Covid-19: how medtech is adapting to a distanced world
The coronavirus pandemic is a double challenge for many companies in the life sciences field. As the global Covid-19 death…
23 Sep 2020
The UK’s contact-tracing apps: why the long wait?
A new Covid-19 contact-tracing app developed by NHSX will finally launch across England and Wales on 24 September, over six months after the UK first entered lockdown. Scotland launched its…
15 Sep 2020
How do you build a secure contact tracing app?
In March, the NHS announced it had started work on a centralised contact-tracing app that would form a key component of the UK’s Test and Trace programme for stopping the…
11 Sep 2020
GlobalData Epidemiologist Report: Global Covid fatalities near 910,000 – infections pass 28.1 million
11 September Globally, the total confirmed cases of Covid-19 have reached over 28,170,000, with more than 909,000 deaths and 18,995,000 recoveries. Worldwide, daily confirmed cases continue to increase. This is…
11 Sep 2020
International update: Global Covid cases pass 28.1 million – Western Europe a new hotspot
11 September Global: Worldwide Covid-19 cases have now passed 28.1 million, with deaths exceeding 909,000 according to Johns Hopkins University. Latin America: The number of confirmed coronavirus infections topped eight…
11 Sep 2020
Why US dollar will remain dominant in spite of Covid
11 September The weakening of the US dollar due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the new policies proposed by the Federal Reserve, led to speculations that the US dollar is…
10 Sep 2020
International update: Global Covid deaths likely to pass 1 million by October – infections near 28 million
10 September Global: The global coronavirus death toll has passed 903,000 – just over ten weeks after passing 500,000. If global deaths continued at the current rate, the toll is…