Sesame Place is under fire after several videos have been posted allegedly showing children being ignored by characters.After Sesame Place issued an apology, more parents came forward with similar stories about how their children were ignored by Sesame Place characters during visits. LaShonda Miles told FOX 29 her son and stepdaughter were denied a hug from a character after it hugged another child. The videos quickly sparked discrimination allegations as many of the children being ignored were Black. RELATED HEADLINESThe family from the viral video spoke publicly at a press conference last week with their attorney B'Ivory Lamarr and activist Tamika Mallory of Until Freedom. The family accusing Sesame Place of discrimination and humiliation held a press conference in New York with their attorney and community activist Tamika Mallory.Lamarr told reporters that numerous families contacted his office with videos and details of similar discriminatory experiences at Sesame Place. "We've come to learn that what took place Saturday is not an anomaly, but what we've seen is business as usual to deny and defend and delay accountability," Lamarr said.

A man receives a dose of the Monkeypox vaccine at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris on July 27, 2022. - French government announced on July 25, 2022 to mobilize "additional arms" to vaccinate against monkeypox, at a time when elected o GENEVA (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday advised men at risk of catching monkeypox to consider reducing their sexual partners "for the moment" following the U.N.

Seth Meyers has once again tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the host to once again cancel the remainder of his shows.The 48-year-old late-night TV host took to Twitter on Wednesday morning and revealed that he tested positive, this after testing negative on Monday and Tuesday. As a result, Meyers said he's «canceling shows the rest of this week.» He apologized «to our scheduled guests and loyal viewers!»Meyers was set to host star Nathan Lane and musical guest Maren Morris for Wednesday's show;  star Adam Pally on Thursday; and Issa Rae and comedian Nikki Glaser for Friday's show.After negative tests Monday and Tuesday I tested positive for COVID this morning.

Harley Wildmann MERCER COUNTY, N.J. - An arrest has been made in connection to a suspicious death investigation in Mercer County.The investigation began after a "severely burned body" was found near a cemetery on Clover Avenue Tuesday. The victim was later identified as 39-year-old Lisa Lloyd, of Ewing.Surveillance footage reportedly revealed a Chevy S10 pickup truck in the area where the body was found.

US President Joe Biden has had two negative Covid-19 tests and no longer needs to isolate after recovering from infection, his White House doctor has said.

smallpox vaccine to share them during the Monkeypox outbreaks. The aims to do so would be to offer equitable access to vaccines during another pandemic. Meanwhile, drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said US and European regulators have approved the use of Jynneos vaccine doses made at the company's plant in Denmark as global efforts to tackle the monkeypox outbreak pick up pace.

Many people feel the urge to power through after testing positive for Covid-19. President Biden recently told Americans he was “getting a lot of work done" after testing positive and tweeted a photo of himself signing a bill at his desk.

Shawn Mendes announced that he has canceled all remaining dates of his Wonder tour, to prioritize his mental health.The Senorita singer previously postponed some of his scheduled performances earlier this month, and has now confirmed that his time on the road has been cut short.The 23-year-old shared the news on social media, penning a heartfelt statement to fans.‘As you guys know, I had to postpone the past few weeks of shows since I wasn’t totally prepared for the toll of being back on the road would take on me,’ he began.‘I started this tour excited to finally get back to playing live after a long break due to the pandemic, but the reality is I was not at all ready for how difficult touring would be after this time away.‘After speaking more with my team and working with an incredible group of health professionals, it has become more clear that I need to take the time I’ve never taken personally, to ground myself and come back stronger.’pic.twitter.com/gq7DanGNYW‘I unfortunately have to cancel the rest of the tour dates in North America, and the UK/Europe,’ he continued.‘We were hopeful that I might be able to pick up with the rest of the dates after some much needed time off, but at this time I have to put my health as my first priority.’Shawn explained that it ‘breaks his heart’ to scrap the remaining dates, and reassured fans that he would be getting back into the studio to record new music when he is able to.‘This doesn’t mean I won’t be making new music, and I can’t wait to see you on tour in the future,’ he added.‘I know you all have been waiting so long to see these shows, and it breaks my heart to tell you this but I promise I will be back as soon as I’ve taken the right time to heal.‘I love you all and thank

Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger has celebrated his 79th birthday after recovering from COVID-19. The 'Gimme Shelter' singer marked the milestone on Tuesday (26,07. 22) while on tour with his band in Dusseldorf, Germany, for the band’s European 60th anniversary tour.

President Joe Biden ended his COVID-19 isolation Wednesday (July 27) after testing negative for the virus on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday morning.

Seth Meyers has tested positive for COVID-19.

The United States President, Joe Biden, on Wednesday tested negative for the Covid-19 infection, ending strict isolation.

