Browsing: COVID-19

Aljazeera says Africa is transitioning out of the pandemic phase of the COVID-19 outbreak and moving towards a situation where it will be managing the virus over the long term.

The Metro says A new rift has opened between Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon over how to handle the pandemic.

TRT World says Truck blockades of Canada’s capital and US border crossings, including the economically vital bridge to Detroit, have forced the shutdown of a Ford plant – fears of disruption to auto industry in North America.

The Independent says A judge in Italy has ruled against the parents of a two-year-old boy in urgent need of heart surgery after they demanded that doctors only use blood transfusions from unvaccinated donors.

The Metro says the health secretary has pledged to recruit 15,000 new health workers as part of his plan to tackle the NHS waiting list in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Most of Tuesday’s front pages are leading with calls on prime minister Boris Johnson to apologise for comments made about Sir Keir Starmer.

TRT World says Democratic leaders in the US Congress have held a moment of silence to commemorate the 900,000 American lives lost to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Guardian says Dr Brian Resler, an emergency physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently polled a group of doctors on an overnight shift about their jobs.

The Guardian says For nearly a week, Paul Aubue has lived and slept in the cab of his truck, parked in downtown Ottawa.

France24 says a Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with its opening ceremony.