The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

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.

China’s COVID-19 infections have fallen to a “relatively low” level, a top official said ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, when hundreds of millions of Chinese will be in close contact with each other on the nation’s public transport systems and at festival gatherings.

The Prince of Wales yesterday echoed the work of his late mother Princess Diana with a visit to Depaul UK where outreach staff described how the pandemic had been a “major contributing factor” for hundreds of people accessing vital services

With fewer people using public transport and more working from home due to the COVID pandemic, public transport agencies need to do everything they can to encourage more people to use their services. An essential step is to make the ticketing and payment process as easy as possible. That means…

No, said the Alabama intermediate appellate court last year (though apparently without a published majority opinion), and last Friday the Alabama Supreme Court declined to hear the case, also without a published opinion, in Ex Parte Rodriguez. But Chief Justice Parker, joined by Justices Bolin, Sellers, and Stewart, dissented—here's an…

Nearly half a million people missed out on starting medication to lower their blood pressure between March 2020 and the end of July 2021

A second-hand car is now 16.2% more expensive than it was last year and 69.7% higher than in February 2020 - a month before the pandemic began.

Border Collie Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre cared for around 20 dogs before the pandemic hit but now has at least 120 in their centre, as they continue to take in 'unwanted' pets every day

As Joe Biden enters his third year in office, The Independent digs deep into how the president did on key issues like labour, climate, legislation, inflation, Covid and civil rights. Josh Marcus introduces the series