All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2020 // Many global companies from hotels and airlines to industrial houses are expected to have to foot the bill for disruptions caused by a new coronavirus in China, with epidemics usually excluded from insurance cover, experts...
Feb 9 2020 // BEIJING, Feb 10 — An advance team of international experts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for Beijing to help investigate China’s coronavirus epidemic, which authorities said on Monday had...
Feb 7 2020 // Feb 7 (Reuters) – Over two dozen large trade fairs and industry conferences in China and overseas have been postponed or hit by travel curbs and concerns about the spread of a coronavirus, potentially disrupting...
Feb 6 2020 // For Hong Kong insurers, the coronavirus outbreak is a second blow.Already reeling from at-times violent demonstrations that slowed the flood of Chinese travelers — one of the biggest sources of new policyholders...
Feb 6 2020 // China’s fast-moving coronavirus spread among passengers of a quarantined Japanese cruise liner on Thursday and dragged down production at more global businesses, as scientists across the world searched for a...
Feb 4 2020 // Feb 4 – Airlines are suspending flights to China in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak.Here is the latest on their plans (in alphabetical order): AIR CANADAAir Canada said on Jan. 28 it was canceling select...
Feb 4 2020 // Thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, working from home is no longer a privilege, it’s a necessity.While factories, shops, hotels and restaurants are warning about plunging foot traffic that is transforming city...
Feb 4 2020 // Rating firm AM Best said it expects that China’s non-life insurance market will experience limited losses from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.The analysts based their outlook on factors including the central...
Feb 3 2020 // Companies around the world have warned that a coronavirus outbreak in China could disrupt supply chains or hurt bottom lines as factories and shops shut and airlines suspend flights.FINANCIAL IMPACT: * Apple gave a...
Feb 3 2020 // The economic and diplomatic costs of China’s coronavirus epidemic mounted on Monday with investors knocking $400 billion off the value of stocks and the government accusing the United States of over-reacting to the...
Jan 31 2020 // The U.K. confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus on Friday, while the U.S. and Japan advised citizens to avoid traveling to China. Singapore suspended visas issued to Chinese citizens. Stocks fell in Europe and Asia...
Jan 29 2020 // Many global companies from hotels and airlines to industrial houses are expected to have to foot the bill for disruptions caused by a new coronavirus in China, with epidemics usually excluded from insurance cover, experts...
Jan 29 2020 // Starbucks Corp. has closed more than half of its coffee shops in mainland China — about 2,000 of them — and Toyota Motor Corp. is halting production in the country, as global corporations grapple with a...
Jan 28 2020 // Apple Inc.’s China-centric manufacturing base is at risk of disruption after the Lunar New Year holiday as the company’s partners confront the coronavirus outbreak that has gripped the country and caused more...
Jan 27 2020 // As the Wuhan coronavirus spreads to America, it now seems quite possible the United States will face some considerable logistical challenges. Even if the virus turns out not to be very deadly, or mutates into a safer form,...
Jan 26 2020 // Five people in the United States, all of whom recently traveled from Wuhan, China, have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, officials of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday.The count...
Jan 24 2020 // The effects on multinational businesses from a potentially worsening Wuhan coronavirus outbreak could be severe, which is why they need to review, test and potentially update plans related to business continuity, crisis...
Jan 24 2020 // China’s new deadly virus is more difficult to contain than other pandemics because those infected may not get a fever, a symptom governments around the world are using to screen for the pathogen.The National Health...
Jan 22 2020 // President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States has a plan in place to contain the coronavirus outbreak.Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland,...
Jan 22 2020 // Deaths from China’s new flu-like virus rose to nine on Wednesday with more than 470 confirmed cases, heightening global fears of contagion from an infection suspected to have come from animals.The previously unknown...