Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will attend the US government fraud court hearing against her on May 5, 2021. CNBC Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes promised a technological breakthrough, but it really was a house of cards, prosecutors said during a trial Wednesday. “Miss Holmes went out, told the world, and told investors, we have…

Medical workers take a patient to the emergency room at Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York on March 8, 2021. Michael Nagle | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Covid-19 cases are likely to pick up again in the US as the highly contagious variant B.1.1.7 makes its way across the…

The White Lion Pub in Covent Garden, UK. SOPA pictures | LightRocket | Getty Images With lands no longer locked, pub and restaurant owners have a simple plea for punters: honor your bookings. It has been estimated that drinkers and guests who do not cancel before canceling a reservation will cost the UK hospitality industry…

President Joe Biden announced his administration’s latest goals in the fight against the coronavirus on Tuesday: 70% of adults in the US should receive at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, and 160 million adults should be fully vaccinated by July 4. The new vaccination targets came two months after Independence Day, a date…

Shoppers wearing protective masks walk past Ion Orchard Mall on Orchard Road in Singapore on Tuesday April 13, 2021. Lauryn Ishak | Bloomberg | Getty Images Increased Covid Rules Singapore also announced stricter measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the city as local infections rise. From May 8, travelers from higher risk…

The Covid outbreak in India puts the rest of the world at risk and leaves a “humanitarian disaster,” warned the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health on Monday. “India is a big country, and of course if there are big outbreaks there we will worry about more variants that will be bad for…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks wearing his face mask about the rise in coronavirus cases in the state during a press conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on July 13, 2020. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an ordinance on Monday suspending immediately all pending local…

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past graffiti amid the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on a street in Mumbai, India, on March 30, 2021. Francis Mascarenhas | Reuters India’s second wave of Covid-19 infections shows no signs of slowing as the country’s overstretched health system faces supply shortages of hospital beds, oxygen,…

Ground staff unload coronavirus disease (COVID-19) supplies from the United States at the cargo terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport on April 30, 2021 in New Delhi, India. Prakash Singh | Reuters WASHINGTON – White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said Sunday that the Biden government plans to distribute the coronavirus vaccine to India…

16-year-old Thomas Gregory will be vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by Nurse Cindy Lamica at UMass Memorial Health Care’s COVID-19 Vaccination Center at the Mercantile Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on April 22, 2021. Joseph Precious | AFP | Getty Images Data on how well the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine works in children ages 5-11 could…