12 November The UK has deployed six combat medical technicians from the Royal Army Medical Corps to the Czech Republic to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Czechia requested assistance from NATO’s Euro Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) to aid its response to the pandemic. Germany has cut the quarantine time for service travellers from …

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12 November Leading epidemiologists believe that the tools of economics are helping them to better understand the impact of the Covid-19 disease. David Flynn, an economics commentator and historian, re-tweeted on the importance of economists working alongside epidemiologists to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and design an effective strategy to curb its spread. …

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11 November Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 51,500,000 with over 1,273,000 deaths and 33,576,000 recoveries. The US have the highest number of confirmed cases and reported the highest number of recorded cases in one day, over 200,000, on 10 November. As testing numbers have not increased significantly, this rise in …

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11 November Global: Global coronavirus infections have passed 51.4 million, meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll exceeds 1.2 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. US: Covid-19 infections have passed 10.2 million. The US coronavirus death toll is 239,683 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus infections in the US have already surpassed …

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11 November The German health ministry confirmed that it had sought assistance from the military to help in the safe storage of potential Covid-19 vaccines. Approximately 6,000 German troops are assisting the country in response to the pandemic. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and the armed forces are preparing to roll out a potential …

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11 November Colin Williams, a public policy professor, shared an article on the likelihood of a million people in the UK planning to give up self-employment because their earnings had been exhausted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A London School of Economic (LSE) study revealed that the two-decade long trend of people choosing to work …

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10 November Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached nearly 51 million, with more than 1,263,000 deaths and 33,289,000 recoveries. The US have the highest number of confirmed cases, forming almost a fifth of all cases worldwide, and is continuing to rise. The UK has seen a huge increase in cases in the …

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10 November Vaccine news Global: A senior World Health Organisation official said a Covid-19 vaccine may be rolled out by March 2021 to the most vulnerable. Bruce Aylward told the WHO’s annual ministerial assembly that interim results from Pfizer’s late-stage vaccine trial were “very positive”. The US and Europe are in line to get the …

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10 November Swiss army reservists have been called upon to assist the country’s response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Personnel from Hospital 2 Battalion arrived at the Moudon military base in western Switzerland within 40 hours of notice for deployment. The US military has reported six new Covid-19 cases at various bases in Japan, including …

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10 November William E Spriggs, an economist and professor, shared an article investigating the truth around the number of applicants having applied for unemployment insurance benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic and the number who have received payments when they needed it. According to data collected from the US Department of Labor and the US Treasury, …

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