Walt Disney to launch streaming service in India on Friday
FILE PHOTO: A man looks at his phone as he passes by a screen advertising Walt Disney’s streaming service Disney+ in New York City, U.S., November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) will launch its Disney+ service in India on April 3, the company said on Tuesday, intensifying […]
China could see near-zero growth in 2020
Published on : 03/31/2020 – 10:06 At a time when the epidemic seems to be stabilizing, China is trying to get its economy back on track, stopped for more than three months now. The aim is to minimize the consequences of the coronavirus on the world’s second economic power. With our special correspondent in Zhengzhou, […]
Venezuela will apply traditional Chinese medicine to patients with COVID-19
Illustrative photo of the Leopoldo Manrique Terrero hospital in Caracas. Mar 19, 2020. REUTERS / Angus Berwick CARACAS, Mar 30 (Reuters) – The Chinese government this week sent supplies and specialists to Venezuela and included an expert in traditional medicine as part of the aid program to deal with the coronavirus, said the executive vice […]
doubts are growing on the victim count
Published on : 03/30/2020 – 11:56 In question, the difficulties in establishing the number of victims without testing the entire population, as is the case in Europe or the United States. A problem also encountered in China. The images in recent days of long queues of residents picking up the ashes of their relatives missing […]
The United States could become the next epicenter of the coronavirus, says WHO
GENEVA / TOKYO (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which eventually forced reluctant organizers to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Britain joined the ranks of bloc countries to try to detain the virus, and data showed that commercial activity […]
The Tokyo 2020 postponement decision “within a few days”, sources said
ATHENS / TOKYO (Reuters) – The final decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic will be made in the next few days, sources inside the Olympic movement reported to Reuters on Tuesday, while the United States joined together for a delay. With increasing pressure every day, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and […]
UPDATE 1-Indonesia says that it may be necessary to exceed 3% of the budget deficit limit to cover the virus response
(Adds comments from the central bank governor) JAKARTA, March 24 (Reuters) – The Indonesian government may need space for its budget deficit to overcome the legal limit of 3% as the country fights the spread of the coronavirus and its economic impact, the deputy minister said on Tuesday. of finance Suahasil Nazara. He told an […]
New Zealand: Coronavirus cases increase by almost 50% in one day as the blockade approaches World news
Just over 24 hours before New Zealand entered full blockade, 40 new coronavirus cases were confirmed, bringing the country’s total to 155. Four of the cases were confirmed as contracts through community transmission and six people were in hospital, but none in intensive care, said the director-general of health, dr. Ashley Bloomfield. The increase in […]
Rebound in Asian equities, the Fed places infinite QE against economic reality
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian equities rebounded sharply on Tuesday as the US Federal Reserve’s promise of bottomless dollar funding eased painful tensions in the financial markets, although it could not mitigate the immediate economic blow of the coronavirus. PHOTO FILE: a currency trader works in front of electronic cards showing the composite stock price index […]
Exclusive: Elite hackers target WHO as spikes in coronavirus cyber attacks
WASHINGTON / LONDON (Reuters) – Elite hackers attempted to join the World Health Organization earlier this month, according to Reuters sources, part of what a senior agency official said was an increase. more than double the cyber attacks. Traffic passes through the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Americas during the coronavirus epidemic […]