Bloomberg Mexico’s foreign minister said the country won’t yet suspend flights from Europe, contradicting US President Donald Trump, but it will restrict land travel across its northern border. Trump said in a news conference earlier on March 20 that Mexico had taken action to secure the border and suspend air travel from Europe. At his own news conference hours later, ...

Bloomberg North Korea appears to have fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea shared with Japan, hours after leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a military exercise. South Korea said it had detected the projectiles fired from North Pyongan Province near the West Sea and that they travelled 410 kilometers (255 miles). Japan’s coast guard confirmed that the projectiles fell outside ...

Bloomberg New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a coronavirus alert system with escalating restrictions on human contact, travel and business operations as the risk of community transmission grows. In a televised address to the nation on Saturday, Ardern said New Zealand had moved to level two on the four-tier system, signalling the virus is contained but domestic transmission risks ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Donald Trump and other leaders want to ramp up coronavirus testing. There’s just one problem: Providers of the diagnostics can’t make enough kits to keep up with demand. The UK will soon be testing 25,000 people a day for the virus, Johnson said at a press conference, and that could eventually rise ...

By now, it must be obvious to almost everyone that we can’t — and won’t — escape another recession. The coronavirus pandemic is pushing just about every major segment of the US economy into serious decline. Frightened consumers are cutting their purchases. Businesses have already curbed investment spending and, facing new uncertainties, are likely to retrench further. Global trade has ...

They are the most numerous and lowest-paid US healthcare workers: the 4.5 million caregivers who assist elderly and disabled people with such daily activities as bathing, dressing, feeding and toileting. Compared to other medical workers, they have the most frequent and personal contact with the elderly. That puts them on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Known in the ...

Although President Donald Trump has declared the coronavirus a national emergency and leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he would “call out the military now” to deal with it, Defense Department officials are unenthusiastic about the prospect. And well they should be. There are lots of practical reasons the military isn’t a substitute for the public health infrastructure needed ...

The federal government is moving at a breakneck pace to respond to the coronavirus recession. In the states, however, the preliminary data suggests staggering job losses, exceeding economists’ expectations of just a week ago. If the pattern holds, it will mark the sharpest downturn in the labour market on record. A spike in initial claims for unemployment insurance is among ...

The $8.3 billion spending bill that President Donald Trump signed last week to address the coronavirus crisis contains a provision that could be costly: When a vaccine for the virus becomes available, the law says, the government can spend no more than a “fair and reasonable” price for it. But it does not require the drugmaker to accept such a ...

Add doctors to hospital beds and lab testing on the list of things that risk being in short supply as the coronavirus continues to spread in the US. America has 2.61 physicians per 1,000 people, ranking it 26th out of 35 countries in an OECD database. Not all of these professionals are best suited to meet the current crisis due ...