A U.N. panel of health experts released a report Monday that highlights slow responses to COVID-19 in early 2020. ( read original story ...)
China rushes to build coronavirus quarantine center for 4,000 as it battles local outbreaks
China is racing to build a quarantine center to house 4,000 people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang, the epicenter of the country’s latest outbreak of covid-19, which Beijing has largely contained ... ( read original story ...)
China, WHO should have acted quicker to stop pandemic: expert panel
A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether ... ( read original story ...)
Maldives to be the first country to receive Indian COVID-19 vaccine
The Maldives will become the first country to receive the Indian COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. The Indian Ocean island country will receive Oxford Astrazeneca's COVISHIELD vaccine produced by Serum ... ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: Qatar Fund Put Pandemic Bets on Distressed Debt, High-Grade Bonds – Sources
Qatar Investment Authority is generating strong returns on a multi-billion dollar bet it made on distressed debt and highly rated bonds at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, two sources familiar with ... ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: Qatar Fund Put Pandemic Bets on Distressed Debt, High-Grade Bonds – Sources
Qatar Investment Authority is generating strong returns on a multi-billion dollar bet it made on distressed debt and highly rated bonds at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, two sources familiar with ... ( read original story ...)
Armenia should consider all possibilities of using spent nuclear fuel, opposition MP says
Armenia should consider all the possibilities of using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), MP Mikael Melkumyan from the opposition Prosperous Armenia party said during a parliament session on Monday. ... ( read original story ...)
Why is gasoline getting more expensive in Georgia?
Gasoline prices in Georgia have risen 6.1¢ per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.21 per gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 5,883 stations in Georgia. This compares with the ... ( read original story ...)
What Georgia Means for the Markets
Dow futures were up and Nasdaq futures were down as the prospect of a Democratic sweep became more likely. The thinking, market watchers say, is that the old-economy stocks in the Dow would benefit ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore dangles digital whisky trade to lure Asia’s wealthy
Singapore is fast becoming a hotbed of activity for the trading of whisky assets, with private exchange HGX the latest to get in on the action, announcing the launch of a blockchain-based service for ... ( read original story ...)