The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Social service nonprofits had high rates of staff turnover and a hard time filling vacant positions in 2022 as the COVID-19 pandemic was ending.

Bill Gates, once the world's richest man, has fallen out of the top 10 wealthiest billionaires. Two major factors have contributed to his declining net worth.

It is easy to look back on the 2000s with magenta-tinted glasses. Certainly, there was no major land war in Europe, or a global pandemic. Meanwhile, to be a Eurosceptic basically meant tutting about ever-closer union. Few seriously suggested leaving the EU.

Port of Houston shutdown forces trucking companies to pivot, while some businesses, prepared by lessons from the pandemic, brace for long-term impact

Liberia, with a population of just over 5.6 million people, is one of the world’s ten poorest countries, with a GDP per capita of US$662.50. The lingering effects of two civil wars (1989-2003), Ebola outbreaks (2014-2015) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) have left Liberia short of achieving widespread development goals.…

Toilet paper shortages in the US are not due to a port strike but panic buying fueled by pandemic memories. Experts advise against unnecessary hoarding.

Data dashes hopes that effects of pandemic would subside and labour market would return to pre-Covid state

There’s a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have put emergency measures such as isolation and quarantine in place to stop infectious diseases spreading.

In recent months, many Canadian employers in both the public and private sectors have implemented return-to-office mandates, requiring workers that transitioned to remote or hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic to work in-person again.

The Covid-19 pandemic brought a fair deal of stress to everyone, but especially older people worldwide. Between December 2019 and March 2020, 32% of those infected were hospitalised, 2.4% developed acute illness requiring ventilation, and 1.5% – more than 50,000 people – died.

As Election Day approaches, the Republican and Democratic tickets present different ideas for childcare and family tax credits. Here's what to know.