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Apple is donating 10 million protective face masks to help fight the coronavirus pandemic Elon Musk

Apple is donating 10 million protective face masks to help fight the coronavirus pandemic

Apple CEO Tim Cook.Getty/Stephen LamApple is donating 10 million protective face masks to COVID-19 relief efforts in the US, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Twitter on Wednesday.The company is also donating millions of masks to regions in Europe that have been deeply impacted by the pandemic.Cook's comments come after…
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March 25, 2020
Countries Are Starting to Hoard Food, Threatening Global Trade Protectionism

Countries Are Starting to Hoard Food, Threatening Global Trade

Countries Starting to Hoard Food, Threatening Global Trade(Bloomberg) --It’s not just grocery shoppers who are hoarding pantry staples. Some governments are moving to secure domestic food supplies during the conoravirus pandemic.Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest shippers of wheat flour, banned exports of that product along with others, including carrots,…
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March 25, 2020
China censored people who spoke out about the coronavirus, but there’s reason to believe the country’s numbers are still trustworthy Xi Jinping

China censored people who spoke out about the coronavirus, but there’s reason to believe the country’s numbers are still trustworthy

As the coronavirus has spread around the world, people have looked to data — case counts, death tolls, tallies of people tested — to help predict the outbreak's trajectory, plan responses, and make policy decisions.Because China was initially secretive during the SARS outbreak and censored some whistleblowers and citizen journalists as…
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March 24, 2020
The U.S. Government Has Mobilized Private Companies to Face Crises Before. Here’s What to Know Cold War

The U.S. Government Has Mobilized Private Companies to Face Crises Before. Here’s What to Know

About a week after President Trump announced on March 18 that he was invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the Trump Administration would actually use the law “for the first time”…
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March 24, 2020
Volvo’s Polestar begins production of the all-electric Polestar 2 in China Geely

Volvo’s Polestar begins production of the all-electric Polestar 2 in China

Polestar has started production of its all-electric Polestar 2 vehicle at a plant in China amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended the automotive industry and triggered a wave of factory closures throughout the world.The start of Polestar 2 production is a milestone for Volvo Car Group's standalone electric performance…
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March 24, 2020