The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Social Mobility Foundation says it expects GCSE and A-level attainment gap based on income to grow this year

Pandemic-era rules extended again after industry body ‘disappointed’ they were to expire in September

Every summer, Statistics Canada releases crime rate and crime severity data for the previous year. This year, Canada’s Crime Severity Index (CSI) increased by 4.3 per cent, the violent CSI increased by 4.6 per cent, and the non-violent CSI increased by 4.1 per cent. Moreover, aside from a drop during…

Hollywood action has broad support in UK but is hitting livelihoods decimated by pandemic and arts cuts

COVID-19 pandemic changed the way pathogen identification is done, thanks to the application of metagenome sequencing. In a recent study, scientists in Nigeria demonstrated the surveilling power of metagenomics, including its ability to help us keep track of avian influenza outbreaks.

Rush to push results back to pre-pandemic levels will hit England’s school leavers hard this year, say education experts

The infectious disease expert steered Chicago through the COVID-19 pandemic. Also a pediatrician, Arwady was appointed by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Expect peaks this fall and winter not as much as a high wall of cases, experts say.

Government funding helped keep U.S. charities afloat during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study I conducted with Stephanie Karol, a fellow economist.