by Lois C. Ferrara | Apr 6, 2020 | Business News
Tokyo: Japan’s prime minister on Monday proposed a state of emergency for several major regions seeing a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, as well as a stimulus package worth $1 trillion to cushion the impact on the world’s third-biggest economy. The official declaration of the state of emergency would likely come as soon as Tuesday, […]
by Lois C. Ferrara | Apr 5, 2020 | Business News
India is restricting the export of most diagnostic testing kits, as coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation topped 3,350 on Sunday despite a three-week nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the respiratory disease. India, which in recent weeks already banned...
by Lois C. Ferrara | Apr 2, 2020 | Business News
JOHANNESBURG: Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the coronavirus as a threat, but some of their fighters also see the upheaval from the pandemic as an opportunity to win over more supporters and strike harder than before. Messages from the Islamic extremist...
by Lois C. Ferrara | Mar 30, 2020 | Business News
Bengaluru: Four more employees of the pharmaceutical company in Nanjangud near Mysuru were tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the factory to 10. But how the first patient, a 35-year-old man who worked in the quality...
by Lois C. Ferrara | Mar 28, 2020 | Business News
ROME: Europe was reeling from a staggering surge in coronavirus deaths Saturday, still days or weeks from what experts desperately hope will be the epidemic’s peak. Grim new tolls from Italy and Spain came as the IMF confirmed the world economy has plunged into...
