Tag: pandemic

Confusion and complacency in addressing COVID-19 means the pandemic is a long way from over, but it can be brought under control in months with proven public health measures, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) does not yet see the need to activate its backup plan for the Twenty20 World Cup and is sticking to hosting the event in India later this year despite the country experiencing a record COVID-19 surge recently.

We may be headed for a post-pandemic roaring ’20s, but right now the vibe is more 1950s American suburbia.

Leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organisation on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic now ravaging the globe.

Despite the pandemic and the attendant restrictions, men, women, brides and grooms-to-be, flocked to the wedding bazaar set up by Asia Exhibition and Conventions on March 6 and 7 in Colombo

Telework and the lack of social gatherings during Japan's fight against the coronavirus have left people feeling increasingly stressed and lonely. Pandemic-linked isolation has been blamed for the first uptick in Japanese suicides in 11 years.

Two decades after the Japanese trading card game became the biggest thing in schoolyards around the world, Pokemon cards are fetching six figures at auction in a boom that appears to have been fueled by coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.

Tens of millions of workers in developed economies will have to retrain for secure careers in post-COVID labour markets reshaped by the pandemic and the remote working revolution, a report by consultancy McKinsey said on Thursday.

The inventive Chinese have devised ways to travel and shop beating pandemic restrictions. Xinhua finds out how.

Is the pandemic firmly in retreat in a country where many early modellers had predicted millions of deaths due to Covid-19?