Conservative Party and our next Prime Minister, and he’s not afraid to share them.The TV presenter, who recently revealed he’d tested positive for Covid, appeared to suggest his symptoms weren’t as painful as his experience watching one of the recent debates between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.Sharing he was ‘still a bit done in from this bloody Covid although I’m no longer contagious and haven’t been for a few days’ Paul went on to add he was tuning into the Tory leadership debate alongside millions of others around the country.Or, as he so eloquently put it, ‘two planks trying to persuade us why they’d make a wonderful Prime Minister’.He wrote on Instagram on Tuesday: ‘Truss is banging on about Turbo Charged Toffee, am I hallucinating or what? Whilst the other one is insistent that we know he once had a Saturday job in a chemist.‘To hear him you’d think he’d been forced to work down the mines since he was a child.

FILE - Houses in the Harris Ranch community of Boise, Idaho, US, on Friday, July 1, 2022. Photographer: Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg via Getty Images Sales of new U.S.

A close-up of the NASA patch on Buzz Aldrin's Inflight Coverall Jacket during the Apollo 11 mission is on display during a press preview at Sotheby's on July 21, 2022, in New York City. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) The Apollo 11 spaceflight jacket worn by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong, exceeded expectations when it sold for an astonishing $2.8 million on Tuesday.The $2,772,500 paid for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket is the most valuable American space-flown artifact and the most expensive jack ever sold at auction, according to Sotheby's, the New York auction house that handled the sale. Sotheby’s presented "Buzz Aldrin: American Icon," as the highlight of Sotheby's Geek Week on July 26.

Covid causes erectile dysfunction and hair loss, according to worrying new research. The new study published in Nature Medicine found that, although the most common symptoms of long Covid include loss of smell and shortness of breath, it can impact you in various other ways.

CHICAGO - The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.02 billion ahead of Friday night’s drawing, a prize that will be the nation’s fourth-largest lottery prize ever.Following Tuesday’s drawing, in which no one matched all six numbers to win big, the Mega Millions prize continued to climb — and now has a $602.5 million cash option, too. The jackpot has grown so large because no one has matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive drawings without a big winner.Only two billion-dollar jackpots have ever been higher: $1.537 billion won in South Carolina in October 2018, and $1.050 billion won in Michigan in January 2021, lottery officials said.The next drawing is Friday, July 29 at 11 p.m.

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, NJ, UNITED STATES - 2018/08/14: Wawa store in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Wawa, the Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain, will pay $8 million to several states over a 2019 data breach that involved some 34 million payment cards, authorities announced Tuesday.The Pennsylvania attorney general's office said Wawa Inc.

coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold, “further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab," according to AP report. The latest research, published by the journal Science, reportedly reveals that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was “likely the early epicentre of the scourge that killed nearly 6.4 million people around the world." As per the report, scientists have concluded that the virus that was responsible for causing Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, likely “spilled from animals into people two separate times." Kristian Andersen a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research and coauthor of one of the studies said, “all this evidence tells us the same thing: It points right to this particular market in the middle of Wuhan.

JCVI) has now published its final recommendations for this autumn’s programme.Under the advice, those eligible for a further dose will be:In addition, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will be widening the offer of the free flu vaccine to more eligible groups.

READ MORE: Covid symptoms: The 'top' warning sign now reported in 58% of new cases - latest dataIn the interview, the star was open about how she thought people don't pay enough attention to their own health. She quipped: "Many people, it turns out, get their boilers checked more regularly than their eyes. And yet, nothing is more important than your health.

NEW YORK - After 14 years of planning, fundraising, and delays, the brand-new Jackie Robinson Museum in Lower Manhattan is finally finished and ready to open. A ceremony featuring a ribbon cutting by Rachel Robinson, the 100-year-old widow of the pioneering ballplayer, was held on Tuesday.The Jackie Robinson Museum contains personal artifacts from the Robinson family and historic memorabilia of the man who famously broke Major League Baseball's color line in 1947, becoming an icon of Americana and a legend of the nation's favorite pastime.Rachel and Jackie Robinson's 72-year-old daughter Sharon and 70-year-old son David also attended. "The issues in baseball, the issues that Jackie Robinson challenged in 1947, they're still with us," David Robinson told the crowd of attendees.

NEW YORK - The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $1.02 Billion after no one won the jackpot with Tuesday night's drawing. The cash option for the grand prize is $602.5 million before taxes. The drawing will be held on Friday, July 29, 2022, at 11 p.m. EDT.There have only been two other jackpots higher than the current one.

Analysis: a new study has identified 62 symptoms associated with Long Covid, including some previously less well known ones

The Director of the National Immunisation Office has strongly encouraged people to receive all the Covid vaccines and boosters that they are eligible for.

Pope Francis’ apology tour in Canada on Monday.It followed the pope’s apology and was not part of the official program.A post shared by Gavin John (@gjohnjournalism)Si Pih Ko’s song is being shared and resonating with people around the world — but on Tuesday, she said it is being mistaken for the wrong tune.“It wasn’t O Canada. It’s our village in our language of the Four Winds,” Si Pih Ko said to Global News at the Lac Ste.