Airline Losses Pile Up; France to Ease Some Curbs: Virus Update Bloomberg 47 mins ago Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Airlines’ losses will amount to as much as $48 billion this year, the industry’s trade group said, widening its estimate by about a quarter as virus flare-ups and mutations push back the restart of global travel.
France plans to lift curbs on regional movement and reopen schools in coming weeks, while leaving a curfew in place, the government spokesman said. In Germany, the lower house of parliament backed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s controversial lockdown law.
India is driving a surge of cases in Asia, reporting nearly 300,000 new infections and a record of more than 2,000 deaths on Wednesday. In Japan, Tokyo and Osaka will ask the government to declare a state of emergency, looking to contain surging cases ahead of the Olympics. The United Arab Emirates is considering restrictions on people who haven’t taken a vaccine despite being eligi