by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Developers globally have yet to produce large-scale trial data showing actual infections in participants, yet Russia granted approval to a COVID-19 vaccine last month, prompting some Western experts to criticize a lack of testing. The head of China’s Sinovac...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Munich Re said it faces claims of at least 100 million euros ($118 million) stemming from the deadly explosion that ravaged much of downtown Beirut last month. The German reinsurer said losses in the “low three-digit-million euro range” are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 8, 2020 | Health, International News, Non-Life
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways on Monday said it would cover medical and quarantine costs for passengers if they contract the new coronavirus after traveling on one of its flights. Airlines around the world are trying to find ways to stimulate demand that has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Japan has told Mauritius it would offer support on an “unprecedented scale,” Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Monday, after a Japanese-owned ship struck a coral reef off the country’s southeast coast in late July and spilled oil....
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Three large wildfires burned in California and a fourth was growing quickly on Monday as a weekend heat wave lingered across large swaths of the western United States. The Creek Fire, which has engulfed the Fresno area in central California and caused the...