"But I would say the hidden risk - your viewers can see the ambulances at the hospitals - that doesn't take into account the huge number of patients that are waiting for an ambulance that can't get to them." Professor Whitty's warning in new COVID-19 ad While there "does not app...
Commodity prices have reacted strongly to the crisis, reflecting changes in supply and demand due to policy measures to limit contagion. Commodity-dependent developing countries are therefore confronted with an unprecedented combination of shocks. However, the crisis has also exposed structural ...
In fact, no aspect of our lives is immune to the "unprecedented crisis". The way to tackle the crisis is to take restrictive measures until it is over. Putting people's lives first, China has been implementing a dynamic zero-COVID policy. The country has managed the coronavirus outbreak e...
There is a better option for this unprecedented situation. Amid a national crisis, the unspent premiums generating these windfalls represent an opportunity to urgently fight the pandemic, as well as buffer the economic shock of the recession today. Thus far, insurers have handled their financial goo...
The unprecedented shutdown of businesses in specific industries, social distancing guidelines, and overall insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the temporary halt of major parts of the economy in many countries in 2020, with dire consequences for these economies (Milani 2021). The...
Since 2020, COVID-19 has brought unprecedented crisis to refugees across the world and also posed severe challenges in refugee protection, she said. "China will continue to uphold the authority of multilateral mechanism with the United Nations at its core and firmly support UNHCR and other multila...
COVID-19 Crisis: More Severe Economic Fallout than Anticipated COVID-19危机:经济影响比预期更为严重 Economic data available at the time of the April 2020 WEO forecast indicated an unprecedented decline in global activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data releases since then suggest even deeper ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented situation, with incalculable health, social, and economic consequences. At the start of the outbreak, the financial markets collapsed, although not all sectors suffered equally. The gaming and eSportsindustryis one of those that has suffered the ...
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented challenges for the medtech sector. Companies should consider stress-testing operating models to strengthen crisis resilience and the longer-term path to recovery. (PDF-573 KB)COVID-19 has presented a humanitarian crisis like no other, with nearly two million infe...
In announcing the measures, the apex bank acknowledged that COVID-19 was already having a significant adverse effect for both the global and Nigerian economies and had led to unprecedented disruption in the global supply chains. Amongst others, COVID-19 impacted negatively on the economy leading ...