Pandemic

Health Minister Will Quince confirmed that the Department of Health spent £15,300 on 14 lavish wash and dry devices at the height of the first Covid lockdown, with Labour branding it 'one rule for them and another for everyone else' NHS staff resorted to wearing bin bags because they didn't…

He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead Mr Hancock complained that Ministers are the targets of judicial review (Image: Getty…

Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of top stories in pictures. :: Weather and the talk of it were hard to miss as snow dominated SoCal headlines following intense winter storms that brought Los Angeles its longest cold snap in almost 20 years. The heavy snow buried California mountain…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday slammed the world's rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with "predatory" interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Speaking in the Qatari capital, Doha, Guterres told leaders of more than 40 of the most deprived states that wealthy nations should provide $500…

Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty Images Workers and companies see benefits of remote workIn 2019, about 5% of full-time work was done from home. The share ballooned to more than 60% in April and May 2020, in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, said Nicholas Bloom, an economist…

The percentage of Americans who hold a biblical worldview fell to 4 percent during the pandemic, while the percentage of self-identified Christians and born-again Christians who hold such a worldview also plummeted, according to a new poll. The survey by researcher George Barna at the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University…

2 minute read       Ritz-Carlton March, 2 2023   Olivier Lau - General Manager - Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner announced the recent appointment of Olivier Lau to the role of General Manager. With nearly two decades of hospitality experience, Olivier brings a plethora of knowledge to his new…

The White House on Thursday laid out its plan to target pandemic fraudsters and recapture stolen relief funds distributed under both the Trump and Biden administrations. A top White House official said the goal was to provide $600 million to investigate and prosecute systemic pandemic fraud, a similar amount to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the 35 years before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government invested at least $337 million into critical research that led to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, according to a study published by The BMJ today. The U.S. government also paid $31.6 billion during the pandemic to…

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said publicly Tuesday that federal investigators believe the COVID-19 pandemic likely started from a lab leak in Wuhan, China. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Mr. Wray…