The United States is poised to surpass its record for covid-19 hospitalizations as soon as Tuesday, with no end in sight to skyrocketing case loads, falling staff levels and the struggles of Continue Reading
COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States reached a record high on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as a surge in infections caused by the highly contagious Omicron variant strains Continue Reading
Cities across Germany braced for major protests against coronavirus restrictions on Monday, and a tough new vaccine requirement came into force in Italy as governments across Europe continued to tighten Continue Reading
Rystad Energy’s head of oil markets, Bjornar Tonhaugen, offers his insight. Real-time transportation data globally suggests there has not been any significant impact on oil demand so far from Omicron. Continue Reading
On the first day of 2022, outside Xi’an Gaoxin Hospital, in the middle of China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since Wuhan, a woman eight months pregnant miscarried after being refused care until she Continue Reading
China imposed a partial shutdown on the 1.3 million residents of Yuzhou, a city in the central province of Henan, after finding three asymptomatic cases of Covid-19. Hong Kong also Continue Reading
Germany is contemplating further measures to contain Covid-19 as the omicron variant threatens to become the dominant strain in the country by mid-January. When Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets with state Continue Reading
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a “tsunami” of cases between them, but he’s still Continue Reading
In the central Chinese city of Xi’an, 13 million people are dealing with one of the world’s strictest coronavirus lockdowns. Residents have been ordered to stay in their homes since Monday, with Continue Reading
The average number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States hit a record high of 258,312 over the past seven days, a Reuters tally showed on Wednesday, as Continue Reading
