The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

SHANGHAI: In the middle of the night, Shanghai resident Lucy said she and her neighbours were forced into buses and taken hundreds of kilometres away from the locked-down Chinese metropolis to a makeshift quarantine centre.

A swag of MPs are set to miss the opening of the South Australian parliament on Tuesday after contracting COVID-19.

The number of active cases rose by 408 in a 24-hour span to reach 19,500

The Microsoft billionaire said there is still a risk of a Covid variant that is ‘even more transmissive and even more fatal’

The unnamed Beijing resident took self-isolation to the extreme when he shut himself inside his car upon learning he'd been exposed to coronavirus, not even opening the door to get food

The education secretary says he will support 40% of schools yet to use maligned post-Covid education recovery scheme

India on Monday saw another dip in its daily COVID-19 cases as the country reported 3,157 new infections in the last 24 hours, 167 fewer than Sunday. Read more on Dynamite News:

China's commercial capital of Shanghai was dealt a blow on Monday as authorities reported 58 new COVID-19 cases outside areas under strict lockdown, while Beijing pressed on with testing millions of people on a May Day holiday few were celebrating.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gabe Bankman-Fried, a former Wall Street trader, has raised $12 million from a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by his brother, Sam Bankman-Fried. Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire who roomed with Mark Zuckerberg in college and helped found Facebook in 2004, funds a nonprofit with his wife that has…

Australia’s peak body for GPs says there is a lack of awareness about treatments, which if taken early can prevent severe disease

Muslims are observing the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, typically marked with communal prayers, celebratory gatherings around festive meals and new clothes