The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

T'PURAM: The state has reported 1,421 cases from 29,754 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The TPR has come down to 4.77%. With 17 more deaths in the past few days being recorded as Covid deaths and 71 deaths added from the appeals received, the death toll has climbed…

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is pleading with the federal government to reconsider how GST is carved up in COVID-19 times and beyond.

The UK has seen a massive 50% rise in Covid cases in a week while hospitalisations and deaths have also risen sharply since the government announced Freedom Day last month

The 95,000 random swab test collected in England between February 8 and March 1 suggests one in every 35 people now have the virus. Covid cases started to increase from the end of February

Auditor General Kieran Donnelly has raised concerns over Covid scheme expenditure being wrongly recorded in Invest NI accounts.

All the day’s news as it unfolded

Covid travel requirement on course to be dropped before Easter after pressure from Conservative MPs

Adidas AG (OTC:ADDYY) reported a fourth-quarter FY21 sales decline of 0.1% year-on-year, to €5.1 billion. Currency-neutral revenues in Q4 declined 3%. Supply shortages due to the lockdowns in Vietnam, challenging market environment in Greater China, and COVID-19 related lockdowns in Asia-Pacific reduced revenue growth by more than €400 million in Q4. Currency-neutral revenues…

Lord Agnew described the Treasury's early anti-fraud efforts as a “Dad’s Army” operation where basic checks were overlooked

The Scottish Health Secretary told Scots not to let their 'guard down' in the face of the virus.

Wednesday’s case figures have come in at 9,070 according to officials at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre