A controversial airline has announced it will pay customers up to £7,000 if they catch coronavirus while flying with them. Vietnamese carrier Vietjet has introduced its new “Sky Covid Care” insurance scheme as a way of protecting customers during the current global pandemic. Under the policy, if a passenger contracts COVID-19 while travelling on a …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and Senate leaders of both parties announced agreement early Wednesday on unprecedented emergency legislation to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. The urgently needed pandemic response measure is the largest economic rescue measure in history and is intended as …
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The old adage “the rich keep getting richer” no longer holds true. The rarefied world of the extravagantly wealthy has lately come under serious assault with the billionaires club seeing its fortunes rapidly shrink in the ongoing stock market rout. About ten days ago, South China Morning Post reported that the world’s 500 richest people …
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(Bloomberg) — Traces of new coronavirus were found on surfaces in cruise-ship cabins for as many as 17 days after passengers left, researchers said, though it wasn’t possible to determine whether they caused any infections. Researchers looked at the rooms of infected passengers aboard the Diamond Princess, both those who showed symptoms and those who …
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As we have previously published months ago, for the record, hydroxychloroquine, sold under the trade name plaqenuil and a common antibiotic azithromycin, is stopping the infection dead in its tracks. be smart and get some. According to the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, they have found early evidence that the combination of hydroxycholorquine, a popular …
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Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted. Now he foresees a similar outcome in the United States and the rest of the world. …
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Treasury secretary says Fed will play key role in helping businesses hurt by coronavirus Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that the Federal Reserve will play a key role in lending funds to businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. “Working with the Federal Reserve — we’ll have up to $4 trillion of liquidity that we …
Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of “continuity of government” plans that include evacuating Washington and “devolving” leadership to second-tier officials in remote and …
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(Reuters) – The British government is planning to buy equity stakes in airlines and other companies affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the Financial Times reported. The government plans to invest billions of pounds in companies including IAG-owned British Airways (ICAG.L) in return for shares that would eventually be sold back to private investors, the newspaper …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In normal times massive unemployment and a collapse in economic output would be tragic. This time, as the coronavirus cloisters millions of Americans and shuts down the U.S. economy, it should instead be saluted as an investment in public health that lays the groundwork for a rapid rebound. That is the view …
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