Month: June 2020

Bill Gates says COVID-19 ‘will be back in big numbers’ in October-November when US temperatures turn lower

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Bill Gates is warning that the US is still “very much in the thick of things” when it comes to COVID-19. And he believes that, given that many people refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing, that we are heading for another big round of infections in the fall. “Better treatment is reducing the deaths, but, particularly as you get into October and November, this thing will be back in big numbers, if we don’t restrain our behavior more than it looks like we are right at the moment,”…

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Bill Gates says pandemic could get ‘worse than I would have expected’ — and calls for leadership

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Tech leaders typically use their TED talks to sketch out an optimistic vision of the future, but today Bill Gates used his to warn about a rough autumn ahead due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. “There’s good progress … but nothing that would fundamentally alter the fact that this fall in the United States could be quite bad, and that’s worse than I would have predicted a month ago,” he told moderator Chris Anderson during a live-streamed TED2020 Q&A. Although Gates didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name, he faulted…

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WHO Chief On COVID-19 Pandemic: ‘The Worst Is Yet To Come

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The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic is speeding up, and he criticized governments that have failed to establish reliable contact tracing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Speaking at a briefing in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is this is not even close to being over.” “Although many countries have made some progress, globally the pandemic is actually speeding up,” he said.…

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U.S. Commercial Crude Oil Stocks Hit Record High

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The United States held a record-high level of commercial crude oil inventories as of the week to June 19 following the collapse in demand in the lockdown and the slow demand recovery after lockdowns were lifted, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Monday. In its latest Weekly Petroleum Status Report, the EIA reported a 1.4-million-barrel increase in crude oil inventories for the week to June 19. At 540.7 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are still above the five-year average for this time of the year, and…

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To end loadshedding PSO opens bids tomorrow for furnace oil import to generate power

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ISLAMABAD: With a view to wriggling Karachi—business capital of Pakistan out of crippling power outages and to avoid increasing loadshedding in Punjab, KP, Sindh and Balochistan, the state owned Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is all set to hold much awaited bids opening tomorrow (June 30, 2020) for import of furnace oil. And the furnace oil will be imported through Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) ships and once the furnace oil is made available the ongoing loadshedding in Karachi in particular and other parts of the country in general will be…

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