Business

Creative start-ups and private flats: City of London eyes post-Covid future

  By Reuters Staff, published by News.trust.org London – London’s “Square Mile” financial district plans to convert empty offices into homes and offer lower rents to creative businesses as part of a recovery plan from the Covid-19 pandemic, which has left many working from home and once bustling streets deserted. Built around the vast fortress-like

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World news

Medical supplies flow into India as Covid deaths near 200,000

By Reuters Staff, published by Swissinfo.ch New Delhi – Vital medical supplies poured into India today as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters

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Health

Record single day toll of 15 Covid deaths, face mask rule spreads 

  THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said this morning (April 27) that the 24-hour Covid death toll reached a record 15 fatalities taking the total to 163 while there were 2,179 new cases with 169 patients requiring ventilators, Thai Rath newspaper said. Meanwhile 52 provinces have followed Bangkok in imposing the mandatory face

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