COVID-19 Updates
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A climate disaster must be averted at all costs. Not so a financial meltdown
T.S. Eliot once asked: “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” Where indeed? We seem to have a severe…
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The Covid crisis: some people think it’s all over … it isn’t
A new reality check is coming unless the west replicates its ‘whatever-it-takes approach’ to help poorer countries cope Denial. Panic. False dawn. Relief mingled with a decent dollop of euphoria.…
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Coronavirus: Eastern Europe scrambles for unwanted AstraZeneca jabs amid infection surge
As safety concerns prompt western European countries to limit the use of AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus shot, Ukraine is leading a charge from the continent’s east to scoop up unwanted doses.The…
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Path to herd immunity: Hongkongers should get the coronavirus vaccine for the good of society
In the summer of 1972, I spent a few weeks camping out on the beach in Darwin in northern Australia. The mini settlement, of some 200 young people, was visited…
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Coronavirus: Japan asks Pfizer for more vaccines; India’s Modi urges ‘symbolic’ Kumbh Mela festival
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has asked US drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of its Covid-19 vaccine to speed up an inoculation drive that is lagging behind many…
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong expecting 30 cases, mostly imported, while officials ramp up warnings of possible surge
Hong Kong was expecting to confirm 30 coronavirus cases on Sunday, 29 of which were imported, according to a source, as officials ramped up warnings of an infection surge amid…
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Coronavirus set to scar world economy for decades amid an uneven, unequal recovery, observers say
Just as some patients recovering from Covid-19 suffer long-lasting symptoms, it is becoming clear that the same will be true for the global economy once this year’s V-shaped rebound fades.While…
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Coronavirus live news: France to impose 10-day quarantine on Brazil arrivals; Oscars reinvented for pandemic – as it happened
UK put 600,000 vaccine doses into arms on Friday; Global death toll tops 3m Pandemic made 2020 ‘the year of the quiet ocean’, say scientists What are the new Covid…
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Serco brazens out Covid calamity as the profits roll in
Despite the firm’s test and trace failings, boss Rupert Soames’s £4.9m package is set to be approved by well-rewarded investors What do you do when your company finds itself at…
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US coronavirus cases rise 8% in two weeks as more states ease restrictions
Michigan, which had some of the nation’s strongest health regulations, saw its second highest single-day case total on Friday While the United States’ Covid-19 vaccination initiative has eclipsed that of…