The epicentre of the pandemic is currently in countries of Central, South and North America, particularly the United States, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said.

UK offers 10 billion pounds in guarantees for trade credit insurance

Jun 4, 2020

Several countries including France, Germany and the Netherlands have introduced similar schemes, and Britain has also expanded its export credit guarantee scheme, which typically supports trade in developing markets, to cover developed markets.

Self-driving cars could only prevent a third of U.S. crashes – study

Jun 4, 2020

Companies developing self-driving vehicles, including traditional automakers and technology companies, have repeatedly positioned fully automated driving as a tool to drastically reduce road deaths by taking the human driver out of the equation.But the IIHS study outlined a more nuanced picture of human driver error, showing that not all mistakes can be eliminated by camera, radar and other sensor-based driverless technology.

As Asia’s tropical storm season arrives, grounded airplanes at risk of damage

Jun 3, 2020

Major airports in storm-vulnerable regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and India have been effectively turned into giant parking lots as COVID-19 travel restrictions choke demand.

“If you have got those aircraft on the ground, you can imagine to get them back up and running in a short space of time is no easy thing,” said Gary Moran, head of Asia aviation at insurance broker Aon. “The challenge is you can have a typhoon or hurricane coming and there are going to be a lot of aircraft that aren’t going to be able to be moved in time.”

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