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New data shows treatment more efficient than thought; US deaths pass 250,000; Swiss intensive care units at full capacity. Follow the updates

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  • It’s another slightly sticky day on financial markets with investor concerns about the continuing spread of Covid-19 trumping increasingly promising news about a vaccine.

    Shares fell in Asia Pacific in early trade on Thursday morning. In Sydney the ASX200 was off 0.5% while in Tokyo stocks were off 0.4% and the Kospi in Seoul was down 0.25%. They followed similar losses on the S&P500 and Dow Jones in Wall Street on Wednesday.

    Have we entered the next #USD bear market? It could well be. pic.twitter.com/VbBgxXCG9p

    .@Citi says #USD may drop 20% next year on vaccines

    Grab your #gold and hold on to it tight pic.twitter.com/t95AwEatWD

    The virus crisis has made Londoners more disillusioned with city life than people in other major European centres, new research suggests.

    A survey of over 5,000 residents across London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Milan by the engineering firm Arup showed that half of those questioned in the UK capital complained that amenities were too far away, the Press Association reports.

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    from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2IQOQh0

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