A' LINK'to the new Covid super-strain Omicron has been detected in an Essex school-which now faces

California schools have been open because of, not despiteof, our priority on safety," Newsom said

RELATIONS between Islamabad and Karachi are on the boil.... The latter’s arch rival in Sindh is the MQM whom the PTI has embraced as an ally at the centre — not so much out of love as political compulsions because of a razor-thin majority in the National Assembly.... While the PPP rules in Sindh, the MQM needs support in high places, and despite the fact that both the PTI and MQM happen to be the greatest political threat to each other in Karachi, the two have entered into a marriage of conven

classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling

NEW YORK: Investors dumped risk assets and flocked to havens yesterday as a new variant of the coronavirus made its presence known in global markets. Fears the variant first discovered in South Africa may spread internationally – thwarting the global economic recovery – pushed global bonds and the yen higher while the rand fell to its lowest in a year. Asian stocks, US and eurozone equity futures dropped amid the risk-off tone and crude oil retreated. While researchers are yet to determine wheth

The proportion of GCSE pupils at private schools who achieved straight top grades increased by more

Omicron is now the dominant Covid-19 strain in Ireland health officials have said. The Health

Named the' Deltacron' variant, researchers discovered the new strain in Cyprus.... Leondios

as Covid-19 test manufacturers strain to keep pace with demand.US President Joe Biden will require

PETALING JAYA: Even as more study is needed on the new Covid-19 variant, IHU, epidemiologists say the prevention and control measures will be almost the same with concern largely on the effectiveness of current vaccines against it. The emergence of IHU – which was recently reported in France – is not unexpected by the medical fraternity, which is constantly in discussion regarding potential mutations of the virus, they added. It’s a common behaviour of such viruses to evolve and change or mutate