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WATCH Russian Army deliver medical aid at airbase near Rome as Moscow rallies to help coronavirus-ravaged Italy

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

Russian personnel swiftly airlifted trucks full of medical equipment to Italy, the nation with the highest death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic. … Read More >WATCH Russian Army deliver medical aid at airbase near Rome as Moscow rallies to help coronavirus-ravaged Italy

Russia

Moscow acted effectively on Covid-19 long before it was classed as ‘pandemic’ – Russian WHO bureau chief to RT

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

Russia’s approach to the spread of Covid-19 has been quite effective, partially because it began taking preventive measures long before the World Health Organization labeled it a pandemic, the WHO’s chief in Moscow has told RT. … Read More >Moscow acted effectively on Covid-19 long before it was classed as ‘pandemic’ – Russian WHO bureau chief to RT

Middle East

War-ravaged Syria suffers its FIRST case of Covid-19 – state media

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

Syria’s health minister has confirmed that the first case of coronavirus, which has already reached pandemic levels, has been reported in the country. … Read More >War-ravaged Syria suffers its FIRST case of Covid-19 – state media

World

Team Canada Not Going to Tokyo Olympics Amid Coronavirus Fears

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

Canada will not be sending its athletes to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics over coronavirus fears and is calling for a one-year postponement of the Games, Team Canada said in a statement. … Read More >Team Canada Not Going to Tokyo Olympics Amid Coronavirus Fears

USA

‘I Want to Get Facts Out’: US Top Disease Expert Explains Why He Contradicts Trump on Coronavirus

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

The development comes after Trump was criticized after he touted an anti-malaria drug, which has not yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, as a cure for COVID-19. … Read More >‘I Want to Get Facts Out’: US Top Disease Expert Explains Why He Contradicts Trump on Coronavirus

Latin America

Bolivia Postpones Presidential Election for Indefinite Period Over Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

Bolivia has postponed its presidential election initially scheduled for 3 May for an indefinite period of time over the new coronavirus pandemic, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. … Read More >Bolivia Postpones Presidential Election for Indefinite Period Over Coronavirus Pandemic

Middle East

Danger to Democracy or Tool to Fight Misinformation? Attorney Discusses Mass Surveillance in Israel

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

It’s been several days since Israel began using a mass surveillance system – initially developed by the country’s internal secret service (Shin Bet) … Read More >Danger to Democracy or Tool to Fight Misinformation? Attorney Discusses Mass Surveillance in Israel

Russia

Moscow metro ‘will operate in ANY scenario, it cannot stop’, mayor says amid coronavirus speculation

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020By Editor

Despite the Covid-19 outbreak, Moscow authorities will not shut the city’s most used public transit system, the metro. That’s according to the mayor who dismissed rumors to the contrary as “nonsense and stupidity.” … Read More >Moscow metro ‘will operate in ANY scenario, it cannot stop’, mayor says amid coronavirus speculation

World

An Analysis of the Covid-19 Response: Weighing up the Threat From the Virus, and the Threat From the Reaction

Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020By Editor

Would you consider the shutting down of an entire national economy for a disease such as the Black Death, which between 1347-1351 killed an estimated 60 percent of the population in the areas where it spread, to be a proportionate response? What about for a virus which carries — at the very most (see below) — a mortality rate of 1.4 percent for those who contract it? … Read More >An Analysis of the Covid-19 Response: Weighing up the Threat From the Virus, and the Threat From the Reaction

Business

US debt crisis wasn’t supposed to happen until at least 2035. Covid-19 is rapidly pushing it closer

Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020By Editor

The overall price tag of the fiscal stimulus package in the US could be around one trillion dollars. With record budget deficits and its national debt at $23 trillion, is the US hastening toward a fiscal reckoning? … Read More >US debt crisis wasn’t supposed to happen until at least 2035. Covid-19 is rapidly pushing it closer

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