The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

The Ministry of Public Health will ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation (CCSA) to drop the mask rule in public places and lower the national Covid-19 alert to Level 2 next week.

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met the Covid orphan battling loan recovery notices from LIC Housing Finance Ltd at his residence on Thursday and assured her that he will approach Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to get her father's loan waived.

The Ministry of Public Health will ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation's (CCSA) operations centre to drop the mask mandate in public places and lower the national Covid-19 alert to Level 2 next week.

Prices are following a global trend, with high oil prices driven by the war in Ukraine and China easing its COVID-19 restrictions and increasing its demand for oil.

With protections against COVID-19 transmission incomplete in early 2022, the government’s policy of keeping schools open through the Omicron outbreak has left communities exposed to widespread infection and disrupted learning.

China's commercial hub of Shanghai will lock down millions of people for mass COVID-19 testing this weekend - just 10 days after lifting its gruelling two-month lockdown - unsettling residents and raising concerns about the business impact.

Opposition parties say the findings show the Conservatives are ‘burning taxpayers money by the billion’

Loren McMath did not want to pressure her workers to get the jab, so she overhauled her whole business model over vaccine mandates, but less than six months later, they're gone.

Amid a bumper snow season, operators face rising insurance costs of up to 800 per cent as a result of the Black Summer bushfires, which burnt through around 187,000 hectares of the alpine area.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to commission an independent review of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Refreshingly, his election promise was bipartisan – both sides of politics want it.

Spain is the latest country to drop all Covid entry requirements - but only for arrivals from Europe. Travellers from the UK still need to provide the correct documentation.