GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) should soon get results from clinical trials it is conducting of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients, its Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. “Nearly 5,500 patients in 39 countries have so far been recruited into the Solidarity trial,” he told a […]
By Nick Brown (Reuters) – U.S. residents will begin receiving census forms in the mail as early as Thursday as the federal government kicks off its once-a-decade count of the population, a gargantuan effort crucial to guiding U.S. political and economic policy but which experts fear will be complicated by the spread of coronavirus. The […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers are set to endorse a loosening of rules to allow banks to keep credit flowing to the economy as the coronavirus epidemic stifles business activity across the bloc. “It is crucial that banks continue financing households and corporates, including Small and Medium sized Enterprises experiencing temporary difficulties amid […]
