Taïwan devient le premier pays asiatique à légaliser le mariage homosexuel
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« Le 17 mai 2019 à Taïwan, l’amour a gagné », a déclaré la présidente Tsai Ing-wen, dont la légalisation du mariage homosexuel était une promesse de campagne. « Nous avons fait un grand pas vers une véritable égalité, et fait de Taïwan un pays meilleur », a-t-elle ajouté dans un tweet accompagné du drapeau arc-en-ciel.

La politique zéro Covid prônée au plus haut niveau du pouvoir en Chine pour tenter de combattre la pandémie « n’est pas soutenable », a affirmé mardi le patron de l’OMS, affirmant qu’il en avait discuté avec des experts chinois.
« Quand nous parlons de stratégie zéro Covid, nous ne pensons pas que c’est soutenable, considérant le comportement du virus à l’heure actuelle et celui que nous prévoyons dans le futur (…) passer à une stratégie différente est très important », a déclaré Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lors d’un point de presse de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé à Genève.

President Joe Biden said he could drop some of the tariffs imposed against Chinese imports to help control rising consumer prices in the U.S. — just as Wall Street braces for another inflation report north of 8%.
 
The White House is reviewing the penalties imposed under former President Donald Trump — which raised prices on everything from diapers to clothing and furniture — and could opt to remove them altogether, Biden said in addressing the nation from Washington on Tuesday.
 
“We’re looking at what would have the most positive impact,” Biden said, adding that removing the tariffs was currently under discussion.

Having adopted a dynamic zero-COVID strategy to respond to SARS-CoV-2 variants with higher transmissibility since August 2021, China is now considering whether and for how long this policy can remain in place. The debate has thus shifted towards the identification of mitigation strategies for minimizing disruption to the healthcare system in the case of a nationwide epidemic. To this aim, we developed an age-structured stochastic compartmental susceptible-latent-infectious-removed-susceptible (SLIRS) model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission calibrated on the initial growth phase for the 2022 Omicron outbreak in Shanghai, to project COVID-19 burden (i.e., number of cases, patients requiring hospitalization and intensive care, and deaths) under hypothetical mitigation scenarios. The model also considers age-specific vaccine coverage data, vaccine efficacy against different clinical endpoints, waning of immunity, different antiviral therapies, and non-pharmaceutical interventions. We find that the level of immunity induced by the March 2022 vaccination campaign would be insufficient to prevent an Omicron wave that would result in exceeding critical care capacity with a projected intensive care unit peak demand of 15.6-times the existing capacity and causing approximately 1.55 million deaths.

However, we also estimate that protecting vulnerable individuals by ensuring accessibility to vaccines and antiviral therapies, and maintaining implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions could be sufficient to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, suggesting that these factors should be points of emphasis in future mitigation policies.

School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China

However, we also estimate that protecting vulnerable individuals by ensuring accessibility to vaccines and antiviral therapies, and maintaining implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions could be sufficient to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, suggesting that these factors should be points of emphasis in future mitigation policies.

Tesla's China sales dive 98% as lockdowns take a toll
 
Car sales saw a record decline last month in China, the world's largest automobile market, as strict Covid-19 lockdowns take a severe economic toll. And no auto maker suffered more than Tesla.
 
The EV maker sold 1,512 vehicles in mainland China last month, down 98% from March, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association. Tesla's production in the country also slid 81% to 10,757 vehicles in April, compared with 55,462 in March.

American financial services giant J.P. Morgan dropped the Philippines to the bottom of an investment list comprised of its Southeast Asian peers in a new report released during Monday’s presidential elections, which saw Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the namesake son of the late dictator, headed for a landslide win.
J.P. Morgan did not mention Marcos’ name in the May 9 report that flagged rising risks from high public debt and surging inflation – factors it said would slow economic growth and hurt corporate profits.

The Philippine peso is on its way to further weakening as the revving up of the economy amid further re-opening takes its toll on the country’s position in terms of transactions with the rest of the world, particularly on the inflow and outflow of capital.
New York-based GoldmanSachs also said in a commentary that it expects the US dollar to strengthen further over the next three months.