Covid-19

With Ireland set to move to Phase 2 of the roadmap for easing Covid-19 restrictions on Monday, 8 June, Moira Hannon explores what the future might look like in Ireland. Coronavirus has cost more than 1,600 lives, crashed the economy and had a huge societal impact - from shutting children out of schools to isolating over 70s…

Boats navigate the still largely empty canals of Venice, which began to emerge from Italy's nationwide COVID-19 lockdown late last month. Eric Reguly/The Globe and Mail The director of Venice’s Gallerie dell’Accademia, Giulio Manieri Elia, is my guide as we wander through hall after hall viewing some of the finest art produced by the city’s…

Seniors facing higher costs for groceries, transportation and prescriptions due to COVID-19 can expect emergency aid payments of up to $500 on July 6.Seniors can expect emergency aid to offset increased living costs due to COVID-19 to start being distributed July 6. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)Seniors facing higher costs for groceries, transportation and prescriptions due to…

Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week, according to data from two app store intelligence firms, Apptopia and Sensor Tower. While the firms’ exact findings differed in terms of the total number of new downloads or when records were broken, the…

Next week’s phase of lockdown easing will finally see the stalled property market get back to business. Buyers and sellers who have been stuck in a holding pattern since mid-March will from Monday resume marketing, viewing, valuing and surveying properties. But the new guidelines for safely accessing properties and interacting with agents mean the property…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits likely dropped below 2 million last week for the first time since mid-March, but remains astonishingly high as companies adjust to an environment that has been significantly changed by COVID-19. FILE PHOTO: People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment…

A health worker collecting a sample for COVID-19 testing, in Bengaluru. File   | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR States such as Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan record significant increase in cases In the past two weeks, 90,986 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in India. Four States - Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Gujarat…

Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina. (Frennie Shivambu, Gallo Images, file) There is a R1.2 billion revenue shortfall projected for the Ekurhuleni municipality amid the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes at the same time as bad debts are expected to increase. Parliament was told on Wednesday that funds are expected to dry up soon. The City of Ekurhuleni has projected…

Updated / Wednesday, 3 Jun 2020 18:33 Of 430 laboratory confirmed Covid cases in disability residential centres, 57% were staff and 43% were residents There have been 14 confirmed deaths linked to Covid-19 among people with disabilities in residential settings. The figure was outlined at a meeting between representatives of Inclusion Ireland - which is…

CES 2020 barely made it in under the wire, before COVID-19 gripped the world. The following month, Barcelona’s MWC was ultimately shut down, as the pandemic began to move across Europe. That was the first of many dominoes to fall, as events were either taken online or canceled altogether. Seems CES won’t miss a beat,…