The severe impact of COVID-19 on Thailand's economy will see the country's non-life insurance market contract by 5.6% this year, forecasts by GlobalData suggest.
A new study in the Netherlands has provided further evidence that exposure to higher levels of air pollution increases the risk of death from COVID-19.
There have been fewer deaths in England and Wales than would normally be expected this year for the fourth week in a row, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.
There has been a surge in the number of people using wearable technology in recent months as they turn to the devices for digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The weekly death toll in England and Wales has fallen below 2019 levels for the first time since late March, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.
Years of dithering over social care reforms by the UK government made it harder to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, according to the majority of over-45s polled by Just Group.
There have been 63,000 more deaths in the UK since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than there were during the same period last year, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has confirmed.
The risk of death among COVID-19 patients on ventilators has been cut by a third using the widely-available steroid dexamethasone in a trial led by scientists from the University of Oxford.
The coronavirus pandemic could lead to a “sharp rise” in antimicrobial resistance due to the widespread use of antibiotics as treatments, microbiologists from Queen's University Belfast have warned.
There has now been a sustained decline in the number of excess deaths recorded in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic, analysis by the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has found.
