
The coronavirus epidemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for large-scale community transmissions, a WHO official has said. Even with all the measures, the risk of transmission in the region will ...

International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Friday that the global economy, including the United States, has entered a recession amid the spread of the new coronavirus. “It is now clear that we have entered a recession as bad or worse” than that seen in the aftermath of the 2008 ...