20 November Jonathan Portes, a professor of economics at the King’s College London, re-tweeted an article that discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on London’s economy and its labour market. According to the London Intelligence report, although London experienced some recovery over the summer, its recovery was much weaker than the rest of the …

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19 November Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 56,394,000 with over 1,352,000 deaths and 36,277,000 recoveries. The US remain the worst hit country with over 11.5 million total confirmed cases and more than a quarter of a million fatalities. India has the second highest number of cases, and is expected to …

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19 November Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, re-tweeted on how nearly 12 million people in the US will lose federal unemployment benefits if lawmakers are unable to agree on a second coronavirus relief package. The onset of the virus saw the Congress spring to action with new …

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19 November The US Navy has postponed its service-wide fitness tests for the third time as the US witnesses a surge in coronavirus cases. The Navy announced that it would be holding just one Physical Fitness Assessment in 2021, which will be extended to the beginning of March. Ukrainian military doctors reported 148 new coronavirus …

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19 November  Global: Global coronavirus infections have passed 56.3 million, meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll exceeds 1.35 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.  US: US Covid-19 infections have passed 11.5 million. The US coronavirus death toll has passed the quarter million mark at 250,537 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. There …

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18 November Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 55,736,000 with over 1,340,000 deaths and 35,870,000 recoveries. The US remain the worst hit country with over 11 million total confirmed cases. India has the second highest number of cases, and is expected to reach 9 million total confirmed cases this week. Brazil …

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18 November Global: Global coronavirus infections have passed 55.6 million, meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll exceeds 1.33 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. US: US Covid-19 infections have passed 11.3 million. The US coronavirus death toll is 248,687 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus hospitalizations in New York have topped …

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18 November European Defence Agency chief executive Jiří Šedivý has warned against cutbacks in military spending due to budgetary pressures caused due to the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has forced several European countries to re-evaluate their defence expenditure. In May, the European Defence Fund received a revised allocation of $9.5bn. The European Defence Agency officials …

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18 November Andrea Garnero, labour market economist at the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the OECD, re-tweeted an article on how the how young adults are losing out because of endless restrictions and unemployment. According to a Financial Times survey, there is growing resentment among people under their 30s as the pandemic …

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17 November Global: Global coronavirus infections have passed 55.2 million, meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll exceeds 1.3 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The world may be able to vaccinate enough people to get the coronavirus pandemic under control by mid-2022, said Ugur Sahin, chief executive officer of BioNTech, Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine …

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