The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Researchers found a ‘stark’ worry gap, with women more likely to be extremely worried about their parents, children, education and work-life balance.

Relative child poverty rose over the same period, the Institute for Fiscal Studies found.

Most industry chiefs believe private consumption in the second half is expected to remain flat, limited by pressure from high energy prices and the prolonged pandemic.

New omicron variants are again driving hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks, causing states and cities to rethink their responses to COVID-19 and the White House to step up efforts to alert the public

Gardaí attached to the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB), conducted the search as part of an ongoing investigation into the fraudulent claiming of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) and the laundering of the proceeds of international Business Email Compromise (BEC) frauds

Overall, Australian governments managed the first two years of the COVID pandemic well. Border closures and state actions such as lockdowns averted 18,000 deaths in 2020 and 2021.

We are in the grip of a fresh COVID wave, but governments are more reluctant to introduce measures to curb its spread. How did it come to this?

Hotel industry officials and others say the trends in Chicago are positive despite increases in crime during the pandemic.

2,620 degrees awarded at the convocation of IIT Madras

Australian Council of Social Services says end of pandemic support amid new wave of virus leaves insecure workers exposed

As Covid-19 cases and deaths rise once again, World Health Organisation director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged governing bodies to bring back restrictive measures.