MARCH 20, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Covid-19 operations center in Washington. The department ran an extensive exercise last year simulating a pandemic.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China and was quickly spread around the world by air travelers, who ran high fevers. In the United States, it was first detected in...
MARCH 19, 2020
From setting up an economic task force to addressing the recent panic buying of consumers, the Indian Prime Minister listed out a few things that the government was doing to fight the pandemic. He also appealed for a nationwide self-imposed curfew on Sunday and asked citizens not to burden the healthcare system unless absolutely necessary.
Indian Prime...
MARCH 19, 2020
A logo of IndiGo Airlines - REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta has announced pay cut for all employees and will himself take 25 per cent cut in salary. The move comes in light of the unprecedented loss that airlines all over the world are suffering due to the global outbreak of Covid-19.
Most likely to join the same...
MARCH 18, 2020
A closed sign hangs in the door of a Converse shoe store Monday, March 15, 2020, in Phoenix as a maintenance worker passes by. Nike, which owns Converse, is closing all of its stores in the U.S., along with other parts of the world, to try to curb the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. According to the World...
MARCH 18, 2020
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Wednesday described the coronavirus pandemic as an unprecedented threat.
"This coronavirus is presenting us with an unprecedented threat. But it's also an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy," Adhanom told reporters.
The WHO chief described the trial for coronavirus...
MARCH 18, 2020
Fake blood is seen in test tubes labelled with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in this illustration taken March 17, 2020. (Reuters file photo)
A study published in 2015 in the Nature journal had warned that severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) like viruses circulating in Chinese bat populations may pose a serious future threat.
The study was co-authored by Shi...
MARCH 17, 2020
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. - Reuters
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin raised the possibility with Republican senators that U.S. unemployment could rise to 20% without government intervention because of the impact of the coronavirus, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mnuchin discussed the scenario with the lawmakers on Tuesday as he proposed an economic...
MARCH 17, 2020
Former New York City mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg announced on Tuesday a $40 million commitment to support "immediate action" to fight the spread of the coronavirus in low and middle-income countries.
It follows an initiative he started last week to help mayors respond to the spread of COVID-19, by providing a virtual support network that connects them...
MARCH 17, 2020
President Donald Trump. - Win McNamee/Getty Images
Few Americans trust President Donald Trump when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey, and less than half of respondents believe the federal government is taking sufficient steps to combat the public health crisis.
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Tuesday shows that only 37 percent of those polled...
MARCH 17, 2020
FILE PHOTO: A logo for Pfizer is displayed on a monitor on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., July 29, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc has signed a deal with Germany's BioNTech SE <22UAy.F> to co-develop a potential vaccine for the coronavirus using BioNTech's mRNA-based drug development platform,...
