Coronavirus

Congress voted Friday to extend the pandemic school meal waivers that have helped keep tens of millions of children fed and gave districts the funding and flexibilities needed to cope with supply chain and labor issues.

Sutton Foster has to pause the music! On Sunday, the actress shared that she tested positive for COVID-19. “Hi everybody I just wanted to let everyone know that today, this morning, I tested positive for Covid,” the 47-year-old actress said to the camera in a video posted on her Instagram.

An independent inquiry has been launched to look at the treatment of asylum seekers in Scotland during the pandemic.Campaigning organisation Refugees for Justice called for a review in the wake of stabbings at the Park Inn hotel in Glasgow which was being used to house asylum seekers during lockdown in 2020.On Sunday June 26, the second anniversary of the incident, Refugees for Justice announced that it has commissioned an independent inquiry, which will be led by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.An inquiry report published on Sunday focused on events in Glasgow at the start of the first major Covid-19 lockdown in...

The UK has promised £25 million to help found a new international fund to prevent or prepare for future pandemics.The money for a new World Bank fund is aimed at preventing another catastrophe with the health and economic impacts of Covid-19.The UK aid money will go to a “financial intermediary fund” to provide support for countries whose healthcare systems are dangerously unprepared for large outbreaks of infectious diseases.We must ensure we learn the lessons of Covid-19 and are better prepared next time. We owe it to the people of the world to say, ‘never again’Boris JohnsonAnnouncing the plan at the...

(Bloomberg) — Shanghai’s Communist Party chief Li Qiang declared victory in defending the city against Covid-19 at a local party congress over the weekend as authorities continued to ease measures in the hub of 25 million people. There were two local asymptomatic cases in Shanghai outside of quarantine...

Parents who have waited patiently to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19 are now able to do so after vaccines for kids under 5 were authorized over the weekend.

Dhaka, June 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh reported 1,680 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the biggest single-day increase in more than four months, bringing the total tally to 1,965,173.

The remarks are a shift from his public comments after he was infected with the coronavirus in October 2020. After Trump left Walter Reed Hospital, where he spent three days being treated for COVID-19, he told people “don’t be afraid of it.”

Berlin — Germany will start charging for rapid COVID-19 tests that were previously free, though vulnerable groups will be exempt from the fee. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said that starting July 1 the rapid tests widely available at centers across Germany will cost citizens 3 euros ($3.16) each, with the rest subsidized by the government.