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The country’s GDP was up 7.7% in the third quarter from the second. Economist Ecio de Farias Costa, a professor at UFPE, ran a study which shows how the aid package in response to Covid-19 played a part in that, particularly in industry.

Soraya Smaili is the first woman ever to be president of the Federal University of São Paulo. Her many achievements include research, fighting the coronavirus, Oxford Vaccine testing, and bringing democracy and transparency to public universities. She’s also the founder of the Institute of Arab Culture.

The United Arab Emirates performed the best out of all Arab countries when it came to addressing the crisis wrought by the novel coronavirus, according to the COVID Economic Recovery Index from the Horizon Research Group.

The African continent has stood out with low coronavirus infection and death rates than elsewhere in the world. Possible reasons include a young population, carryover immunity from other diseases and lower international travel rates.