Royal Dutch Shell is considering making it mandatory for workers in some operations to get COVID-19 vaccinations or risk being fired, an internal company document seen by Reuters shows. The Continue Reading
Companies are delaying sending employees back on the road this fall amid another surge in coronavirus cases. Airlines and hotels had hoped that business travel—one of the most lucrative pillars Continue Reading
More than 40 million cases of the coronavirus have been recorded in the United States, according to a New York Times database. The total number of known infections, more than Continue Reading
Sydney, the epicentre of Australia’s biggest coronavirus outbreak, is expected to see daily infections peak next week, authorities said on Monday, as they look to speed up immunisations before easing Continue Reading
Brian Pierce, the coroner in Baldwin County, Ala., thought he had seen the last of the coronavirus months ago as the area’s death count held steady at 318 for most Continue Reading
The daily average for hospitalized Covid-19 patients in the United States is now more than 100,000. That average, calculated over the last seven days, is higher than in any previous Continue Reading
Australia reported a record 1,126 coronavirus infectious on Saturday, the vast majority in New South Wales, the epicenter of the Delta-fuelled outbreak. More than half of Australians have been in Continue Reading
Wealthy countries are finalizing plans to roll out Covid-19 booster programs to counter the threat from waning vaccine immunity, decisions that will further squeeze the supplies available to the developing Continue Reading
Sydney’s outbreak of delta variant cases is worsening, with new daily infections in New South Wales state passing 1,000 for the first time. India recorded the highest daily tally in Continue Reading
The recent resurgence in Covid-19 infections in many parts of the world led not just to a slump in oil prices but growing pessimism about the prospects of oil demand. Continue Reading
