The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Australia v South Africa: third Test, day one – as it happened

Australia reached 147-2 at the end of a day interrupted repeatedly by bad light and rain

The Guardian - AU · Jan 4, 2023

Greyhound bought in memory of Nottingham friend goes on to be national success

The dog who was purchased by a syndicate to commemorate a friend has gone on to win major races

Nottingham Post · Jan 4, 2023

New Zealand won’t require visitors from China to show COVID test

‘There is minimal public health risk to New Zealand,’ COVID-19 minister Ayesha Verrall said of visitors from China.

Al Jazeera · Jan 4, 2023

Tories' 'breathtakingly complacency' after trying to blame Covid and flu for NHS meltdown

Tories have been accused of repeatedly ignoring the problems that have left the NHS at breaking point after 13 years of shameful underfunding as they blamed Covid, Strep A and flu instead

Daily Mirror · Jan 3, 2023

Covid, flu and strep: How bad it got and how health experts expect them to hit us in winter months

Two years of lockdown measures have disrupted the usual patterns of seasonal viruses

Wales Online · Jan 3, 2023

Adaptability is key to national survival

Covid-19. Technological disruption. Climate crisis. These have happened at a rapid pace that challenges the adaptability of people around the world. Is Thailand prepared to withstand these challenges? Ask the children -- the future of the country -- and their answers, according to the 2018 PISA Survey of 15-year-old children…

Bangkok Post · Jan 3, 2023

People urged to wear masks and stay at home - we ask how they feel about doing it all again

The NHS is under mounting pressure this winter amid a wave of illnesses

Manchester Evening News · Jan 3, 2023

Blaming Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest on the COVID vaccine is "wildly and irresponsibly speculative," says expert

Substantial testing is needed to reach a true and complete diagnosis.

Fortune · Jan 3, 2023

Debunking claims that Western media is 'exaggerating' Covid-19 in Shanghai

As China eases its zero-Covid policy amidst international fears of a new wave, a report by an anglophone journalist in China from late December is being used online as "proof" that the coronavirus figures in Shanghai are hardly cause for concern. But is all as it seems? We take a…

France 24 · Jan 3, 2023

Can China cope? From zero to no Covid restrictions

Why did China suddenly go from draconian Covid restrictions to an "anything goes" approach? The nation where the coronavirus originated kept a lid on it for three years and an easing was expected after the October Communist Party congress. But to go from Covid protests in November to suddenly opening…

France 24 · Jan 3, 2023