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

California kindergarten saw big enrollment drop during pandemic. What's happening now?

LOS ANGELES — No grade level suffered a steeper enrollment drop during the COVID-19 pandemic than kindergarten, driven by what many parents saw as the futility of placing a 5-year-old in front of a computer all day.

Los Angeles Times

North Lanarkshire Council criticised over changes to Strathclyde Park road access

Eleanor Simpson says alterations made by North Lanarkshire Council to the park during the coronavirus pandemic have bisected the park.

Daily Record

COVID: how ICUs in England were stretched to cope with the pandemic

There has been much discussion recently about how governments handled the COVID pandemic during 2020 and 2021. In particular, debate has centred on the costs and benefits of the various social restrictions, including lockdowns.

The Conversation

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

Biden wants to put calorie information on the front of food packaging

The White House will be hosting a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on Wednesday, the first of its kind in 50 years

The Independent UK

Border-crossing asylum-seekers hit six-year high in Canada

The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic restrictions enable more travel and conflict and catastrophe displace people in many parts of the world.

Reuters

More than half of over-50s who left work during Covid haven’t looked for work since

More than half of people aged over 50 who have quit their job since the beginning of the Covid pandemic have not looked for a job since, new data has found.

Evening Standard

Cost-of-living crisis could reverse over-50s ‘great resignation’, survey shows

Far more over-50s who quit their jobs since the pandemic have considered returning to work in recent months because they need more money.

The Independent UK

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

California enjoying ‘good COVID weather’ now. But winter may bring unpleasant surprises

LOS ANGELES — California is entering the fall with coronavirus in retreat.

Los Angeles Times

South Lanarkshire Council highlights successful pandemic work

The council has announced its annual performance.

Daily Record

Inflation and expiring benefits have more Americans going hungry

Hunger is spreading among Americans with steady but low-paying jobs, reversing President Joe Biden's early success in cutting food scarcity by nearly a third and threatening to worsen as the country teeters on the brink of recession.

Tribune News Service

People who quit work during pandemic are now heading back due to cost of living

New figures show people are not confident about their finances

Wales Online

Extreme piercing cleanses souls at Phuket vegetarian festival

Taoist devotees had body parts pierced with objects ranging from skewers and swords to a model ship on Tuesday as Phuket's Vegetarian Festival returned from a two-year Covid-19 pandemic hiatus.

Bangkok Post

Italy gets new tranche of EU funds as dust settles from vote

The European Commission has signed off on the next 21-billion-euro ($20.2 billion) tranche of Italy’s pandemic recovery funds

The Independent UK

Power PDA and ‘fast-forwarding’: The biggest dating trends of 2022

Trends like ‘dry dating’ and ‘hesi-dating’ reveal how the pandemic has affected our love lives

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

One in five over-50s who have dropped out of UK workforce are on NHS waiting list

Office for National Statistics aims to better understand reasons why this age bracket are leaving workforce

WEKU

Unemployment data shows Kentucky has recovered jobs lost in the pandemic

Liverpool Echo

Redundancies after Liverpool all you can eat buffet restaurant collapses

The company failed to recover from a large reduction in trade due to the pandemic

Wales Online

Family restaurant fears closure after monthly bill triples to 'unbearable' £2.6k

The impact of three major factors - Brexit, the Covid pandemic and cost-of-living crisis - means there is a storm brewing that could devastate millions of small businesses across the country, the family says

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Birmingham Post

Covid created new opportunities for Welsh entrepreneurs says report

While one in ten of adult women are in the early stages of setting up their own business

Los Angeles Times

Kids are suffering from toxic stress. Here's some advice on how we can help them heal

Stress and upheaval are harmful at any time, but the pandemic has forced many families onto a roller coaster ride that seems unending. Families and caregivers are concerned about what this period of great instability means for their children, so we turned to psychologist Jennifer Vargas Pemberton, who has worked…

Birmingham Post

Card Factory returns to profit as high street footfall recovers from pandemic

The Wakefield business said sales of balloons and party supplies were up significant as consumers partied following the Covid restrictions

ABC News

COVID vaccine review lead Jane Halton 'surprised' government has not ordered vaccines for 2024

Warning "this virus isn't going away", the former health department boss who led a review of the nation's COVID-19 vaccine arrangements says she is surprised the federal government is yet to order vaccines for 2024.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago rolls out plan to revive financial district in wake of pandemic

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a plan Monday to revive the LaSalle Street corridor, a key downtown office district that suffered the double whammy of COVID-19 and the loss of several large firms to new towers rising farther west along Wacker Drive and in Fulton Market.

Insider UK

Survey reveals lack of Scottish confidence in entrepreneurship

The number of Scots starting a business is lagging behind the rest of the UK post-pandemic

Al Jazeera

Apple says it will make some of its iPhone 14 in India

Apple has asked manufacturers to shift production from China amid geopolitical tensions and pandemic restrictions.

1 … 369 370 371 372

People

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

Organisations

South Lanarkshire Council

279 stories

North Lanarkshire Council

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.