The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

US employers announced 1.17 million layoffs through November 2025, the highest since the pandemic. Glassdoor warns 'forever layoffs' are fuelling chronic workplace anxiety across industries.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With the NHS under pressures not seen since the once-in-a-century Covid pandemic, the BMA’s refusal to reconsider the timing of its industrial action is dangerous and wrong

For years, the home office loophole gave remote workers and freelancers a way to deduct expenses tied to working from home. Internet bills, utility costs, office furniture, and even a portion of rent or mortgage payments could be written off under certain conditions. This deduction helped offset the hidden costs…

Andrew Bailey told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that policymakers would have benefited from having easier sight of data, such as universal credit.

The most unstable, violent societies have one thing in common: lonely young men. We are producing millions of them, writes Scott Galloway

Ecologically important Diadema africanum almost eliminated by unknown disease in Canary Islands

A federal judge says she plans to rule quickly on a Georgia man's assertion that his execution next week should be halted

The pandemic saw a jump in the number of deaths in the UK – which in turn caused a fall in life expectancy estimates

It is too early to know whether the latest figures represent the start of a new upwards trend.

Rogue macaques have been terrorising parts of Thailand since the pandemic

Nine months after a school reopened, a child’s likelihood of being diagnosed with a mental health condition plummeted by 43%, say researchers