By The Financial DistrictMay 14, 20211 minWHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL VACCINATED World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
By The Financial DistrictMar 24, 20212 minTRUMP’S ‘CHINESE VIRUS’ TWEET SPURRED ANTI-ASIAN TWEETS, ATTACKSWhat followed then-President Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweet, a study has found, was a steep rise in tweets containing anti-Asian...
By The Financial DistrictJan 8, 20211 minEU AGENCY GREENLIGHTS MODERNA COVID-19 VACCINEThe European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the conditional market authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Moderna...
By The Financial DistrictDec 30, 20202 minCHINA IMPRISONS CITIZEN-JOURNALIST FOR REPORTING ON WUHAN OUTBREAKA Chinese court on Monday handed down a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the...
By The Financial DistrictNov 3, 20201 minWHO CHIEF QUARANTINES AFTER CONTACT WITH COVID PATIENT World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he had been identified as a contact of someone who...
By The Financial DistrictOct 27, 20202 minBELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN INTENSIVE CAREBelgian Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès has been admitted to intensive care after testing positive for COVID-19.
-Jun 7, 20201 minUK DOCS TAG HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS USELESS VS COVID-19British scientists halted a major drug trial on Friday after it found that the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, touted by US President Dona
-Jun 6, 20201 minCHINA ORDERS PROTECTION FOR PANGOLINSChina has ordered the highest level of protection for the armadillo-like pangolin as part of its crackdown on the wildlife trade following t
-Jun 6, 20201 minMALAYSIA OKs ADDITIONAL $8.2-B COVID-19 STIMULUS PACKAGEMalaysia’s government has announced an additional 35 billion ringgit ($8.2 billion) stimulus to bolster short-term economic recovery as the
-Jun 4, 20202 minCHINA DELAYED RELEASE OF CORONAVIRUS INFO, WHO EXECS GROUSEThroughout January, the World Health Organization (WHO) publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus a
-Jun 4, 20201 minGLITCH GIVES LOANS TWICE TO SMALL US BUSINESSESA technical snafu in a US government system caused many small businesses to receive loans twice or more under a federal aid program to help
-Jun 4, 20202 minBILLIONAIRE SCIENTIST CLAIMS US HAS OKd MONKEY TESTS FOR HIS VACCINEThe race for a COVID-19 vaccine has a dark horse entrant. Billionaire scientist and businessman Patrick Soon-Shiong announced in a 27 May in
-Jun 4, 20202 min16 US RETAILERS, RESTAURANT CHAINS HAVE FILED FOR BANKRUPTCYAine Cain and Madeline Stone of Business Insider on June 2, 2020 released a list of 16 US retailers and restaurant chains that have filed fo
-Jun 4, 20201 minITALY ISSUES TOURISM WARNINGItaly’s foreign minister is warning that the European Union will “collapse” if governments treat Italians like lepers over the coronavirus a
-Jun 4, 20201 minGERMANY SEEKS FRESH $112-B COVID-19 STIMULUS PACKAGEGermany could launch a fresh package of stimulus of as much as 100 billion euros ($112 billion) to defend against the coronavirus pandemic,
-Jun 3, 20201 minECB EXPECTS TO INTENSIFY EUROZONE SUPPORTThe European Central Bank (ECB) could announce on Thursday, June 4, 2020 that it would release hundreds of billions of euros in new bond-buy
-Jun 3, 20201 minASIA’S FACTORY OUTPUT WOES WORSENAsia’s factory pain deepened in May as the slump in global trade caused by the COVID-19 pandemic worsened, with export powerhouses Japan and
-Jun 2, 20202 minCOVID 19 WAR CHEST: $4.55 BILLIONThe government has borrowed new foreign loans of US$4.55 billion as of mid-May to boost its Covid-19 war chest in providing relief to the
-Jun 2, 20202 minFRANCO-GERMAN EURO RECOVERY FUND AND ITS IMPLICATIONS The €500 billion ($547 billion) COVID-19 recovery fund proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron has
-Jun 2, 20201 minINDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS MARKET IN RUSSIA TO SLUMP 10%Industrial companies will reduce investments into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) projects by 10% to 7.1 bln rubles ($101.1 mIllion
-Jun 2, 20201 minRUSSIA BEATS CHINA ON COVID-19 DRUGRussia will start delivering the drug Avifavir on June 11 to control the COVID-19 infection, Tass reported on May 31, 2020 as it quoted a re
-Jun 1, 20201 minTRUMP POSTPONES JUNE G7 SUMMIT AFTER MERKEL SNUBUS President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday (Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Manila) that he was postponing a Group of 7 meeting scheduled
-Jun 1, 20201 minCUBAN DOCS USE BIOMODULIN TO STOP COVID-19 AMONG ELDERLYIn the fight against COVID-19, Cuba is implementing drug-based protocols developed for other pathologies, one of which uses Biomodulin T, a
-Jun 1, 20201 minBRAZIL OVERTAKES SPAINBrazil has overtaken Spain for the number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 to become the country with the fifth highest toll, according to