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Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin says ‘we have weathered the Omicron storm’; France reports 400,851 daily cases and 233 Covid-linked hospital deaths

Face coverings are no longer compulsory on public transport and in shops in England

Despite announcing a record number of Covid-19 infections this week, the French government has timidly suggested that the country may nearly be over the worst of the fifth wave.

Omicron and Delta most pernicious but not the only coronavirus offspring under observation

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working on a strategy to coexist with the pandemic during the coming months, revealed WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al-Mandhari. Al-Mandhari told Asharq Al-Awsat that more than 15 million coronavirus infections had been reported worldwide within a week.

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib region. The United Nations has…

French PM says from February work from home guidance will be changed and nightclubs reopen; Austria will have Europe’s first universal jabs mandate

Last October—which feels like decades ago—I wrote a contrarian piece targeting those warning of a stock market crash of Depression-era proportions.  So long as earnings were good, shares in companies whose earnings were solid would remain on relatively firm footing.

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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned people against thinking that the Omicron variant is risk-free

The area's death toll - composed of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - rises to 807