Stuart Chalmers, Managing Director – Scotland Financial Services Lead, said that the 160,000 employees of Scotland’s financial services should be very proud of the way they adapted to support companies across the country: evidenced by the positivity on display at The Herald’s Innovation for Recovery webinar, hosted by Kim McAllister. The exciting event is available below as part of The Herald s webinar series. Financial Services certainly reacted quickly, aware of the vital role they have in stabilising the economy. Services like payment holidays for loans were rolled out quickly, along with scaling up online capabilities as customers turned increasingly to apps and online banking to access and manage their finances. In a matter of weeks, they put in the processes to channel government-backed loans to businesses as quickly as possible.
Print article Alaska is in the midst of a second wave of coronavirus that’s setting new records and shows no sign of slowing. Case numbers are surging in Anchorage and Fairbanks but also in isolated, medically underserved rural communities including the Yukon River delta village of Chevak where nearly 18% of the population tested positive in the space of just a few days. Statewide, there are so many people testing positive that public health workers can’t keep up with the contact tracing that’s a central part of Alaska’s strategy to contain coronavirus. Alaska statewide case-count records were shattered on Saturday, with 355 new cases reported, then again Sunday with 526 cases. The numbers of people hospitalized in Alaska with COVID-19 hit its highest level at one time so far on Friday, at 59, and 58 were reported hospitalized on Sunday. Hospitalizations are considered a “lagging indicator,” meaning people admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 may have tested pos