Covid 19
Coronavirus Pandemic Increases Deforestation Activities Across The Globe
August 11, 2020 10:21 AM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaThe outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has severely affected the opportunities of income generation for a wider section of the global population. This crisis situation has prompted many people and businesses to take up certain illegal activities .....
Coronavirus impact: Ofgem reduces energy price cap limit
August 09, 2020 05:18 AM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaIn its half yearly reviews, the energy regulator, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) has reduced the energy price cap to record lows as the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted the wholesale energy market prices. Th.....
Weekly Economic Calendar: Upcoming Global Updates Under the Spotlight
August 08, 2020 03:10 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Amidst COVID-19 storm, economies all across the globe have started to reopen in the hope of registering a pyrrhic victory post a bleak first half 2020. After suffering thick and fast, America, China, Australia and New Zealand brace to r.....
Five-Point Action Plan to Survive COVID-19 Storm
August 08, 2020 03:00 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The nation’s job market seems to be on track to defeat the pandemic, widening the professional skill set is crucial. Given the potentially positive signs emerging so far, the economic indicators deserve closer attention while gaug.....
Impact of Coronavirus on Australian Economy and Way Forward
August 06, 2020 09:29 AM BST| By Edita IvancevicSummary A start of the new pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China created a global health challenge and an economic catastrophe. Just after the most horrific bushfire season ended, Australians needed to adapt to a “new normal”. B.....
Coronavirus crisis: Government’s decision on drug stockpiling and handling of covid-19 testing contracts in focus
August 05, 2020 06:22 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary To prepare for Brexit and coronavirus-led crisis, the UK government asked pharma companies to stockpile drugs. The government’s urge is in response to the pharmaceutical industry’s warning of June 2020, which said that the o.....
Businesses in the UK Lobby Against Phase Out Of COVID-19 Stimulus Measures
August 05, 2020 02:11 PM BST| By Kunal SawhneySummary The government expenditure levels for its main stimulus schemes to support businesses during the pandemic has already reached astronomical levels, crossing £50 billion mark Businesses are strongly lobbying against the withdrawal o.....
Covid-19 Impact: Streaming Services Gain Foothold in Entertainment for Britons
August 05, 2020 02:00 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Britons, in general, spent nearly half of their day in watching content online and television during the lockdown The online content providers and OTT platforms have strongly emerged as a parallel industry due to the outbreak of the Cov.....
Coronavirus Vaccine - ‘Silver bullet’ OR NOT as per WHO
August 05, 2020 09:38 AM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary World Health Organization (WHO) stated that at the moment, there is ‘no silver bullet’ for COVID-19 and that could hold for the future as well. The international body advised all countries to precisely implement health .....
Horse Breeder from India to help us win the Battle Against COVID 19- Serum Institute
August 03, 2020 11:51 AM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Serum Institute of India gets DCGI go-ahead to conduct Phase 2/3 clinical trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine (AZD1222) in India. The Phase 2/3 clinical trial of AZD1222 (Covishield) would be conducted across 17 select.....
Are We in a Messed-up state in the Fight Against COVID-19?
August 01, 2020 03:10 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary COVID-19 has emerged as the most challenging thing for the world that has taken severe charge over global economics as well as society. Major economies have felt severe repercussions due to the pandemic with the US GDP tumbling by 32.9%.....
Covid-19 impact on The Nationwide Housing Price Index in Britain
August 01, 2020 01:15 AM BST| By Kunal SawhneyDuring the month of June 2020, the growth in annual house price came to a screeching halt as the novel coronavirus continues to dampen the state of the economy. According to a recent report on Housing Price Index (HPI) released by the Nationw.....
Coronavirus: GSK partners with Sanofi to supply 60 million dosages of potential vaccine to UK
July 31, 2020 07:59 PM BST| By Hina ChowdharyThe global pharmaceutical industry has been under the pump since the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic. Lockdown, social distancing, and health safety are all passive measures to curb the spread of the contagious virus. The world is in dire need...
UK Government to Legalise Video-witnessed Wills During Coronavirus Pandemic
July 31, 2020 07:47 PM BST| By Kunal SawhneySummary The UK government plans to bring certain changes to the existing law to allow remote or virtual witnessing of wills The decision to allow virtual witness of will till January 2022 will remove the hurdles that some citizens have faced wh.....
Covid-19 Impact: Loss for Metropolitan Properties Could Be Gain for Suburban Ones
July 31, 2020 07:15 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The convenience of working from home has now changed businesses outlook on hiring high-end properties in metropolitans and moving to suburbs. While this change in outlook towards metropolitan properties is driving down their rentals, it.....
Coronavirus Impact: Care Homes Severely Hit During the Unprecedented Crisis
July 29, 2020 02:45 PM BST| By Kunal SawhneySummary Notwithstanding the hard work and commitment of a section of society, things have been difficult for adult social care According to a recent report by the British Parliament, nearly 25 thousand of coronavirus infected patients were forc.....
UK’s Quarantine Free List: Five More Countries Added
July 29, 2020 01:40 PM BST| By Kunal SawhneySummary This makes the total number of quarantine-free regions to 80, Britons returning back home from any of these do not have to undergo a compulsive self-isolation for 14 days Spain was removed from the country’s quarantine-free travel.....
Coronavirus relief scheme: Film and Television Industry Gets Funding of £500 Million to Start Production
July 29, 2020 01:30 PM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary The UK government launches a £500 million emergency fund for the film and TV production industry. The film and TV production industry will get a boost with this insurance fund as it struggles to come out of the Coronavirus crisis.....
COVID Diary: Strategies that helped these 100 Companies create History
July 29, 2020 06:02 PM AEST| By Team Kalkine MediaIndex E-commerce Business Technology Sector Healthcare Sector Retail Sector Financial Sector Gold Mining Companies Miscellaneous Businesses “We will not be going back to the “old normal”. The pandemic has alread...
COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainland China Reports Highest Single Day Spike Since April
July 29, 2020 05:17 AM BST| By Team Kalkine MediaSummary Mainland China has been witnessing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, and on 28 July 2020, the country saw its highest number of daily cases since mid of April. As per the country’s National Health Commission, there have been 84,060 .....