The World Health Organization (WHO) has said another 500,000 people in Europe could die of COVID-19 by March next year unless urgent action is taken.The WHO’s Europe director, Dr Hans Kluge, said he was very worried about a fresh wave of infections that had spread across the continent and led countries to announce new restrictions.Austria announced this week that it would become the first country to legally require people to have the vaccines from February.

Tens of thousands took to the streets in cities across Europe and Australia Saturday as anger mounted over fresh COVID restrictions imposed against a resurgent pandemic.And Dutch police faced a second night of rioting – this time in The Hague – after the previous night's violence in the port city of Rotterdam.Clashes erupted after a day of mainly peaceful protests elsewhere in the Netherlands, with rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police and setting fire to bicycles.

It was almost as if the pandemic had never happened. In Cologne, thousands of revellers in fancy-dress jostled side by side in a tightly packed throng as they counted down to the start of the annual carnival season at 11 am on 11 November.In Paris, the bars and clubs were open late and filled to bursting on Wednesday, with Armistice Day a national holiday.

Europe is once again "at the epicentre" of the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as cases soar across the continent.At a press conference WHO Europe head Hans Kluge said the continent could see half a million more deaths by February.He blamed insufficient vaccine take-up for the rise."We must change our tactics, from reacting to surges of COVID-19 to preventing them from happening in the first place," he said.The rate of vaccination has slowed

After two months of improvement, the coronavirus pandemic took a turn for the worse this week around the world, fuelled by deteriorating situations in Europe and the United States (US).Here is the global state of play based on an AFP database.On The March AgainThe number of new daily cases increased slightly by two percent globally to 410,654, according to an AFP tally to Thursday.There were however wide disparities between regions.The pandemic had been slowing down since late August, but has

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that another 236,000 people could die from COVID in Europe by 1 December, sounding the alarm over rising infections and stagnating vaccine rates on the continent.The warning comes as the world passed the grim milestone of 4.5 million deaths from COVID since the start of the pandemic, according to an AFP tally Monday. Infections rates are ticking up globally again, as the highly transmissible Delta variant takes hold –especially among

Nations across the globe hit new pandemic highs and reimposed COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday as G20 finance ministers meeting in Venice warned the economic recovery was threatened by variants and uneven vaccination campaigns.The highly transmissible Delta variant, first detected in India, is sweeping the world as countries race to inoculate their populations to ward off fresh outbreaks and allow for economies and daily life to resume."The recovery is characterised by great divergences

More than four million people have now died from COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, as many rich nations prepare to loosen restrictions even as countries in Asia battle surging infections.Millions are facing new lockdowns across Asia and Indonesia has emerged as a global hotspot with death rates rising tenfold in a month to a record 1,040 on Wednesday."The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calling

Last year, I lost my teacher, friend, and most valued research colleague, and the world lost a brilliant economist. Richard Cooper was one of my supervisors when I was pursuing my Ph.D. at Yale. As a doctoral candidate, I benefited from a veritable “dream team” of economists, each of whom enriched my life and work tremendously. James Tobin pushed me towards deep and creative insights with empirical relevance. Edmund Phelps sharpened my analytical skills.

The 2021 G7 summit took place in the United Kingdom (UK) at Carbis Bay in Cornwall. Since the 1970s, the G7 has met each year. The G7 is an informal bloc of industrialised democracies consisting of the United States (US), Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom (UK). The group meets annually to discuss global economic issues, health emergencies, international security, energy policy, climate crisis, and the like.