Bloomberg The European Union’s foreign and diplomatic wing said there’s evidence of a “coordinated push” by official Chinese sources to deflect blame for the coronavirus pandemic and promote its response to the virus. Official Chinese sources have been “publicising announcements and deliveries of bilateral assistance, with polls in certain countries showing China being perceived as more helpful in fighting the ...

Bloomberg India’s government is allowing smaller neighbourhood stores to reopen, bringing relief to residents after a month into the world’s biggest lockdown that’s restricting 1.3 billion people. The shops can deploy a maximum of 50% of their staff, all wearing masks and following social distancing rules, according to the order issued by the home ministry. The order includes standalone stores ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong police rejected an application by a pro-democracy labour group to hold a march on May 1, citing concerns about public health and security risks, the government said in a statement. The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions had proposed to hold the march in groups of four spaced at least 1.5 metres apart. It expressed concern in ...

Bloomberg The US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump’s administration keep using a tough test to screen out green card applicants who might become dependent on government benefits, refusing to halt the policy because of the Covid-19 outbreak. With no published dissents, the justices rejected a request from a New York-led group of state and local governments that said emergency ...

Across the developing world, the defining images of the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic have been of migrant workers: abandoned, angry, starving. In their zeal to control the spread of the new coronavirus, governments have all too often betrayed their most aspirational citizens — those who move from countryside to cities to build better lives for themselves and their families. ...

First Walt Disney Co’s Bob Iger, and now AT&T Inc’s Randall Stephenson. As two of the world’s most powerful entertainment and communications companies confront the streaming wars and the Covid-19 pandemic — bracing for what may be a new normal brought on by both — they’ll have to venture into the unknown under new leadership. Stephenson, who took a prosaic ...

The results from the first blood surveys that test for evidence of antibodies to the new coronavirus have begun rolling in. They’ve been confirming earlier hints that in hard-hit places a significant share of people — 21.2% in the New York City survey — may have been infected with the virus, and that in most other places the percentages are ...

Remember the Magic School Bus, the animated series in which a somewhat demented school teacher named Ms. Frizzle (catchphrase: “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!”) takes her class on mind-bending adventures? In one episode, she reduces the bus to microscopic size and takes her charges into the bloodstream of an ill classmate. You see the kids swimming around in tiny ...

It’s not just air tickets that are being cancelled as the coronavirus causes global travel to seize up. Purchases of aircraft are also being pulled. Aircraft lessors Avolon Holdings Ltd, China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co, and General Electric Co’s GECAS have rescinded orders for 173 Boeing Co 737 MAX aircraft over the past month, worth $17.8 billion at list ...

My son Nick lives in New Zealand, which has done a remarkable job fighting the coronavirus. As of April 24, the nation of 4.8 million people had 1,456 confirmed cases and only 17 deaths. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government is now talking about not just containing the virus but eliminating it. It helps that New Zealand is an island nation ...