[New] Rewrites CDC Panel's Charter could hinder public health advancements, potentially blocking releases of studies showing COVID vaccine benefits.
Coaio Limited
[New] The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital adoption, particularly in South Asia, highlighting both opportunities and challenges in using digital platforms for sustainable development.
Nature
[New] Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many institutions, particularly national public health institutions and national reference laboratories, accounting for 87.3% in Africa, had extremely limited genomics and bioinformatics literacy, expertise, and opportunities.
Nature
[New] Investment in logistics digital transformation alone could reach $84.6 billion due to COVID-19.
Market.us Scoop
Tariff uncertainty, trade policy changes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and recent years' unprecedented supply chain disruptions in the Red Sea and Panama Canal have accelerated the outsourcing pace of global logistics.
Logistics Management
Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan warned of geopolitical disruptions that could surpass the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while stressing the resilience of the Saudi economy and its ability to manage crises.
Past disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war showed that periods of extreme volatility are temporary and markets eventually stabilise.
Economic Times
Even the city of Moscow, the center of Russia's wealthiest region, admitted that in 2026 it will need to cut its investment programme for the first time since the Covid pandemic.
The Guardian
Government policy changes have done more than the coronavirus pandemic to throttle Australia's language training sector, costing thousands of jobs and threatening to fundamentally change the nature of a once-thriving industry.
Times Higher Education (THE)
UK businesses with unresolved COVID-19 business interruption (BI) insurance disputes are being urged to review their positions as key limitation dates approach, with lawyers warning that some policyholders could soon be out of time to sue.
Insurance Business
With COVID-19 completely changing the business landscape, historical data will no longer be the primary driver of AI-based technologies.
RIB Software
Economic development is another key issue, as Bangladesh, once among Asia's fastest-growing economies, has struggled since the COVID-19 pandemic and disruptions to its export-driven garment sector during the 2024 unrest.
Economic Times
While falling interest rates helped boost business lending last year to the highest level since the coronavirus pandemic, the current unpredictable trading environment is expected to weigh on investment appetite in 2026, leading to more modest growth.
The Independent
Business rates will increase sharply over the next three years as Covid-era support is phased out and property values are adjusted to reflect a return to normal business, post-pandemic.
BBC News
The COVID crisis, Russia's war in Ukraine and the U.S. approach to ending it, and Trump's tariffs have driven cohesion by highlighting a vulnerability to global supply chains and economic dependency.
104.5 & 96.1 The Point
The past decade has seen a welcome rebirth of the nation state as the locus for policy making, with the vulnerabilities exposed by the Covid pandemic rekindling interest not just in active industrial strategies but in measures to control capital, trade and people.
New Statesman
Last updated: 17 April 2026
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