The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Odisha govt ready to tackle rise in Covid cases: Health dept

BHUBANESWAR: The state government is fully prepared for any exigency arising due to Covid cases in some parts of the country even though the state currently has zero hospitalization of coronavirus patients, the health authorities said after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to chief ministers on the issue.

The Times of India · Apr 27, 2022

Australia 5th in the world for COVID in past month but election campaign ignores the pandemic

Election campaign turns a blind eye to COVID statistics

Newcastle Herald · Apr 27, 2022

End nigh for entry hurdles

The government will consider whether to scrap antigen testing and Thailand Pass registration requirements for foreign visitors after the Test & Go entry scheme and RT-PCR tests upon arrival are cancelled next month.

Bangkok Post · Apr 27, 2022

Trump administration's $700 million loan to Kansas trucking company under fire in Congress

WASHINGTON — Federal officials Wednesday were asked to investigate whether an Overland Park, Kansas, trucking company broke federal law when securing a $700 million loan through a federal pandemic aid program — a sum that accounted for 95% of the money allocated to the program.

Tribune News Service · Apr 27, 2022

WA events and hospitality industries get set for crowds returning after COVID rules

With most of WA's COVID restrictions ending tomorrow, hospitality and events businesses gear up for what they hope will be a bumper winter of revellers returning to Perth's CBD.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2022

CRC Thai Watsadu set to resume investment plans

Boosted by the improving Covid-19 situation and state stimulus measures, CRC Thai Watsadu Co, a home improvement and material construction unit under Central Retail Corporation (CRC), looks set to resume investment in domestic and overseas markets.

Bangkok Post · Apr 27, 2022

Too soon to be endemic?

The Prayut Chan-o-cha government must pay heed to recommendations by some medical experts that it should not rush to declare Covid-19 as an endemic disease given that the situation has not significantly improved.

Bangkok Post · Apr 27, 2022

Building a health and safety culture

When it comes to workplace safety and health, "social dialogue" matters.

Bangkok Post · Apr 27, 2022

Colombo needs debt mechanism mini-miracle

When the economy is going well, the poor benefit more than others. But when things are going badly, it is the poor who are hurt the most. This is especially true in the case of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit poor countries -- and the poorest people within them…

Bangkok Post · Apr 27, 2022

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock face care homes fury - here's what they claimed in 2020

Matt Hancock said he had put a 'protective ring' around care homes and use the phrase in the Commons too. Boris Johnson said nobody was aware of asymptomatic Covid transmission

Daily Mirror · Apr 27, 2022