COVID-19

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Europe

Former UK PM Johnson denies he wanted to let Covid 'rip'

Johnson, prime minister between 2019 and 2022, faced a second day of questioning which examined the weeks before the country's second national lockdown in November 2020

35% post-Covid migrants return as they didn’t get any jobs: Study
Migration

35% post-Covid migrants return as they didn’t get any jobs: Study

Asmita Koladiya, 29, a healthcare worker, carrying her eight-month-old daughter Jiyanshi Gaurang, gives a dose of vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to a villager in Lodhida village in Rajkot district in the western state of Gujarat, India, February 2, 2022. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
South Asia

Indian researchers find no link between sudden death and Covid shots

A researcher works in an industrial development laboratory at the vaccine unit of French drugmaker Sanofi's Pasteur plant in Marcy-l'Etoile, near Lyon, France June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
World+Biz

From Covid to cancer: High hopes for Nobel mRNA vaccines

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden October 2, 2023. TT News Agency/via REUTERS
World+Biz

Hungarian and US scientists win medicine Nobel for Covid-19 vaccine work

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Economy

Govt looks to regain economy's pre-Covid momentum by the end of current fiscal

Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader Chris Hipkins speaks at the New Zealand Labour Party's election campaign launch event in Auckland, New Zealand, September 2, 2023. REUTERS/David Rowland/File Photo
World+Biz

New Zealand PM tests positive for Covid-19, to work via zoom

A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ahmedabad, India, April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave
Science

Long Covid linked to multiple organ changes, research suggests

Researchers Dr Imran Matin and Dr Sohela Nazneen presented research findings in the Covid-19 Learning, Evidence, and Research Program in Bangladesh (CLEAR) on Wednesday (13 September)
Bangladesh

Covid-19 economic impact lingers on in parts of society: Study

First lady Jill Biden walks with U.S. President Joe Biden towards Marine One after he spoke to the media before departing the White House for a weekend in Rehoboth, Delaware, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Files
USA

Jill Biden positive for Covid, President Biden tests negative: White House

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Bangladesh

China will not require Covid-19 testing for incoming travelers

Sean Bagley, 14, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier
World+Biz

Global Covid-19 incidence up by over 60% in 28 days: WHO

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Global Economy

Pandemic, inflation push 68 million more in Asia into extreme poverty: ADB