Economy & Business
Virus may spark ‘devastating’ global condom shortage
A global condom shortage is looming as the coronavirus pandemic shutters factories and disrupts supply chains, the world’s top maker of the ...Denmark to reopen day cares, schools on April 15
Denmark plans to reopen day care centres and schools on April 15 as a first step to gradually relax a three-week lockdown ...Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel warns on EU’s future as US braces for worst of virus
European leaders battling a deadly coronavirus outbreak are facing the “biggest test” to their union, Germany’s leader said Monday, as the United ...European shares jump as deaths in continent slow
European shares rebounded on Monday as a slowdown in coronavirus deaths in France and Italy raised hopes that sweeping lockdowns were starting ...Austria plans to start reopening shops from next week
Austria plans to reopen smaller shops from next week in its first step to loosen a lockdown that has slowed the spread ...Virus patients in Spain get five-star hotel quarantine
An ambulance driver wearing a white protective gown enters a Barcelona hotel and announces the arrival of three new “customers” — a ...Global virus cases top a million, deaths surpass 50,000
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and fatalities have topped 50,000 as the United ...Google to publish user location data to help govts tackle virus
Google says it will publish users’ location data around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social ...Global virus cases near million as US baby dies
Confirmed coronavirus infections around the world approached one million Thursday as the pandemic spread at a “near-exponential” rate, with a six-week-old baby ...Spain sheds nearly 900,000 jobs since coronavirus lockdown
Spain has shed close to 900,000 jobs, more than half of them temporary, since it went into lockdown in mid-March to fight ...














