Pandemic

This week marks the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the United States to quickly expel migrants at the southern border for the last three years. The restrictions are often referred to as Title 42, because the authority comes from Title 42 of a 1944 public health…

Alamy Stock Photo File photo # rival airlines EU court annuls approval of Germany's €6 billion bailout of Lufthansa after Ryanair complaint Lufthansa received the cash injection in 2020 when the pandemic brought global air travel to a halt. A EUROPEAN COURT has annulled the decision by the European Commission…

The Hospital Authority (HA) has said it will continue to expand its remote consultation services this year after public acceptance of telehealth grew during the pandemic. The HA said it had given more than 200,000 remote consultations over the past year, and that it plans to expand its services to…

For a new study, a team of physicists recruited roughly 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder to help answer one of the most enduring questions about the sun: How does the star's outermost atmosphere, or "corona," get so hot? The research represents a nearly-unprecedented feat of data…

U.S. officials are expecting a surge in migrants seeking asylum as the pandemic-era health policy Title 42 is set to end this week. Some 10-13,000 migrants are expected to arrive along the southern border per day. Manuel Bojorquez takes a look at how the influx might strain border towns' resources.…

OTTAWA - Canada will expand a pilot project to attract more temporary foreign workers to jobs in Canada's agricultural industry for another two years after the pandemic meant it got off to a slow start, the immigration minister announced Monday. The government launched the agri-food pilot three years ago to…

NEW ORLEANS —  “Being in hospitals during the early days of COVID-19 was terrifying, like I was going to war. But as far as I’m concerned, those days are done,” Danielle King, a nurse working in Luling, Louisiana, told VOA. “I think it’s pretty obvious that the pandemic was over…

Photo: Jane Barlow (Getty Images) It’s been 1191 days since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic (or, officially, a public health emergency of international concern) on Jan. 30, 2020. Today, May 5, 2023, after the 15th meeting of the pandemic committee, at the 241th press conference since…

Rochelle Walensky during a Senate HELP Committee hearing on May 4. Walensky, the director of the CDC, will be stepping down from her position in June, according to a resignation letter released Friday. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and…

As the world undergoes varying crises—climate disasters, the covid-19 pandemic, supply chain and banking turbulence—countries with fewer resources have relied on their foreign reserves to keep their economies afloat. What to say to a coworker who is grieving In 2020, during the covid-19 pandemic, governments from Belize to Zambia dipped…