The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

What to know about the surging "winter vomiting bug" and its contagious new variant

The norovirus outbreaks has been surging as COVID and the flu remain threats.

Axios · Dec 24, 2025

England now has a plan to end homelessness – here’s how to test whether it will work

The UK has proved before that it can end homelessness. The Everyone In scheme during COVID lockdowns accommodated tens of thousands of people in emergency and supported housing, who would otherwise have continued sleeping rough.

The Conversation · Dec 23, 2025

COVID 2.0 in 2026: What's Behind the Sore Throat Everyone Is Talking About

A severe sore throat outbreak in 2026 is being linked to adenovirus, a tough virus doctors say spreads easily and lingers longer than flu.

International Business Times UK · Dec 23, 2025

3 Reasons Working Remotely Could Be Lowering Your Paycheck — and What To Do About It

Nearly six years after the COVID-19 pandemic led to a sharp rise in remote workers, many companies have implemented return-to-office mandates.

GOBankingRates · Dec 21, 2025

Food is belonging, otherness and a ‘glorious addiction’ for Melissa Leong and Candice Chung

Food can bring us together. It carries memories and meaning. And it’s at the centre of new memoirs by food writers Melissa Leong and Candice Chung. They explore the ways food can inspire us to take chances and to heal, and to say the unsayable.

The Conversation · Dec 21, 2025

Long Covid stole my pro cycling dream – but what I gained in the process really surprised me

A former national junior hill-climb champion and CW staffer on his bitter-sweet struggle to shake the long tail of Covid-19

Cycling Weekly · Dec 19, 2025

Covid denier jailed for more than three years for calling for pandemic uprising

Paul Martin, 60, made 16,000 posts on a Telegram group entitled The Resistance UK, which he joined in December 2020.

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing, or so I’ve been told: don’t write about COVID. Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in. When the worst…

The Conversation · Dec 18, 2025

Lily Collins admits Emily In Paris future felt uncertain during first season

Emily In Paris star Lily Collins has opened up about the uncertainty surrounding the Netflix show after it dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020.

BANG Premier · Dec 18, 2025

China files tit-for-tat lawsuit against Missouri amid claims it hoarded PPE during Covid pandemic

Missouri filed a lawsuit against China for hoarding personal protective equipment in the early months of the pandemic and a federal judge gave a ruling in favour of the US state earlier this year

The Independent UK · Dec 18, 2025