New York City’s restaurants may be able to benefit from outdoor dining sales not just as a short-term COVID-19 measure, but as a long-term fixture of their business. The New York City Council had a hearing Tuesday (Feb. 8) to get different parties’ views on...
Several Chinese cities cranked up their COVID-19 alert levels to high ahead of the Lunar New Year on Feb. 1, with the travel season related to the annual holiday beginning to ramp up and the omicron variant of the coronavirus continuing its spread across the...
A German biotech firm and a north African artificial intelligence (AI) startup have developed an early warning tool that can the highest risk COVID-19 variants months in advance, according to a new study. As the Financial Times reported Wednesday (Jan. 12), the program — developed...
Omicron staff shortages in the U.K., including illnesses as well as mandatory isolation, might end up cutting $48 billion in output in January and February, Bloomberg reported Sunday (Jan. 9), citing The Sunday Times. The loss will be around 8.8% of the gross domestic product...
Remember first hearing someone use “COVID-19” in a sentence? It likely wasn’t January 2020, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first announced a nameless new virus had arrived in the U.S. As late as Jan. 23, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
More than 1 million COVID-19 cases were registered Monday (Jan. 3) in the U.S., setting a single-day record, but with the caveat that the number included a testing backlog for coronavirus tests done during the New Year’s holiday weekend, according to a report in The...
With COVID-19 cases breaking records each day, the restaurant industry is entering 2022 in a very different place than operators would have guessed just a month earlier. These surges come alongside already scheduled federal changes mandating new controls for vaccinations and testing. Starbucks told employees...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have added Malta, Moldova and Sweden to the highest-risk destinations for travel due to COVID-19, CNN reported Wednesday (Dec. 29). The CDC puts a destination at Level 4 when more than 500 cases per 100,000 residents have...
What does the rate of post-pandemic growth look like? It might depend on who you ask. More to the point, it might depend on where that person lives. As PYMNTS and Melio learned in their December Main Street Index (MSI) report, growth paths in the...
