coronavirus

Israeli intelligence suspects that the horrendous coronavirus is a runaway Chinese biological weapons virus. The Wuhan Coronavirus which has shocked the world seems to have traced its origins.The brother of the virus that caused the SARS epidemic also originated not far from ‘his brother’. Reporting from the Washington Times, Radio Free Asia this week has …

In October, 2019 Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who, together with his wife, runs the richest, most powerful foundation in the world, co-organised a simulation exercise on a worldwide corona epidemic. In October, 2019 Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who, together with his wife, runs the richest and most powerful foundation in the world, co-organised a simulation …

Nearly half of high-income New York City residents have considered moving away from the city in the last four months, according to a Manhattan Institute/Siena College poll released Wednesday. The coronavirus pandemic has brought much of city life to a standstill, and many residents with the means to do so have left New York to …

JPMorgan Chase will not pay for junior sales and trading staff to take an Uber to work, reversing actions the bank took after the COVID-19 pandemic to help staff feel comfortable about commuting to work, Bloomberg News reported. The change was communicated by managers last week, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of …

The disastrous debut of Warner Bros’ spy thriller “Tenet” at movie theaters has Hollywood studios fingering the panic button.  “Tenet” — a $200 million Christopher Nolan production which has amassed less than $30 million in ticket sales since it hit US theaters on Sept. 3 — has given Tinseltown a wakeup call, with studios grappling …

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates pinned near zero on Wednesday and promised to keep them there until inflation is on track to “moderately exceed” the US central bank’s 2 percent inflation target “for some time.” The change in guidance is part of a monetary policy shift announced by the Fed last month that is …

The coronavirus pandemic may not damage the global economy as badly as previously feared, an influential group says. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday that it now expects worldwide gross domestic product — a key measure of economic health — to drop by 4.5 percent this year, down from its June forecast …

US retail sales climbed less than expected last month, another signal that the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has slowed. Retailers and food-service merchants raked in $537.5 billion in August, a modest 0.6 percent increase from the prior month that came in below experts’ estimates for a 1 percent rise, the US Census Bureau …

There will be a 2020 Big Ten football season after all. The Big Ten announced Wednesday morning the return of its fall football season, reversing a previous decision to cancel the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league’s plan will include daily rapid testing and would begin play the weekend of Oct. 23-24, …

Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher is calling “f–king bulls–t” on the coronavirus pandemic. The 53-year-old said he refuses to wear a mask inside stores and on public transportation because he feels the rules are infringing on his rights. “There are too many civil liberties being taken away from us now,” he said, according to the …