Saudi Arabia – the world’s largest oil exporter – is another country that is currently succumbing to the economic downturn caused by COVID-19. The kingdom, in which money seemingly has been almost no object for decades, needs to implement cutbacks...
The US intelligence community has ruled out that the coronavirus was generated in a Chinese laboratory. The agencies thus contradict the notion that COVID-19 was developed as a biological weapon and released by accident. US Intelligence to Trump: You’re Wrong...
China’s crude oil purchases from Russia rose over 30 percent in March compared to the previous year as Saudi Arabia’s commodity imports shrank, according to Chinese customs data. The mainland’s crude oil purchase increased 4.5 percent year on year to...
The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will be unprecedented. Even if the American and global economy manages to achieve some stabilization post-COVID-19 through central bank stimulus packages and countermeasures, many small and medium-sized businesses will not survive. In addition...
Sixty days have gone by since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Italy. That was on February 20, a stumbling block on our calendar, a watershed date that reminds us of the moment when the extraordinary first became...
In a somber tone, Boris Johnson warned the British people of the tragedy to come. Many more would lose their loved ones, he said. Many more would die. The date was March 12, 2020. It was a whole two months...
Sweden’s controversial pandemic-fighting strategy is beginning to yield results, according to its top epidemiologist. Anders Tegnell, the lead architect of Sweden’s “trust-based” pandemic-fighting strategy said that confirmed cases and deaths in the country are beginning to stabilize. ‘The Situation is...
If you ask John M. Barry, bestseller author of The Great Influenza: the Deadliest Plague in History, why he decided, years ago, to write about the specific topic of the 1918 Spanish flu, he answers: “Things happen. Oddly enough, I...
David Quammen predicted everything. In his book the Spillover, published in Italy by Adelphi, the American writer analyzed the possibility that a new virus could turn the world upside down. Quammen called this event “the Next Big One.” After the...
Covid-19 has impacted corners of our world, but not all countries have faced it the same way. The Republic of Korea (ROK) – with its unique economic situation and history – took strong steps to stop the spread of the...
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