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In a significant breakthrough in the war supply effort, US and Germany near diplomatic agreement to send battle tanks to Ukraine. Japan cut its view on the overall economy for the first time in 11 months in January, citing sagging exports. Strikes over pay at Germany’s BER airport in the capital Berlin shut down air traffic today. Analysis: State of the Virus: Annual Shots and Endemic COVID.

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A rundown of important global risk developments in markets, in business, and region by region.

Analysis: State of the Virus: Annual Shots and Endemic COVID

Almost three years after the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in the US, the character of the pandemic and the public mood has changed drastically. While new variants proliferate and the virus remains a public health challenge, most signs point toward the coronavirus quickly becoming endemic, with an expected winter surge mostly failing to materialize.

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