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Turkey’s president Recep Erdoğan said on Wednesday the country would enter a gradual normalisation period, privince by province, in March.
Weekend lockdowns, which have been in place since December, would be lifted gradually on a provincial basis subject to low infection numbers, he said.
The roadmap for the opening of restaurants and cafes will be revealed next week.
[The] short-term employment allowance is extended for the last time until end of March.
The pandemic has added $24tn to the global debt mountain over the last year a new study has shown, leaving it at a record $281tn and the worldwide debt-to-GDP ratio at over 355%.
Reuters reports:
The Institute of International Finance’s global debt monitor estimated government support programmes had accounted for half of the rise, while global firms, banks and households added $5.4tn, $3.9tn and $2.6tn respectively.
It has meant that debt as a ratio of world economic output known as gross domestic product surged by 35 percentage points to more than 355% of GDP.
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