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                                <title><![CDATA[ What are the health risks from wildfire smoke? ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ More toxic than normal air pollution, wildfire smoke can linger in the air for weeks and travel hundreds of miles. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Britain plugs nursing gaps with international staff amid WHO concern ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 02:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ WHO 'overstretched' in response to increasing health emergencies ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 09:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The WHO and member states are trying to reform how the agency - and countries - respond to health emergencies, as well as shoring up the WHO's funding. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Don't delay reforms to prepare for next pandemic, WHO says ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 09:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Britain faces 'humanitarian crisis' as energy costs soar, says health lobby ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The NHS Confederation says it is concerned that 'fuel poverty', in the absence of further government support, would cause more deaths associated with cold homes, which are currently estimated at around 10,000 a year. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ US CDC plans to focus on public health response after pandemic failings ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ A document provided by the agency says an external report into its response found public guidance had caused confusion, while important information was sometimes released too late to inform federal decisions. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Australian states reinstate Covid-19 curbs as Omicron cases jump ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:04:48 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The changes before Christmas are a stumble in the country's plans for a permanent reopening after nearly two years of stop-start lockdowns as the new variant rages through the community. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 3 athletes positive for Covid inside Beijing Olympic bubble ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:32:38 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Beijing 2022 organisers have left nothing to chance with the games set in February, restricting entry to the capital and insisting on daily virus tests for thousands of athletes kept within a 'closed-loop' bubble. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Pollution likely to cut 9 years of life expectancy for 40% in India ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:40:48 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Last year, New Delhi's 20 million residents breathed some of the cleanest air on record in the summer because of coronavirus lockdown curbs, but battled toxic air in winter following a sharp increase in farm residue burning in nearby states. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ QR codes, health passports: China’s tech arsenal against a pandemic ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:05:01 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Concerns over privacy and data harvesting have for now been overshadowed by China's relative success in bringing the virus to heel. ]]></description>
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