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People look to better hygiene after feeling ‘most sick they have ever been’ with winter bug

Experts said the mass closures was largely due to rampant cost inflation, particularly through rising energy bills

In November 2019, just four months before the first Covid lockdown, Becca Thurston set up her own business from home

Commentators portray Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a more organized and calculating Donald Trump. In reality, DeSantis most resembles Richard Nixon — disciplined, stiff and intense. Both lack Trump’s charisma and ease before voters. Also unlike Trump — but very much like Nixon — DeSantis effectively deploys powers of the…

New Zealand’s PM has made history with her trailblazing leadership. Maddy Mussen looks back on her time in office — and the eight key moments that defined it

A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults represent nearly 90% of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 in recent months, the largest portion since the start of the pandemic.

Risk of death in Covid patients was up to 81-fold higher in the acute phase and five-fold higher in the post-acute phase.

Investors who bought stocks during the COVID-19 market crash in 2020 have generally experienced some big gains.

In today’s newsletter: After two terms, the Labour prime minister said she didn’t have ‘enough in the tank’ for three more years. Can the party cling to power without her?

The cost of electricity rose sixfold between January 2021 and November 2022 as the impact of the COVID pandemic combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push up wholesale energy prices.

Future COVID-19 variants and outbreaks would be best managed by ongoing vaccination and the quicker scaling up of restrictions, according to new research published in the Lancet Regional Health — Western Pacific journal.