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COVID-19 Crisis

How South-South cooperation can support economic recovery

Richard Kozul-Wright :The COVID-19 crisis is stress testing the capacity of governance arrangements to deal with unexpected shocks.Results point to considerable variation at the national level, but it’s difficult to give anything above a...

Covid Snippets

60,000 doses of avifavir to be delivered in June The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the ChemRar Group are to deliver the doses of avifavir, approved in Russia as a COVID-19 therapeutic, to...

Covid Snippets

No quick return to ‘normal’ food habits after Covid-19, survey suggests A consumer survey, conducted by Leatherhead Food Research, has revealed that the majority of UK consumers have changed their food and drink shopping...

Convalescent plasma therapy shown to be safe and effective

Scientists reveal 76 percent of critically ill trial participants treated with convalescent plasma are recovering, with almost half now discharged from hospital.bags of blood plasma hanging for infusionThe largest COVID-19 convalescent plasma transfusion trial...

Symptoms and risks of Covid infection

Health Desk :Countries around the world are scrambling to halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.As of June 4, more than 386,000 people worldwide have died of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused...

Moody’s Analytics Launches Tool for Covid-19

Moody’s Analytics has launched Coronavirus Pulse, a machine learning-enabled tool for gauging COVID-19 news sentiment. This tool allows market participants to search for real-time news coverage, see COVID-19-related news stories about a chosen financial...

Covid Snippets

Gaza mosques, nursery schools reopen Mosques reopen for daily prayers and children return to nursery schools as restrictions ease in Gaza Strip.Kate Mayberry & Elizabeth Melimopoulos Mosques have reopened for daily prayers in the...