Pandemic

The scene has changed since as lockdowns gather sepia tones and WFH largely seen as a relic of the past. SynopsisIn May 2020, at the height of Covid-19 infections, Google Trends showed that the number of people searching for new recipes was at its peak - higher than it was…

Hong Kong celebrated the 26th anniversary of the city’s return to the motherland on Saturday, as the city emerges from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and political turmoil, with local government forecasting economic growth likely to reach 3.5 to 5.5 percent in 2023. At 8 am on Saturday, the Hong Kong…

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Legendary “Coming To America,” “Animal House” and “An American Werewolf in London” filmmaker John Landis has lamented the state of modern-day Hollywood. Speaking with Deadline (via Indiewire) at the Taormina Film Festival earlier this week, he says a combination of various factors including the long-term effects of the pandemic and…

It is likely that the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a 25 percent drop in E. coli O157 cases in England in 2020 compared to 2019, according to numbers recently released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In 2020, 1,419 confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) were reported in England…

For the second time in recent months, a national poll indicates that church attendance has experienced a slight dip since the start of the pandemic. The latest survey from Gallup shows that an average of 30 percent of Americans from 2020 to the present said they had attended religious services…

“This has nothing to do with ra­cism. It was about right or wrong.” So said head prefect of Trinity College for the past two years Jovan Henry-Ali, who also graduated on Tuesday. In an interview with the Express yesterday, he said that during the Covid-19 pandemic, some pupils grew their…

The number of people sick has gone up in Denmark, but the number of outbreaks remained stable in 2022, according to recently released data. In 2022, there were 5,142 cases of Campylobacter and 899 cases of Salmonella, compared to 3,740 and 692 in 2021. Of Campylobacter and Salmonella cases in…

IRL, a social app meant to connect young people and discover events, seemed to have everything going for it. The company was able to overcome the challenges of running an event discovery app during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone was stuck inside. With a killer domain…

Photo Credit: Live Music Society Live Music Society reveals 17 small venue recipients of a $500,000 grant to fund community engagement programs in underserved and marginalized communities.Nonprofit Live Music Society, launched in 2020 to help provide financial relief to small performance venues during the pandemic, has announced its new grant initiative,…