(Adds details, background) JOHANNESBURG, March 29 (Reuters) – South Africa’s National Treasury said on Sunday it was introducing a new tax subsidy of 500 rand ($28) per month for each …
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s 750 billion euro ($834 billion) package to soften the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak on Europe’s largest economy will last for about two months, an …
The spectre of disease, pandemic, and death have been with us since life emerged on this rock. And once we got around to discovering music, homo sapiens (and perhaps Neanderthals, …
Deliveroo, the food delivery service, is to deliver 500,000 free meals to NHS workers across Britain as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies. Sky News has learnt that the company will announce …
The disease first emerged in the city of Wuhan towards the end of last year – but much is yet to be discovered about the mechanism by which it did …
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has placed an order for 10,000 ventilators to be made by a consortium of companies including Ford (F.N), Airbus (AIR.PA) and Rolls-Royce (RR.L) as part of …
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – China’s trillion dollar asset-management market opens wider this week, forcing BlackRock, Vanguard Group and other global firms to make a strategic decision: Go it alone or …
WUHAN, China (Reuters) – The growing number of imported coronavirus cases in China risked fanning a second wave of infections at a time when “domestic transmission has basically been stopped”, …
Restaurant employees are feeling the pressure as people stay safe at home to avoid getting the novel coronavirus. In many cities, restaurants have been forced to partially shut down and …
With nine coronavirus cases already confirmed, Gaza’s medical facilities are gearing up for the pandemic’s onslaught. Scarcely two years ago Gaza’s border with Israel was a deadly front line, with …