Dear Colleagues,
WOW! We’ve reached a hundred million cases worldwide!
For most of us, this was a normal business week. Feedback from vaccine programs worldwide and further lockdowns in response to new strains of COVID-19 have dominated the headlines. The effect on Europe has been rioting in response to further lockdowns.
Florida has a new tourism product – vaccine tourism. Many Jamaicans, and presumably the wider Caribbean, have been travelling to Florida to be vaccinated.
Weekend review:
Enhance your CPD with our 2020 Conference recorded sessions on Actuview. The other big topic:
- IFRS-17 Implementation Challenges for the Caribbean
- IFRS-17 Progress Report – Views from the Regulators
Weekend reads:
- A new UNESCO Report calls for better education data and action to include those left behind in the Caribbean, as it faces up to the pandemic
- IDB works with health ministries, private sector to prepare vaccine rollout
- IMF Weekend Read: World Economic Outlook | Climate Economy | Global Financial Stability Report | Fiscal Monitor | Economic Institutions | Gulf Economies
- IMF: A Race Between Vaccines and the Virus as Recoveries Diverge (govdelivery.com)
- McKinsey: The risks and challenges of the global COVID-19-vaccine rollout
- National Geographic: COVID-19 will likely be with us forever. Here’s how we’ll live with it
- NYT: What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?
- Healthcare IT news: New AI model can predict length of COVID-19 hospitalization
- FP Insider: The World After the Coronavirus
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Your News Team: Shubhash, Betty, Pedro and Brian
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