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BUSINESS IEF sees 5.2 mb/d global oil demand shortfall in March and ‘stagnant last mile recovery’ in 2021 April 19, 2021 Joseph McMonigle, secretary general of the IEF, during a webinar to present the findings. RIYADH — The International Energy Forum (IEF) on Monday issued a report indicating that global oil consumption from transportation fuels in March was still 5.2 million barrels per day (mb/d) below where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The report entitled "Alternative Metrics for Real-Time Ass...

India's score on the Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker's stringency index has gone up over the last few days. The stringency index is a "composite measure based on nine response indicators including school closures, workplace closures and travel bans, rescaled to a value from 0 to 100".

As COVID rages in Canada, Atlantic provinces set model to follow Megan O'Toole © A bartender wearing a protective mask arranges glasses at a bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Monday, ... A bartender wearing a protective mask arranges glasses at a bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Monday, November 16, 2020 [File: Tim Krochak/Bloomberg via Getty Images] Halifax, Canada – As Canada grapples with a devastating third wave of COVID-19, the country’s eastern region stands as an oasis of normalcy, with case numbers dwindling and many of the most onerous restrictions now lifted. Whi...

Essential to effective policy responses to the pandemic are not just accurate information on the spread of COVID-19 itself, but also real-time data on the associated economic impacts.

- As we approach one-year into the pandemic, UNICEF urges greater investment in mental health services. - At least 1 in 7 children – or 332 million globally – has lived under required or recommended nationwide stay-at-home policies for at least nine months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting their mental health and well-being at risk, UNICEF warned today. The new analysis by UNICEF, which uses data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, identifies some of the most enduring lockdown conditions worldwide. According to the analysis, 139 million children globally ...