With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm. HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF THE SAN JOSÉ HOSPITAL MOBILE UNIT TREAT VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS AT A CLOSED SCHOOL IN MAICAO, LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA. | BLOOMBERG/NICOLO FILIPPO ROSSO One afternoon a couple months…
Analysis by free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs of recently released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveals that over 230,000 small businesses are expected to close and 470,000 jobs will be permanently destroyed once COVID-19 support measures are inevitably removed. Approximately 10% of small businesses expect to cease operating once government…
A pair of reports from Department of Agriculture economists project a drop in American grain and oilseed production and overseas stocks on hand, prolonging a bump in commodity prices. The forecasts — monthly Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports — also project decreased average yields on farms across the country. The drop in corn ending…
As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erode huge gains against much more devastating infections, I look for silver linings. All year, COVID-19 has commandeered the world’s attention. It is as if no other disease has ever been more important, more contagious or more deadly. I founded a non-profit research institute in 2008; we established the…
At least three people have been killed by flooding on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to authorities and local media. In Bitti, a town in the province of Nuoro, streets were turned into rivers of mud that covered cars and flooded cellars. “The situation in Bitti has been particularly dramatic,” regional environment councillor Gianni…
A couple pass coronavirus advice and a Christmas tree in Covent Garden in London on Monday. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends Wednesday. Photo by Neil Hall/EPA-EFE Nov. 29 (UPI) — Coronavirus deaths have been surging throughout Europe but cases have…
Significant magnitude 6.5 earthquake 172 km northwest of Talca, Chile A shallow magnitude 6.5 earthquake was reported early evening near the town of Constitución, Chile. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Saturday 21 November 2020 at 7.54 pm local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. Shallow…
Tokyo, Nov. 22 (Jiji Press)–A strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.8 hit eastern Japan on Sunday evening. The quake, which occurred off the Pacific coast of Ibaraki Prefecture around 7:06 p.m. (10:06 a.m. GMT), measured lower 5 in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According…
The death toll from Hurricane Iota continues to rise after the storm hammered a part of Central America that was recently battered by Hurricane Eta. Iota left a trail of devastation in its wake as it tore across parts of Nicaragua and Honduras earlier this week. The storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Nicaragua’s northeastern coast late Monday,…