Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK will have to wait for excess death statistics for clearer COVID-19 picture: health official
LONDON (Reuters) - Figures for the number of excess deaths in Britain as a result of the coronavirus crisis will provide a clearer picture of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but might not be avail...
Apr 29, 2020
Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 tweets
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they ca...
Apr 29, 2020
Big insurers face fresh coronavirus claim threat from UK hospitality sector
By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) - Top insurers such as AXA , RSA , QBE and Zurich face a potential multi-million pound lawsuit from British pubs, hotels, restaurants and leisure gr...
Apr 29, 2020
Trump, Fauci see hope with Gilead’s drug in coronavirus fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday greeted as good news reports that a Gilead Sciences Inc experimental antiviral drug might help fight the coronavirus, and infectious dis...
Apr 29, 2020
U.S. nonprofits scramble for loans as need jumps, funds disappear
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Domestic violence incidents are surging during coronavirus lockdowns, just as the largest U.S. network providing emergency housing for abused women and their ch...
Apr 29, 2020
U.S. consumer groups urge lawmakers against shielding businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits
By Tom Hals and Alison Frankel (Reuters) - U.S. consumer advocates are urging Congress to resist growing demands by companies for protections from coronavirus-related lawsuits as states start to ease ...
Apr 29, 2020
Switzerland’s Falcon mulls exit from private banking, other options
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss wealth manager Falcon Private Bank is considering withdrawing from private banking as well as other options, it said on Wednesday, days after sources told Reuters the bank cou...
Apr 29, 2020
Pompeo urges end to overflight rights for Iran airline flying to Venezuela
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called on countries to deny overflight rights to Mahan Air, an Iranian airline under U.S. sanctions, which he...
Apr 29, 2020
‘Test and trace’ has worked for us, Ghana’s president says
PARIS (Reuters) - A rigorous programme of testing for coronavirus and tracing the contacts of those found positive has helped Ghana avoid an explosion in cases that could have overwhelmed its health s...
Apr 29, 2020
German tourist sector dismayed as Berlin extends travel warning
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany might be easing some COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, but the government tamped down any hopes in the tourism sector that it might relax holiday guidance when it extended its...
Apr 29, 2020
