The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

Airline tops revenue estimates and posts narrower-than-expected fourth-quarter loss.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that restrictions will be tightened across the country if there is a community transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus but she ruled out lockdowns.

"We need to be on guard, and ready," Jacinda Ardern says.

Consumer-facing businesses felt the brunt of the variant's impact, with the tourism, hospitality and transportation acutely affected

"We are not out of the woods, and we need people to be very careful over these next few weeks," Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said. Gov. J.B. Pritzker observed, "I am cautiously optimistic about this decline, but there are an awful lot of people still battling for…

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Matt McCracken, who is a tetraplegic, is vulnerable if he is home without a carer, but finding one is now a dire problem for many people with disabilities as the Omicron outbreak spreads.

They managed to steer their businesses through lockdowns, but these four business operators are now facing even bigger challenges getting through the Omicron wave.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid took to the podium this evening to address the nation on the lifting of current Plan B restrictions and how the fight against Omicron will continue

Surely it’s not beyond the wit of well-paid bureaucrats and politicians to come up with a way of helping those affected by Omicron, writes Alan Kohler.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said we must learn to live with Covid the same way we have with flu