Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Matt Hancock: Ministers reacted to huge Covid death toll prediction with a 'shrug'

MATT Hancock has said he was warned the Covid pandemic could kill hundreds of thousands of people in the UK two months before the Government put the…

The National (Scotland)

Larne group launch free hygiene store to help community with rising costs

ReFresh Hygiene Store started at The Sparrow Centre during the pandemic and is run by volunteers

Belfast Live

More Chinese cities easing Covid curbs

The southern Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen has ended mandatory Covid testing to enter public venues, joining a growing list of local authorities easing the strict social curbs imposed across the country since the pandemic broke out three years ago.

Bangkok Post

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Best science books of 2022

Preventing future pandemics, the secrets of the Higgs boson and the surprising roots of plastic surgery

The Guardian - UK

The best comics and graphic novels of 2022

A pandemic stream-of‑consciousness, an artist in the making and a bird society on the moon are among this year’s favourites

The Guardian - UK

Matt Hancock's explosive new book: five of his claims from the Covid years

Former health secretary looks to defend his actions during the pandemic with some controversial claims as he points the finger of blame at others

Wales Online

COVID-19 'complicated' Liberals' SA election campaign but not sole factor in loss, review finds

An internal review has found the former South Australian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was not the sole factor that lost the Liberal Party the state election.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Scots nurse 'sacked' after 28 years working for NHS amid fears she will never recover from long Covid

Brenda Eadie caught Covid from work at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

Daily Record

Five shameless claims from Matt Hancock's explosive new book on the Covid years

Former health secretary Matt Hancock has released a book where he looks to defend his actions during the pandemic with some eye-catching claims as he points the finger of blame at others

Daily Mirror

Illinois COVID-19 hospitalizations near 10-month high

Hospital admissions for COVID-19 have jumped more than 26% in the last week alone, putting them on pace to hit numbers not seen since mid-February.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ministers 'shrugged off' warnings 820,000 Brits could die before first Covid lockdown

Matt Hancock claims chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty informed him in January 2020 of the "worst case scenario", and he passed it on to fellow Cabinet ministers

Daily Mirror

China's Xi told EU less lethal Omicron opens way for fewer COVID restrictions

Chinese President Xi Jinping blamed mass protests in Chinese cities on youth frustrated by years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but said the now dominant Omicron variant of the virus paved the way for fewer restrictions, European Union officials said.

Reuters

Jet fuel demand drives surge in consumption

Thai fuel consumption rose by 15.4% year-on-year during the first 10 months of 2022 as the pandemic eased, driven by an upsurge in jet fuel demand, says the Department of Energy Business.

Bangkok Post

NYC's mayor is declaring war on rats—but it's part of a bigger obsession with New York’s economic status and it could have a lot to do with remote work

Eric Adams's search for a "highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty" rat czar may also help him return more employees to offices.

Fortune

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Drop in COVID Alertness Could Create Deadly New Variant, Warns WHO

Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a deadly new variant to emerge, as parts of China witness a rise in infections, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday. The comments by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mark a…

The Independent UK

Matt Hancock blames infected staff for bringing Covid into care homes

Former health secretary claims cabinet reaction to Covid warning ‘was somewhat shrug shrug – essentially because they didn’t really believe it’

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Twilight Zone’ and the pandemic inspired artist Kaitlyn Beiriger’s South Loop mural

The artist watched reruns of the black-and-white sci-fi TV series to pass time amid COVID shutdowns. That led to her mural ‘Time Piece’ at 1014 S. Michigan Ave.

The Conversation

Emmanuel Macron's state visit with Joe Biden: key takeaways as relations warm up after a frosty few months

Emmanuel Macron has just completed the first major state visit to the US since the pandemic.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

The pandemic, Karens, crypto craziness: We're over you, 2022

The rudeness pandemic, the actual pandemic and all things gray

Los Angeles Times

The more pandemic precautions fall away, the more COVID risk is concentrated on this one group

LOS ANGELES — For Giancarlo Santos, holiday parties are typically a free-for-all of revelry, with friends and family spilling into every corner of the house, and Christmas decorations twinkling everywhere.

Foreign Affairs

The Problem With Zero

Xi’s pandemic policy has created a crisis for the regime.

Axios

How the pandemic aged teen brains

The trauma and stress of living through the pandemic structurally changed and aged the brains of adolescents by at least 3-to-4 years, found a Stanford University study on Thursday.

Fortune

Former employees may never be coming back–but their services are still for hire. Here’s how to know if you’re ready for the 1099 economy

The tech-enabled migration in the American workforce to the 1099 economy predates the pandemic. The latest wave of layoffs will push it even further.

Daily Record

Lewis Capaldi fans all saying same thing about new song Pointless

After taking a break from music and live performances during the pandemic to focus on his second album, the Someone You Loved singer is back and better than ever.

Fortune

How pumpkin spice, Paris, and Peloton are helping Hilton hotels' post-pandemic surge

The Hilton heiress can help the hotel chain win over younger customers, CEO Chris Nassetta says.

1 … 312 313 314 315

People

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

World Health Organization

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.