The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the unemployment crisis in South Africa. In the second quarter of 2021, unemployment rates were the highest ever officially recorded. Many people who lost their only source of stable income fell into poverty as a result.

Fear engulfed everyone during the pandemic. Yet when a vaccine became available, it was met with fierce resistance. Anti-vaccination crowds formed, and some of these groups argued this vaccine was against their religious beliefs.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics says up to 194,100 Australian homes experienced a break-in over the past 12 months, an increase since COVID-19 lockdowns.

Economic headwinds and pandemic disruptions similarly slowed global mergers and acquisitions, management consultant Bain reports

Qantas has reported a first-half underlying pre-tax profit of $1.43 billion - turning around last year's loss - as strong demand helped offset high fuel costs.

All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States.

City hopes to lure back bankers, lawyers and other professionals who decamped amid pandemic restrictions, though new program’s details are sparse

ONS numbers reveal rates of deaths now much lower for all ethnic groups compared with earlier in pandemic

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season