As countries around the world face the COVID-19 pandemic, the DRC Ebola response provides valuable lessons. Many of the public health measures that have been successful in stopping Ebola are the same measures that are now essential for stopping COVID-19: finding, isolating, testing, and caring for every case and relentless contact tracing.

IMF chief Georgieva says coronavirus crisis could ultimately test $1 trillion war chest

Jun 26, 2020

The IMF on Tuesday forecast a deeper global recession than initially anticipated, as business closures, travel restrictions and social distancing measures persist in most countries. It now anticipates a global GDP contraction of 4.9% this year and a total output loss of $12 trillion through the end of 2021

UN chief criticises lack of global cooperation on COVID-19

Jun 25, 2020

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it’s important to use that fact to make countries understand that bringing them together, putting together their capacities, not only in fighting the pandemic in a coordinated way but in working together to have the treatments, testing mechanisms, the vaccines accessible to everybody, that this is the way we defeat the pandemic.

SoftBank-backed Lemonade plans to raise up to $286 million in IPO

Jun 25, 2020

The company, which started in New York in late 2016, is part of a growing number of young companies looking to shake up the insurance sector through a better use of technology.

The company says it has digitized the entire insurance process, replacing brokers and paperwork with algorithms and providing policies in as little as 90 seconds and claim payments in three minutes.

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