State spending on coronavirus. Questions about how it΄s allocated
coronavirus
23 Jul 2020
/ 19:37
Italy΄s government approved $28.93 billion of extra spending late on Wednesday, the third major cash injection since the coronavirus outbreak.
- A Swiss health department has warned that plastic face shields alone do not offer protection against COVID-19, after an outbreak among wearers at a Graubünden hotel. Those who wore face masks as opposed to plastic shields have not tested positive.
- France will help state-owned railway company SNCF survive the coronavirus crisis by providing several billion dollars through a capital hike or an additional debt buy-back, said transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
- France expects economic growth of 8 percent for 2021, finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday, with the government wanting economic activity to return to pre-crisis levels from 2022.
- Eurozone bond yields held near multi-month lows on Thursday, with demand for fixed income supported by U.S.-China tensions and hopes the bloc will bounce back quickly from the impact of COVID-19 given this week's recovery fund deal.
-The European Union has granted Honduras $93 million in aid to help the impoverished Central American nation's health system cope with the pandemic. Hospitals are struggling in country, which has registered 35,345 COVID-19 infections and 988 deaths.
- Germany's infections rose 569 to 203,368, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday, with the tally of deaths up six to 9,101.
- Germany could impose mandatory COVID-19 testing on air passengers from high-risk countries, according to health minister Jens Spahn.
- Russia reported 5,848 new cases on Thursday, pushing its national tally to 795,038, the fourth largest in the world. Officials said 147 people had died in the past 24 hours, taking the country's official death toll to 12,892.
- France will help state-owned railway company SNCF survive the coronavirus crisis by providing several billion dollars through a capital hike or an additional debt buy-back, said transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
- France expects economic growth of 8 percent for 2021, finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday, with the government wanting economic activity to return to pre-crisis levels from 2022.
- Eurozone bond yields held near multi-month lows on Thursday, with demand for fixed income supported by U.S.-China tensions and hopes the bloc will bounce back quickly from the impact of COVID-19 given this week's recovery fund deal.
-The European Union has granted Honduras $93 million in aid to help the impoverished Central American nation's health system cope with the pandemic. Hospitals are struggling in country, which has registered 35,345 COVID-19 infections and 988 deaths.
- Germany's infections rose 569 to 203,368, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday, with the tally of deaths up six to 9,101.
- Germany could impose mandatory COVID-19 testing on air passengers from high-risk countries, according to health minister Jens Spahn.
- Russia reported 5,848 new cases on Thursday, pushing its national tally to 795,038, the fourth largest in the world. Officials said 147 people had died in the past 24 hours, taking the country's official death toll to 12,892.
