 | | | | World finance leaders tried to lift confidence with emergency measures to pour cash into panic-stricken markets on Thursday, as investors everywhere dumped assets, switching to dollars amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | Iran's death toll from coronavirus jumped to 1,284 on Thursday, the health ministry said, with the total number of infections rising to 18,407 in the Islamic Republic, the worst-affected country in the Middle East. | | | | | | World finance leaders tried to lift confidence with emergency measures to pour cash into panic-stricken markets on Thursday, as investors everywhere dumped assets, switching to dollars amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic. | | | | | | General Electric's healthcare unit said on Thursday it was increasing the number of shifts and the manufacturing lines to produce ventilators around the clock, following the coronavirus outbreak. | | | | | | U.S. researchers, following the lead of scientists in other countries, have launched studies to see whether widely-available, low-cost generic drugs can be used to help treat the illness caused by the new coronavirus. | | | | | | Dutch health authorities have begun a major project testing blood donation samples to see how many people in the Netherlands may have already had the new coronavirus, often with symptoms so mild they hardly noticed. | | | | | | Faced by a rising death toll from coronavirus and a big jump in infections, Indonesia's president on Thursday called for testing to be stepped up immediately in the world's fourth most populous country. | | | | | | China aviation regulator said on Thursday it had asked airlines to reduce capacity on international flights not add to them, as part of efforts to battle the coronavirus epidemic. | | | | | | Restrictions imposed by several European Union countries at their borders with other members of the bloc due to the coronavirus are causing disruption for the supply of food, representatives of the industry and farmers said on Thursday. | | | | | | A committee of the European healthcare regulator urged researchers to prioritize larger studies into potential treatments for COVID-19, as they are most likely to generate conclusive data. | | | | | |
