The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Saudi Arabia Lifts COVID Vaccine Requirement for Turkish Umrah Pilgrims

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday it was lifting the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for Umrah pilgrims from Türkiye as part of the Kingdom’s efforts to ease the process for would-be pilgrims. Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 11, 2022

China battles rising COVID-19 cases after easing precautions

Beijing last week also eliminated regular mandatory testing, so the official tally of cases is not clear.

Axios · Dec 11, 2022

‘This lot? No way’: what ‘red wall’ voters think now of Johnson, the Tories and Labour

We visit Blyth, Bury and Penistone to find out what has changed in the three years since they turned blue

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Rhod Gilbert ‘feeling good’ as he discloses stage four cancer diagnosis

Comedian also recalled the symptoms he had prior to being diagnosed

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2022

250,000 hospitality jobs at risk without more energy bills support, industry chief warns

Warning thousands of businesses will ‘have no option but to hand back the keys’

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2022

Paxlovid has been free so far. Next year, sticker shock awaits

Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill…

Tribune News Service · Dec 11, 2022

China's capital swings from anger over zero-Covid to coping with infections

BEIJING: Beijing's Covid-19 gloom deepened on Sunday with many shops and other businesses closed, and an expert warned of many thousands of new coronavirus cases as anger over China's previous Covid policies gave way to worry about coping with infection.

Bangkok Post · Dec 11, 2022

Queensland's 'unsophisticated' hotel quarantine system left man without proper medical care, coroner finds

Questions are being raised about the death of a man who was in hotel quarantine before he died by suicide, after a coroner found the "unsophisticated" quarantine system left him without proper medical care.

ABC News · Dec 11, 2022

Bill aims to stop care homes in UK preventing visits due to Covid

Private members bill paves way for law to end a minority of providers limiting access to relatives, two and a half years after first lockdown

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Brendan O'Carroll shares delight as 'over 35,000 requests made for tickets' ahead of Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special

The Dublin star is also happy that the hit comedy show is returning with a full studio audience for the first time since before the Covid pandemic

Dublin Live · Dec 11, 2022