The World Health Organization has reported that Guinean health authorities have declared an outbreak of Ebola in a rural community in the south of the country, with at least seven people infected, two of whom died.
A global Gartner survey of more than 1,300 supply chain professionals has found that 87 percent of respondents plan investments in supply chain resiliency within the next two years. The survey, conducted from September 2020 through November 2020, showed that even more supply chain professionals (89 percent) want to invest in agility.
Despite the known link between antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), antibiotic consumption is likely to increase worldwide by 200 percent between 2015 and 2030 says a new report; increasing the very real threat that AMR presents.
Nick Sacke discusses how Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and the use of data can boost and support industries and the wider economy to unlock more efficient and sustainable production cycles, to help businesses survive in the short term and thrive in the future.
WHO has dispatched a research team to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after a new case of the disease was reported near the city of Butembo, in North Kivu province.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released its policy and supervision priorities for the coming year. Consistent with APRA’s strategic objectives detailed in its Corporate Plan, a key focus is to further enhance the resilience and crisis readiness of Australia’s financial system.
The United Nations Security Council has been told by Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), that the threat to international peace and security posed by ISIL terrorist fighters is ‘on the rise again’.
The results of a horizon scanning process facilitated by the Centre for Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge and the BioRISC project at St Catharine's College have been published. A group of 41 academics and figures from industry and government submitted 450 possible questions (potential risk areas) which were then debated, voted on, and ranked to define the 80 most urgent.
European companies that accelerate both their digital and sustainability transitions are likely to recover faster and emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, according to a new report from Accenture.
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