by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Hong Kong: Asian equities took another beating Thursday while the dollar surged as a European Central Bank plan to spend more than USD 800 billion to buy bonds failed to instil optimism in traders that the world is heading for a virus-fuelled economic catastrophe....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank launched new bond purchases worth 750 billion euros at an emergency meeting late on Wednesday in a bid to stop a pandemic-induced financial rout shredding the euro zone’s economy and renew concerns about the bloc’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Boston: AIR Worldwide, the Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm, projected the number of severe cases of COVID-19 could range between 200,000 and 900,000 globally, with deaths ranging from 10,000 to 30,500, from now until April 1.During the same time...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Beijing was hit by a record number of imported cases of the coronavirus as new local transmissions in China fell to zero, putting more pressure on the Chinese capital to screen out infected passengers and isolate suspected cases.It was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
NEW DELHI: When Mrinal Sabharwal and his wife landed in New Delhi with hundreds of other passengers from Barcelona on Monday, they expected clean coronavirus quarantine facilities.Instead, after hours of waiting at the airport and on a bus, they were taken to a...
