The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

In February 2022, the UK government abandoned its remaining pandemic restrictions in favour of “living with COVID”. This approach relies largely on vaccines protecting people from severe disease.

Nearly three years into the pandemic, travel has returned but hotel staff have not. Unable to find workers, hotel owners and managers are having to adapt to what they believe is the new normal.

The pandemic brought many small town health clinics to the brink. But health care providers say the crisis also led to more awareness of the health disparities that have long existed in rural America.

The collapse in the personal U.S. saving rate to near a record low has fueled a narrative that consumers are clearly strapped heading into 2023. This is worrisome because consumer spending accounts for about two thirds of the economy. Heck, one widely shared analysis by Federal Reserve analysts estimated that…

The past three years the holidays have been clouded with pandemic concerns. Now, with COVID, the flu and RSV circulating — what should folks look out for at gatherings?

An anti-vaxxer has been sacked as a magistrate after after using her title to campaign against the government’s efforts to combat the pandemic.

Government figures show tourist numbers in the Northern Territory have recovered strongly, almost reaching pre-pandemic levels, but operators say more needs to be done to encourage visitors during the wet season.

A Chinese health official says the country only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a narrow definition that limits the numbers of deaths reported, as an outbreak of the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi will postpone an expected trip to China to meet with his counterpart Wang Yi to late January or later due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, TV Asahi reported on Wednesday.

Covid-19 has had profound implications for the “role of business in society”. One of them is the pandemic’s effect on companies’ sustainability strategies. These are efforts to avoid companies’ harmful impacts on the environment and communities, and to enhance the positive impacts.

The new federal money will be used to connect 87,613 households and businesses in Illinois without high-speed internet access.