The Latest Breaking News from Covid-19

‘The experience of the public has been pretty wretched and they need to do much, much better,’ says Prime Minister

Crude extended the week's losses Thursday, while the euro struggled to recover from 20-year lows and equities were mixed as recession fears continued to cast a pall across trading floors. Expectations for a contraction in some of the world's leading economies, including China, where a new Covid-19 flare-up has generated…

The Prime Minister has quit after his MPs turned against him and Ministers resigned en masse to force him out.

‘MAG played an industry-leading role in highlighting the ineffectiveness of international travel testing’ – Charlie Cornish, chief executive

Organisers of the Avignon international festival that opens Thursday are hoping to rekindle the public's taste for theatre. With a range of live performances and events, the festival will try to reboot a sector that has suffered badly because of the Covid pandemic.

“Going to Tokyo for the biggest competition in the swimming world and trying to deliver performances in an empty stadium was a real test"

Here's your TL;DR for today's news.

He has battled a variety of conditions and come through smiling

The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they can enter some public spaces including gyms, museums and libraries

Thai consumer confidence in June picked up for the first time in six months, bolstered by improved economic activity following an easing of Covid-19 curbs, but high living costs remained a worry, a survey showed on Thursday.

Executive chairman Philip Meeson said the level of preparedness at most of the airline’s ten UK base airports was “inexcusable” and accused them of unwillingness to invest