7 December Linda Yueh, an economist, shared an article about how managerial practices influence the ability of economies to weather large shocks such as the Great Recession and the more recent Covid-19 crisis. The article draws useful insights from the Great Recession to understand how to build managerial talent and logistics in cushioning economic shocks …

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4 December Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 65,359,000 with over 1,509,000 deaths and 42,072,000 recoveries. The US has reached over 14,000,000 total confirmed cases and 276,383 total confirmed deaths. The number of hospitalized patients with Covid-19 is increasing in the US. On Wednesday, the country reported a record high of …

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4 December Global: Global coronavirus infections have passed 65 million. Meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll has passed 1.5 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. US: US Covid-19 infections have passed 14 million, meanwhile, the US coronavirus death toll is 276,366 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. US president-elect Joe Biden has …

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4 December The US Navy has released details of the US Navy Reserve sailor who died of Covid-19. Huff Bishop, aged 33, is the second US Navy sailor to die from complications related to the disease since the start of the pandemic. US Health and Human Services secretary Alex M. Azar II has reported leaders …

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4 December Greg Ip, chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal, shared an article on how the coronavirus pandemic has pushed nearly 4 million Americans out of the labour market, a 2.2% contraction in the US workforce, with economists fearing that many wouldn’t return at all. The article further notes that women, low-wage workers, …

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3 December Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 64,664,000 with over 1,496,000 deaths and 41,627,000 recoveries. The US, India and Brazil remain the most affected countries. In Europe, newly confirmed deaths are increasing in Germany, Hungary and Austria. Germany reached a record high of 514 new deaths on Wednesday. The country …

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3 December Digisoft and Accesso Technology Group have collaborated with Irish Defence Forces to develop a wearable Covid-19 tracker to manage disease protocols among its troops. The Irish forces have started investigating this approach to Covid-19 risk management, along with the technology firms. They are trialling the technology in military trainings and troop deployments in …

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3 December  Global: Coronavirus infections have passed 64.5 million. Meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll approaches 1.5 million. Currently, the world is regularly suffering more than 10,000 deaths per day according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.  US: Covid-19 infections are heading towards 14 million, meanwhile, the US coronavirus death toll is 273,835 according to …

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3 December Digisoft and accesso Technology Group have collaborated with the Irish Defence Forces to develop a wearable Covid-19 tracker to manage disease protocols among its troops. The Defence Forces are currently investigating this approach to Covid-19 risk management along with the technology firms, in its military training and deployment of troops to overseas peacekeeping …

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3 December Faisal Islam, an economics editor at the BBC, shared a Resolution Foundation report on safeguarding governments’ financial health during the coronavirus crisis by taking examples from the previous crises. The report anticipated double-digit hits to the gross domestic product (GDP), as well as borrowing earlier in March, weighing the losses to be the …

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