US regulators have formally approved the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, the third jab to be authorised in the country. The vaccine is set to...
Demoling for a rise in the US minimum wage – but it will be difficult to g Congress President Joe Biden’s $1.9tn (£1.4tn) relief plan to...
Anti-vaccination protesters have gathered across Australia ahead of the launch of the country’s coronavirus inoculation programme. Protests were held in cities including Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane,...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has accepted blame – but has not apologised – for a lack of transparency about Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes. More...
Dr Fauci has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 The US top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, has...
One of the hotel rooms being used to quarantine arrivals All British and Irish citizens and UK residents who arrive in England after being in a...
Bill Gates: Achieving net zero will be ‘humanity’s greatest ever achievement’ Fifty-one billion and zero – the two numbers Bill Gates says you need to know...
Sister Andre said she wasn’t afraid of having Covid A French nun who is Europe’s oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday....
The price of oil has recovered to its pre-pandemic levels having hit an all-time low last year. While demand for oil is still lower than normal,...
Dr Li Wenliang has been hailed a hero by many in China Tributes have been paid on social media in China commemorating a doctor who raised...
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants transparency The European Commission has published its contract with drug-maker AstraZeneca to buy the company’s Covid vaccine,...
A US pharmacist has agreed to plead guilty to tampering with Covid vaccine vials because he believed the jabs could harm people, prosecutors say. Steven Brandenburg,...
Carlos Slim and his family are worth an estimated $52bn (£38bn), according to Forbes magazine Latin America’s richest man Carlos Slim has tested positive for Covid-19....
Jeff Bezos could have given every Amazon employee a $105,000 bonus with the money earned since March, the report says The combined wealth of 10 men...
The leader says he is “optimistic” and is recieving medical treatment Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19. The...
People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England’s deputy chief medical officer...
New Zealand has been praised for its handling of the pandemic New Zealand has reported its first case of Covid-19 outside of a quarantine facility in...
1,633 new cases of COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Saturday, January 23. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Lagos recorded 498....
Senior doctors are calling on England’s chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Prof Chris...
Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. However, there remains huge uncertainty...