‘Everybody is scared of 2021.’ Europeans are losing jobs, businesses and hope
Last year was looking like a record breaker for Chris Wiseheart’s transport company in Prague. Wiseheart, originally from Detroit, had built the business over nearly two decades from an airport shuttle service to a chauffeur outfit sought out by the crews behind music’s biggest names. Think Madonna, AC/DC and Metallica.
He was gearing up to service tours by Iron Maiden, System of a Down, The Chainsmokers and more than a dozen other major acts when everything came crashing down. “March 13 it all came to a grinding halt. Bookings were canceled and concerts were postponed,” Wiseheart, 65, told CNN Business.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, public discussion of the virus’s lethality has focussed on two metrics: the infection fatality rate (the percentage of those who become infected that go on to die)
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Jan 22, 2021 6:12 AM
LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus in England decreased slightly in the latest week but prevalence overall remained high, the UK’s Office for National Statistics said on Friday.
The ONS estimated that around 1 in 55 people had COVID-19 within the community population in England in the week ending Jan 16, a lower prevalence than the estimate of 1 in 50 people in the last full infection survey published two weeks ago.
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