Geopolitical Risks

COVID set to cost next generation $17 trillion

A new report has warned that the students of today are set to lose $17 trillion in lifetime earnings, due to the impact of COVID ion their education

Vaccine creator: future pandemics could be worse than COVID

Future pandemics could be even more lethal than COVID-19, according to Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford and one of the team that developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

Omicron battle “a race against time” says EU

Staving off Omicron while scientists establish how easily it can spread and whether it can evade vaccine protection is a “race against time” the president of the European Union’s executive Commission said, emphasising the role of vaccines

OECD: inflation main risk to economic outlook

The main risk to an otherwise upbeat global economic outlook is that the current inflation spike proves longer and rises further than currently expected, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

UN chief says vaccination key to saving millions and driving global recovery

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has warned global recovery remains under threat from the impact of COVID pandemic and called for the equitable distribution of vaccines

Research aims to tackle vaccine blood clotting threat

As the world looks to tackle the threat posed by the omicron variant, researchers in the UK have announced a new programme which will look at one of the rare but serious side effects of vaccination