The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

WHO calls on China to end secrecy about COVID’s origins

World Health Organisation advisers have urged China to release all information in its possession about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

The New Daily · Mar 18, 2023

Big card shop to shut another store with more branches to close for good in days

Clintons is among many high street retailers facing mounting cash flow pressures amid challenging trading conditions following the pandemic and amid rising living costs

Daily Mirror · Mar 18, 2023

Raccoon dogs may have been linked to the pandemic. What are they?

The wild animals are more similar to foxes than to domesticated dogs. Data that suggested a link between raccoon dogs and the origins of the COVID pandemic was removed from an international database.

WEKU · Mar 18, 2023

Why I think the Canon EOS R50 is the most significant new camera for ages

The first major mid-priced camera of the post-Pandemic era

Digital Camera World · Mar 18, 2023

Holidaymakers face big rise in car hire costs abroad this summer

Prices for popular destinations could be up almost 60% on 2022, analysis carried out for the Guardian shows

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2023

Why car prices are still so high — and why they are unlikely to fall anytime soon

The average new vehicle costs nearly $49,000, an almost $10,000 increase from before the pandemic. This is a look at today's deeply weird auto market.

WEKU · Mar 18, 2023

I’m grateful I could return to India before more changes take hold

The devastation of the pandemic and lockdown only heightened the feeling that we don’t get to see our loved ones overseas enough, and left us wondering if flying to India would ever be possible again.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 18, 2023

Raccoon dogs emerge as possible COVID-19 source in new analysis

MELBOURNE, Australia — New data linking COVID-19 to raccoon dogs in a Wuhan wet market provides “important incremental evidence” supporting the hypothesis that the virus originated in wildlife, according to a scientist who has studied the genesis of the pandemic in China.

Tribune News Service · Mar 17, 2023

Michael Jordan is reportedly close to selling his NBA franchise to the hedge fund billionaire at the center of the WallStreetBets/GameStop saga

Jordan might sell the Charlotte Hornets to a consortium co-led by Gabe Plotkin, whose Melvin Capital lost big in the pandemic's meme-stock frenzy.

Fortune · Mar 17, 2023

Why does Texas labor market just keeps surging in 2023?

The hiring spree just keeps on going.

Tribune News Service · Mar 17, 2023