Bloomberg Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered the transport ministry to cut the number of flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to other Vietnamese cities from March 28 as the government moves to slow the novel coronavirus outbreak across the country, according to a post on government’s website. This suspension of flights could last a week or longer, ...

As the coronavirus crisis has rocked the world, America has been a sluggish and unreliable global leader except in one critical area — the Federal Reserve’s prompt moves to pump cash into traumatised international financial markets. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H Powell has been innovative in creating new monetary tools that can keep money and confidence flowing. The system was ...

One of the noteworthy aspects of our current coronavirus moment is the rapid proliferation of self-appointed data analysts. These armchair epidemiologists seem to believe they can project the trajectory of Covid-19 better than actual epidemiologists who have spent their whole careers studying the spread of disease. You know who I’m talking about: It’s not just the guy on Medium whose ...