The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

For millennia, bat viruses lurked in forests across West Africa, India, South America and other parts of the world. But, undisturbed, they posed little threat to humanity.

Australia’s Year 4 students have not lost ground on their reading skills, despite all the disruptions to schooling during the pandemic.

Children as young as 14 are increasingly being kept off school and pushed into work in the cost-of-living crisis, MPs were warned on Tuesday.

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Sollip, a Korean meets European fine dining restaurant located in the heart of Bermondsey in London, opened in mid-March 2020. This was obviously an “ill-starred moment”, given it fell right at the very start of the pandemic, said Fay Maschler in the Evening Standard, and the restaurant was forced to close…

Institutional investors, like American Homes 4 Rent and Invitation Homes, are pulling back from the U.S. housing market. At least for now.

Students from schools in low-income communities did not suffer significant “learning loss” during the pandemic years of 2020-2021, but instead improved in certain areas of study.

Schools minister Nick Gibb said the Government’s reforms and the dedication of primary school teachers were behind the country’s success.