Japan and the International Olympic Committee have jointly decided to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year and said that the Games will be held in 2021. This decision was taken and multiple rounds of discussions between Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and IOC president Thomas Bach. This is only the fourth time in…
Troops of the United States National Guard are to be deployed in the three states hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak and the order was signed by the US President Donald Trump. Medical aid and setting up of medical stations will be the main mandate for the troops who will be deployed in New York,…
Car manufacturing companies around the world are answering calls by governments to provide help in the manufacturing of ventilators and face masks to help face the coronavirus pandemic. Work on converting one of its factories in China to enable it to make about one million masks a month had been started on Monday by Fiat.…
The rapid molecular test for point-of-care patients developed by Cepheid has been authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on an emergency basis and now can be used for detecting coronavirus in just 45 minutes This test is the first of its kind that can be used entirely at the point of…
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Saturday that UK companies should defer publishing of the preliminary financial statements by at least two weeks to enable them to better understand how their business is being affected by the coronavirus pandemic. “The FCA will be writing tonight to companies it is aware were intending to publish preliminary…
Tens of millions of American in the states of New York state, Illinois and Connecticut were directed to stay home on Friday – following a similar order by California as a part of the social distancing measures being implied in the United States to try and prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic through person…
Supermarkets and retailers in the United Kingdom are now hiring thousands because a sudden increase in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. After sudden and huge increase in demand resulted in empty shelves, announcement hiring thousands of staff to cope with the demand was made by UK supermarkets and retailers Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl.…
Amazon.com has temporarily stopped stocking of some specific items in its warehouses in order to cater to the overwhelming demand for household essentials as more and more people rush to stock them up as more cities worldwide are put under lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. This decision of the company could result in some…
The spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic across Europe is forcing Volkswagen to suspend production across the continent. Production work at its plants in Spain, Setubal in Portugal and Bratislava in Slovakia will be suspended before the current weekend, said the German carmaking giant on Tuesday. Production will also be halted at the company’s factories…
The fast good global giant McDonald’s has said that it could make offer to some franchises to defer their rents because of the significant drop in footfall or because of closures because of the ongoing uncertainty that has been brought about to its business by the coronavirus pandemic, the company said on Tuesday. Right now…
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