After drawing up a clear battle plan against inflation, the authorities of the Federal Reserve (Fed) from U.S now they must deal with new signs that the COVID-19 is slowing the economy, as well as with markets poised to tighten financial conditions faster than the central bank forecasts. The combination of economic data pushing in […]
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After a year of Biden, what about immigration reform?
During his electoral campaign in 2019, President Joe Biden promised he would fight to change immigration laws and offer a path to US citizenship for millions of immigrants living illegally in U.S. His tone was very different from that of his predecessor Donald Trump, who imposed measures to stop the arrival of immigrants and to […]
WTO fears a new “technonationalism” after the global chip crisis
The global chip shortage brought on by the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, which affected many sectors, has generated plans to relocate the semiconductor industry, today dominated by Asia, to the United States and Europe, although the World Trade Organization (WTO) he fears that a new “techno-nationalism” will be born with it. This was hinted at by […]
Agreement to give Merck’s anti-COVID pill to 105 low-income countries
Updated on 01/20/2022 07:55 am Several dozen generic drug manufacturers signed an agreement this Thursday with the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), an organization supported by the UN, to facilitate access for 105 countries with few resources to the pill against COVID-19 from the American pharmaceutical group. Merck. “It is a crucial step towards universal access […]
More than three million daily cases of COVID-19 in the world
The world registered an average of more than 3 million daily cases of COVID-19 between January 13 and 19, a figure that has increased fivefold since the discovery of the omicron variant in late November, according to an AFP tally. In the last seven days, an average of 3,095,971 daily cases were registered, an increase […]
PAHO: record COVID-19 infections, but deaths do not skyrocket in the Americas
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) stated that he expects omicron to become the predominant variable in the coming weeks COVID-19 in the Americas, where coronavirus cases have registered record levels in recent days. PAHO added that, although health systems face challenges with an increase in hospitalizations, vaccination has helped prevent deaths from coronavirus from […]
Coronavirus spreads like never before in America, PAHO warns
Updated on 01/19/2022 02:54 pm COVID-19 infections are reaching new peaks in the Americas, with 7.2 million new cases and more than 15,000 deaths related to the disease in the last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) noted. “The virus is spreading more actively than ever”, said the director of PAHO, Carissa Etiennein an […]
MTPE clarifies that Minister Chávez is not infected with COVID-19
The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) clarified this Wednesday, January 19, that the head of the sector, Betssy Chávez, is not infected by the COVID-19, as reported by some media outlets. Through an announcement, the press team of the MTPE He reported that Chávez Chino “continues with his usual agenda, which includes work […]
The omicron variant gains ground and already concentrates 72% of global cases
Updated on 01/19/2022 07:25 am The omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, discovered in early November, is already present in 71.9% of the cases analyzed in the last 30 days by the global network of GISAID laboratories, the weekly epidemiological report of the World Health Organization (WHO). Of the 405,000 specimens collected, the […]
With omicron, the world economy sees the opportunity to overcome COVID-19
Governments around the world are relaxing quarantine rules, reviewing controls by the coronavirus and reducing emergency aid from the time of the pandemic, in an attempt to return their economies to a certain normality. The measures, motivated by the less seriousness of the omicron variant and the need to keep workers employed and the global […]