On Friday, the Italian Minister of Finance unleashed a political storm as he signed a rescue agreement in the euro zone involving the rescue fund of the European stability mechanism of the region, a politically toxic prospect in Rome. Roberto Gualtieri was among the ministers who signed an economic package of 500 billion euros on … Read more
One day after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador slammed the door on a rescue plan to help Mexican companies overcome the coronavirus pandemic, some Mexicans are afraid that the timid response will strike a fatal blow at the small businesses that run the second largest economy in Latin America. Rather than following the lead of … Read more
From the appropriate social distance, Dave offers joyful advice to a customer who is filling up with ketamine as the foreclosure of the German capital, Berlin, begins to bite. “When you think a little more would be good, go ahead and go make another bump!” he said, indifferent to the nearby police. “Everything that feels … Read more
China’s official manufacturing index rebounded to register an unexpected expansion in March, government data revealed on Tuesday after falling sharply in February as the coronavirus epidemic put an end to work in most of the country. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the official index of purchasing managers in the manufacturing sector rose to … Read more
On a cool day in late September, half a dozen Chinese engineers entered a conference room in the heart of the United Nations district in Geneva with a radical idea. They had an hour to convince delegates from more than 40 countries of their vision: an alternative form of the Internet, to replace the technological … Read more
According to Google Trends, the hottest topic this week is “orthohantavirus” because parasitic websites claim it is the next pandemic on the horizon. Take it from me: it isn’t. This baseless claim circulating online highlights the need to get health information from reliable sources – and that you shouldn’t believe everything you read on social … Read more
China’s official figures for new cases of coronavirus suggest that transmission has virtually stopped in many regions, but local experts have warned that official figures omit important categories of cases. Hubei, the province of origin of the epidemic, did not report more than one new case per day for more than a week, which allowed … Read more
A few days after the three-week national lockdown came into effect, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 1.7 trillion rupee food security and income transfer program for the urban and rural poor. Package includes free food for 800 million people for three months, insurance coverage for essential service providers, front-loading PM Kisan payments and … Read more
It was Friday, March 13, when the doctors at New York’s largest health care provider decided to take over the search for a coronavirus drug. Many of their Covid-19 patients did not improve – and some worsened. Two of the hospital scientists each called their contacts in the US biotechnology companies Gilead Sciences and Regeneron … Read more