Bloomberg Hong Kong will shorten the quarantine period for residents and staff of residential care homes for the elderly and those with disabilities because isolation beds will run out in days, the city’s welfare secretary said on his blog. The quarantine period for home-care residents and staff has been cut to seven days from two weeks if their test ...

  Bloomberg Frank-Walter Steinmeier was re-elected to a second five-year term in the mainly ceremonial post of German president. Steinmeier, 66, won the backing of about two-thirds of the Federal Assembly, a body convened solely for the purpose comprising all lawmakers from the lower house and representatives from the German states. He was supported by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) has begun talks with the UK Debt Management Office and the Treasury over how to handle active sales of bonds held in its quantitative easing (QE) portfolio, according an official with knowledge of the matter. The discussions come as the central bank last week said it would begin running down its 875 billion ...