A group of Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers have voluntarily withdrawn their federal lawsuit that had sought to use New York state laws to force the retailer to provide more protections for workers from Covid-19 infections.

Omicron, the current dominant coronavirus strain, likely originated in West Africa even though it was first identified in the south of the continent, according to a study led by South Africa’s Stellenbosch University and Charite -Universitatsmedizin Berlin.

Workers must be able to communicate digitally in the modern workplace that evolved during the pandemic, the National Labor Relations Board’s legal arm said, arguing in favor of overturning a Trump-era restriction on employee email use.

Younger, less-educated, Hispanic and Black people were most likely to have been infected with Covid-19 without having been vaccinated, according to a government study that highlights continuing disparities in immunization rates.

Santa Clara County lost its bid for the California Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court refusal to impose some $217,000 in fines and penalties against a church that defied pandemic-related shutdown orders.

California Bar reform is on the to-do list for the next state supreme court chief justice along with bringing in mediators for oversight, retiring Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said Wednesday.

A CNA Financial insurance unit must reimburse policyholder Smile Savers Dentistry’s Covid-related losses after a Pennsylvania appeals court determined that the dental office sufficiently showed property damage.