Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Ukrainian designer equips doctors for battling coronavirus
By Sergei Karazy KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian fashion designer Ivan Frolov has postponed work on his new collection and is making coveralls for doctors to meet a shortage of protective clothing during t...
Apr 03, 2020
Silver lining? Russia's Cossacks don modified masks against coronavirus
By Maria Vasilyeva MOSCOW (Reuters) - Cossacks and police officers enforcing the coronavirus lockdown in Russia's western city of Kaliningrad have donned modified face masks that local scientists say ...
Apr 03, 2020
U.S. small banks have processed more than 700 small business relief loans for $2.5 million: Mnuchin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that community banks have processed hundreds of small business loans aimed at shoring up the economy amid the global corona...
Apr 03, 2020
3M to increase production of face masks after Trump order
(Reuters) - 3M Co said on Friday it would continue to increase the production of respirators, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was invoking the Defense Production Act to get the company ...
Apr 03, 2020
Swiss ease access to COVID-19 treatments with exceptional decree
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland on Friday sought to speed access to drugs that could be used against coronavirus-caused COVID-19 disease with an order that allows them to be deployed in hospitals befor...
Apr 03, 2020
Dutch coronavirus deaths rise to 1,487: health authorities
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands announced a further 148 deaths linked to the coronavirus on Friday, bringing the country's total to 1,487. It also confirmed 1,026 new coronavirus cases, taking t...
Apr 03, 2020
ADB cuts 2020 growth forecast for South Caucasus countries
By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has slashed its 2020 economic growth forecasts for the South Caucasus countries as they are hit by the spread of the new coron...
Apr 03, 2020
Bolsonaro says Brazil cannot take months of isolation
BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that Brazilian society will not be able to stand two or three months of shutdowns to fight the new coronavirus, denouncing social-distancin...
Apr 03, 2020
Europe's north-south lockdown divide revealed by Google data
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy and Spain, the two European countries hardest hit by the new coronavirus, have enforced the most drastic lockdowns to curb the pandemic but one country, Swe...
Apr 03, 2020
Chechnya becomes first Russian region to impose coronavirus curfew
By Polina Nikolskaya and Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - The southern Russian region of Chechnya on Friday became the first to introduce a night curfew to try to prevent the spread of the coronaviru...
Apr 03, 2020
