MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday rolled out a drug approved to treat patients suffering from the novel coronavirus, its state financial backer said, as the number of infections there surpassed half a million.
The first deliveries of the new antiviral drug, registered under the name Avifavir, were made to...
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Simon Jessop
ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - As stock markets roar back from the coronavirus-led rout, advisers to the world's wealthy are urging them to hold more gold, questioning the strength of the rally and the long-term impact of global central banks' cash splurge.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic,...
By Victoria Klesty and Anna Ringstrom
OSLO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Norwegian Air and SAS are adding more flights to their schedules from July onwards as demand begins to recover following the COVID-19 pandemic, the two Nordic carriers said on Tuesday.
SAS will use 40 of its aircraft in July, up from 30...
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Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:
Most infectious at the start
Studies show people with the coronavirus are most infectious just at the point when they first begin to feel unwell, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Tuesday.
Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO’s top emergencies expert, said...
Francesco Guarascio
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The market for COVID-19 antibody tests is red-hot. It has ballooned in a matter of months as hundreds of products flood the world for people who want to find out whether they’ve already had the virus.
The problem is, some of them don’t work properly.
As a...
Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Layoffs in the United States are abating, but millions who lost their jobs because of COVID-19 continue to draw unemployment benefits, suggesting the labor market could take years to heal from the pandemic even as businesses resume hiring workers.
The weekly jobless claims report from the...
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has little choice but to stick with his Phase 1 China trade deal despite his anger at Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic, new Hong Kong security rules, and dwindling hopes China can meet U.S. goods purchase targets, people...
Vanessa Friedman (The New York Times)
Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the menswear designer of Louis Vuitton, is the kind of fashion figure that seems to demand comparison.
Almost every profile contains one buried somewhere in the text. He is “the Andy Warhol for our times” (The Guardian), he...
By Olesya Astakhova
MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) - Russia's oil and gas condensate production fell to 9.42 million barrels per day (bpd) during May 1 to 19 as a global deal on reducing output took effect, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters.
The deal on curbing crude output reached...
By Ludwig Burger
May 22 (Reuters) - Oxford University and AstraZeneca are recruiting around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a day after receiving U.S. backing worth up to $1.2 billion.
Institutions across Britain had begun enrolling up to 10,260 adults and children to...
