Pandemic

Houston-Based Breakfast Franchise Continues to Grow Successfully Amid Pandemic Houston, TX  (RestaurantNews.com)  The Toasted Yolk, the fast-growing, full-service dining concept that serves high-quality breakfast and lunch fare alongside boozy brunch cocktails, finished 2020 strong with a weekly double-digit increase in sales over 2019 for the last quarter of the year.…

PH now has 23K cell sites, still behind in ASEAN While local telcos have stepped up the rollout of cell sites nationwide, the numbers have not come up to a third of the Philippines’ neighbors in the region. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)’s latest report to Malacanang showed that the…

No results matched your search Economy9 hours ago (Jan 21, 2021 02:20PM ET) © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A construction dump truck sits unattended outside Trump International Hotel in Washington By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of former President Donald Trump's most high profile hospitality assets took a revenue hit…

UK marketing budgets continued their sharp decline in the fourth quarter as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the economy. Advertising spend suffered a record drop last year, with the sharpest fall reported in the wake of the first nationwide lockdown in the second quarter. Read more: Cinema…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican senators in Missouri on Wednesday debated ways to check health officials’ power in response to their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. One proposal would ensure there are no government-imposed occupancy limits on churches and other places of worship during public health emergencies. Another bill…

ROME—Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte survived a confidence vote in the country’s Senate but fell short of an outright majority, weakening his government as it searches for a way to tame the Covid-19 pandemic and revive the economy. The vote in the Senate was triggered by the decision of a…

The World Health Organization was poorly prepared to prevent a disease like Covid-19 from becoming a pandemic, and wasn’t adapted for a globalized era of easy travel and extensive trade, an international panel said. Years of warnings that the United Nations agency’s international system wasn’t ready for a respiratory pandemic…

As refrigerated trucks arrive at states across the country, funeral homes say they are turning families away.  As of mid-January, Los Angeles County had nearly 1 million cases of COVID-19 and of those, more than 13,000 had died.  The deaths are taking a toll on the healthcare system and funeral…

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The protesters gathered on a square in front of the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum art galleries, carrying signs reading “Freedom: stop this siege” and chanting “What do we want? Freedom!”. None wore masks, which are not mandatory, and few respected social distancing rules, news agency Reuters reported. Shocking footage…