Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Sat 21 March 2020: (REUTERS) Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations, a senior economist at FAO and agricultural analysts said. The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy […]

Sat 21 March 2020: The impact of the global coronavirus pandemic will be “quite severe,” but a long expansionary period and high employment rates mean the global economy should weather the current shock, a top International Monetary Fund official said on Friday. Martin Muehleisen, who heads the IMF’s strategy policy and review department, said in […]

Sat 21 March 2020: (REUTERS) Mainland China reported zero locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus for a third day running, while the daily log of infections involving travellers arriving from other countries continued to rise. Mainland China had 41 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Friday, the country’s National Health Commission said, all imported […]

Tedros-Adhanom-Ghebreyesus(WHO) AFP Sat 21 March 2020: The World Health Organization said Friday that the Chinese epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak at last reporting no new cases gave hope to the rest of the world battling the pandemic. The city of Wuhan registered no new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours – for the first time […]

Sat 21 March 2020: The death toll from coronavirus passed 10,000 as Spain became the fourth country to report more than 1,000 fatalities. The UAE announced its first deaths on Saturday morning. The victims were a 78-year-old Arab man who had returned from Europe and a 58-year-old Asian man. The first died of a heart […]