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Letters: Diane La Rosa and Teresa Pacey-Devlin on the deaths of their fathers during the pandemic. Plus more letters responding to the Covid inquiry from John Robinson, David Flood and James Townsend

Founded in 2025 as a community space for lesbians and local activists, the downtown Greenfield spot was one of few remaining queer venues in the region

The makers of Scene have released a new glimpse of Suriya as DSP Inbaraj on Monday, showing the actor in a masked, Covid-era avatar.

Last Ditch bar announced it would ‘soft close’ after it went viral following a story on its attempt to relax Covid rules

The Massachusetts bar, which catered to lesbians, lifted its Covid mask requirement once a week to attract more patrons. The decision brought criticism and national attention, but did not save the business.

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r/trackandfield 7d ago u/blvd93 Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis T&F News bbc.co.uk Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.…

UK government failures caused the Covid virus to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and elderly people, an inquiry has found. We’d like to hear your thoughts

Relatives recount distress and loneliness their loved ones went through in pandemic as a result of isolation policy

Sometimes referred to as ‘Stratus’ or the ‘American strain’, the variant first identified in January 2025 has since spread worldwide

GENEVA As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential health services and operations are continued to protect the lives of people with TB and other diseases or health conditions.…

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact across the world. Efforts to contain the coronavirus are vital to the health of the world’s population, but they are also exposing children to increased risk of violence – including maltreatment,…

A new story book that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector.…

The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with support from UNICEF are set to work with telecommunication companies to text people directly on their mobile phones with vital health messaging to help protect them…

The heads of the United Nations’ major agencies have issued a warning of the risk of COVID-19 to the world’s most vulnerable countries. International donors have pledged around a quarter of the US$2 billion the UN requested in the Global Humanitarian…

Shutting down immunization services in the COVID-19 pandemic risks triggering a resurgence of diseases that can be prevented with safe and effective vaccines, warns WHO in the lead-up to World Immunization Week (24-30 April).

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has seen a dramatic increase in the number of cyber attacks directed at its staff, and email scams targeting the public at large.

Tobacco kills more than 8 million people globally every year. More than 7 million of these deaths are from direct tobacco use and around 1.2 million are due to non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.…

Geneva, 15 May 2020 – Presidents Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica and Sebastián Piñera of Chile joined WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today to announce progress on a technology platform that aims to lift access barriers to…

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency today signed a new agreement to strengthen and advance public health services for the millions of forcibly displaced people around the world.The agreement updates and expands an existing…