13 January Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 91,717,000 with over 1,965,000 deaths and 50,751,000 recoveries. The US, India, and Brazil remain the top three most affected countries, with Brazil reporting the highest overall case fatality rate of the three at 2.5%. The US and India are experiencing case fatality rates …

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13 January Global: Covid-19 has claimed 1.96 million lives worldwide as coronavirus infections pass 91.6 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. US: Covid-19 infections have passed 22.8 million. Meanwhile, the US coronavirus death toll is 380,796 according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. UK: More coronavirus patients are on mechanical ventilation in the …

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13 January Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, a Federal Reserve and economy watcher at Market News International, re-tweeted on Brazilian data reporting a modest 50.4% efficacy for China’s CoronaVac vaccine in preventing the symptomatic infections of Covid-19 in a clinical trial. The figure, as a result, did not qualify for regulatory approval and was below the …

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12 January Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have passed 91 million at 91,022,306 with over 1,948,000 deaths and 50,405,000 recoveries. The US, India, and Brazil remain the top three most affected countries with daily increases in the number of new confirmed cases observed across all. California remains the most heavily affected US state …

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12 January Global: Covid-19 has claimed 1.94 million lives worldwide as coronavirus infections near 91 million according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The WHO’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan warned that it will take time to produce and administer enough doses to halt the spread of the virus and that herd immunity is not achievable …

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12 January Linda Nazareth, senior fellow for economics and population change at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, shared an article on the challenges and uncertainties around self-employed workers getting vaccinated in the US. For instance, janitors, nurses, midwives, and others who are self-employed in jobs that expose them to the SARs-CoV-2 infection, are looking for answers …

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11 January Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 90,367,000 with over 1,936,000 deaths and 50,011,000 recoveries. The US, India, and Brazil remain the top three most affected countries in the new year with daily increases in the number of new confirmed cases observed across all. The UK continues to see surges …

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11 January Global: Today marks a year since the first coronavirus death was announced in Wuhan. China announced the first death from a new virus in Wuhan on 11 January 2020. Twelve months later, Covid-19 has claimed more than 1.9 million lives worldwide. Coronavirus infections have passed 90 million.  Meanwhile, the global coronavirus death toll …

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11 January Global economic output is expected to expand by four percent in 2021 but will still remain more than five percent below pre-pandemic trends. Harry A Patrinos, an education economist and manager at the World Bank, discusses how the Covid-19 is most likely to hold up human capital development. He shared a World Bank …

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8 January Globally, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 have reached over 88,100,000, with over 1,900,000 deaths and 49,100,000 recoveries. The US, India, and Brazil remain the top three most affected countries in the new year. The US has reported more than 3,800 COVID-19 deaths this week, continuing to break unwanted records. Arizona is becoming …

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