The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

In response to our series on spillover viruses, you had many questions: from the role of climate change to possible benefits. We turn the mic to you for a special edition of 'Hidden Viruses.'

Tuberculosis surrendered the title of the world’s deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 struck, but it reclaimed that terrible distinction last year. As with COVID, a new vaccine could go a long way to sharply curtailing the disease, which killed about 1.4 million people a year before the pandemic and increased…

Catrin Rhiannon Rees's spiralled during the pandemic, her devastated family say

Chief scientist told former incumbent Sir David King the similarity would lead to mixed messaging

A new report from Women in Global Health looks at how much ground was lost — and what the impact is on health care.

Six out of Thursday’s top 10 options based on volume exhibiting unusual options activity were Tesla. That’s not surprising. What was is that TSLA had zero in the top 25 when it comes to the Vol/OI ratio. These two stocks did. They’re potential long-term buys.

It has ravaged farms, decimated wild birds and spilled onto mammals. Could avian flu spark the next human pandemic? The Down to Earth team takes a closer look.

Critics of corporate behaviour over the pandemic and Ukraine war say company profit and loss accounts tell their own story

Twelve years ago, young people took to the streets calling for constitutional reforms in Jordan. But the March 24 youth movement fizzled out. Following the return to state of emergency legislation imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the authorities issued new laws that can be used to silence journalists…

Entrepreneurship brings jobs, turns ideas into new goods and services, and hastens structural change

The National Treatment Centre in Kirkcaldy, Fife, is intended to address the backlog of planned care exacerbated by the pandemic.