covid

First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 – study

The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the…

4 years ago

Shocked by COVID deaths, young Indians rush for life insurance

BENGALURU, June 16 (Reuters) - Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy,…

4 years ago

How can water utilities in the Pacific use the pandemic to become more resilient?

By Vivian Castro-Wooldridge Protecting and managing the water supply, even in the face of threats and challenges, is a key responsibility…

4 years ago

3 ways Asia can inspire learning through skills, tech, artificial intelligence

Developing world that it will displace human workers with automation and artificial intelligence (AI)

4 years ago

Analysis: India’s vaccine inequity worsens as countryside languishes

Urban Indians are getting COVID-19 shots much faster than the hundreds of millions of people living in the countryside, government…

4 years ago

Australia’s Victoria COVID-19 cluster swells to 51, next few days ‘critical’

Australia's second-most populous state of Victoria, the epicentre of the country's latest coronavirus hotspot, reported 11 new cases of community…

4 years ago

Myanmar COVID-19 outbreak hits health system shattered after coup

Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive, the new coronavirus patients at a hospital…

5 years ago

Why school closure is a last resort

By Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Sungsup Ra, Ryotaro Hayashi School reopening should be done on a risk-based approach – with situations closely monitored, particularly…

5 years ago

India records more than 4,000 daily COVID-19 deaths

India reported a smaller rise in daily COVID-19 cases for the third straight day on Sunday, but the number of…

5 years ago

Germany’s 2021 election and why it matters to markets

It’s rare for German elections to be exciting, market-moving events but the one on Sept. 26 may prove the exception…

5 years ago