The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

Questions for current and ex-PM over their handling of the pandemic put off

Soaring deficits at health trusts across England cast doubt on Rishi Sunak’s waiting lists pledge

With worrying mutations, limited vaccine rollout, vastly reduced testing and a creaking health service, experts are predicting a tough few months ahead

Kozhikode district admin confirms online classes till Sept 23; schools struggle to put system in place. Financially backward families struggle to provide phones for online classes. Well-to-do families have no issue as they already had online classes during COVID.

Rapid Response Teams in Kozhikode are gathering data from 15K+ houses in containment zones. They have tracked 1K+ contacts of infected persons, isolated & medically examined those with serious symptoms. Protocols & practices from COVID-19 helped deploy field-level squads. Local admins & public support enabled quarantine of contacts. Crowd management…

US authorities have approved a vaccine that protects from one of the most widely circulating strains of coronavirus

It’s yet another sign that while the official pandemic state may be over, the days of COVID are far from it.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken cognizance of the COVID situation and has approved the use of updated COVID vaccines. The vaccines have been authorized "for emergency use updated COVID-19 vaccines formulated to more closely target currently circulating variants and to provide better protection against serious consequences…

The hospital reported COVID-19 cases are doubling for employees and patient cases are increasing across all locations.