Pandemic

COVID-19 has underscored the crucial need for pandemic responses to include social protection measures that reach and benefit marginalized populations. As the pandemic swept across western and central Africa in early 2020, the region was already grappling with socioeconomic distress and humanitarian crises. Social restrictions imposed to contain the pandemic…

StackCommerce Video conferencing apps kept us productive through the pandemic. And though there’s been an effort of late to return to in-person meetings, most analysts believe that the conference call is here to stay. Want to make yourself look as professional as possible during your next video call? Then you might…

    TORONTO, ON, October 28, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- As businesses typically ramp up for the holidays, retailers hold out hopes for a recovery that appears to be more distant than immediate. The short challenges are to stay in business. Retailers have limited options after combating business closures and health restrictions. Only…

The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse than that caused by the pandemic, according to the chairman of the UK fiscal watchdog. Richard Hughes said the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had assumed leaving the EU would “reduce our long run GDP by around 4%”, adding…

Home » Medicine » COVID-19 About 1957 Flu Pandemic Level Ranking Looking at a list of pandemics COVID-19 is ranking at about the percent of global population loss (0.07-0.25%) at about the level of the 1957 flu (0.03-0.1%). World population is now over three times larger so instead of 1.1-4.0…

By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper , Jason Arunn Murugesu and Layal Liverpool People queue outside a covid-19 vaccination hub in Manchester, UK. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 26…

Residents in the Australian state of Victoria face prison time or massive fines of up to AU$90,000 (US$67,570) if they are deemed to have failed to comply with government-mandated health orders and posed a risk to the health of others, according to a new Bill rushed into the state’s Parliament…

CALGARY, Alberta/NEW YORK—Demand has jumped for relatively cheap Canadian natural gas, driving exports to the United States to three-year highs and prompting producers in Canada to boost capital spending and drilling activity. Global natural gas prices have hit multi-year highs as world economies recover from last year’s slowdown during the…

SASCHA WIL­SON sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt With much ex­cite­ment and fan­fare, the Anand Low Price Group opened a new su­per­mar­ket at Char­lie King Junc­tion in Fyz­abad yes­ter­day. It’s the third out­let to be opened by the group since the pan­dem­ic hit Trinidad and To­ba­go. Di­rec­tor Chelsea Ram­nar­ine Singh said they viewed the pan­dem­ic…

Ira Math­ur www.iras­room.org iras­room@gmail.com At this rate, Christ­mas in T&T, some 2,000 peo­ple will be dead of COVID-19 since the start of the virus. The fig­ure up to Thurs­day was 1,629. Un­til 90 per cent of us are ei­ther vac­ci­nat­ed or have got­ten COVID, the pan­dem­ic is here to stay.…