Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Black and Latino worker deaths soar

Federal government spends just $3.99 per worker on workplace safety compliance and “underreporting is widespread"

Salon

US ends COVID vaccine requirement for international travellers from this date

The United States has announced removing the COVID vaccine requirement for international travellers. This will be brought into effect from May 11 as per the statement issued by the White House, which also added that the COVID-19 public health emergency will also end on the same day.

The Times of India

Cycling is down nearly a quarter since coronavirus peak

The decline has sparked fears the Government will fail to hit its target for increasing cycling activity.

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Flu vaccine stockpile to be boosted

The National Health Security Office is preparing to order an additional 860,000 influenza vaccine doses, bringing the stockpile to 5.26 million doses to immunise vulnerable groups.

Bangkok Post

Arcturus: What we know about the new Covid variant and its symptoms

XBB.1.16 strain detected in 34 countries so far and is driving up infection rate in India

The Independent UK

Arcturus new Covid variant symptoms amid advice to wear face masks on public transport

The XBB.1.16 variant, which has been dubbed Arcturus, can cause conjunctivitis and a general feeling of unhappiness

Nottingham Post

WHO director general warns that the world is failing to learn COVID's lessons

"Future generations will question what we did to improve from the pandemic," said. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Fortune

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

COVID-19 hits Primoz Roglic's Giro d’Italia support squad

Tobias Foss and Robert Gesink out, Rohan Dennis and Jos van Emden in

Cycling News

COVID-19 | India records 3,720 new cases

India has recorded 3,720 new COVID-19 infections and the count of active cases of the disease in the country stands at 40,177, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on May 3.

The Hindu

China’s Covid whistleblower in Wuhan reportedly freed after three years

Fang Bin was targeted by authorities for reporting on the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan

The Guardian - AU

Mental trauma of Black Summer bushfires lingers for residents in the Bega Valley and surrounds

It's been three years since the Black Summer bushfires where nearly 1,000 homes were destroyed in the Bega Valley, Eurobodalla and Snowy Monaro shires, but for some the full extent of the mental trauma has only recently hit.

ABC News

COVID RAT strategy criticised by WA auditor-general after cost soared to almost $600 million

The WA government is slammed for how it managed the purchase of rapid antigen tests during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the auditor-general describing the escalation in cost as unlike anything she had ever seen.

ABC News

US parole program to continue post-Title 42, Mexico to accept returnees

The United States will continue to accept migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela under a humanitarian program after May 11, when the COVID-19 health policy known as Title 42 is set to end, the U.S. and Mexican governments said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Tamil Nadu reports 251 COVID-19 cases, one death

Tamil Nadu reported 251 cases of COVID-19 and one death on May 2, 2023.

The Hindu

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Experts warn of worrying Covid symptom as new strain sweeps world at 'fast pace'

Experts are concerned with highly infectious XBB.1.16 variant, which could bring back mask-wearing in the UK, as it spreads across 33 countries including the United States and India

Reason

It's OK To Let People Take Risks for Medical Science

A recent study finds that human challenge trials are largely safe.

Bangkok Post

A new weapon against malaria

Over the past three years, the Covid-19 pandemic has dominated headlines and spurred scientific research, with experts around the world focusing resources and any potentially useful technology on the problem.

Reason

Lawsuit: Police Officer Broke a 61-Year-Old Woman's Leg, Then Bragged He 'Man-Dropped' Her

Before assaulting her, the cops taunted her for being homeless, she claims.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Inflammation after COVID may be caused by 'fighter-bomber' cells combatting the virus, study finds

Inflammation is what drives the fever response to the disease and is closely linked to long COVID, according to the study.

The Independent UK

Why isn’t I’m a Celebrity South Africa filmed live like regular series?

A special ‘All-Stars’ spinoff is here

ABC News

Alicia has lived with long COVID for a year and she's one of a growing number who say they are now disabled

In Australia, long COVID is not automatically classified as disability, but advocates want that to change.

The Independent UK

Wisconsin Supreme Court won't order ivermectin use for COVID

The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled a hospital cannot be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19

The Independent UK

US to lift most federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates next week

The Biden administration will end the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends

The National (Scotland)

Labour councillor condemns 'farce' as party's Rutherglen by-election row deepens

LABOUR’S selection process for a candidate to stand in a potential by-election has been branded a “complete farce” by a councillor from the…

Salon

We can't keep up with COVID's mutations

The FDA is allowing additional bivalent shots — but a new study suggests they don't work as well as they used to

1 … 393 394 395 396

People

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Union Health Ministry

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.