US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday warned of the risk of a permanence divergence in the global economy in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and urged major economies to inject significant new fiscal support to secure a robust recovery.

A left-wing party that opposes a large rare earth mining project in Greenland has become the biggest in parliament after securing more than a third of votes in a snap election on Tuesday, news wires reported. The Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party got 37%, compared to 26% in the last election four years ago, overtaking the ruling social democratic Siumut party which secured 29% of votes, according to official results.

Brazil registered over 4,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday alone, as the epidemic turns into what one expert calls a “biological Fukushima”, news wires reported. The exponential surge in the Latin American country is set to surpass the numbers seen within the US in January, when almost 80,000 people died from the disease.

US may not need any vaccines from AstraZeneca even if it wins license, Reuters reported quoting senior health officials. The jab still has not seen green light for usage in US, but latest developments over output quality control and doubts in data, provided by AstraZeneca may lead to scrapping any potential order for US.

An unemployed drug addict rammed his car in a police barricade outside the US Capitol Hill killing one police officer and wounding another, AP reported. The attacker came out of the vehicle waiving a knife. He was shot down by the other police officers. The authorities found no terrorist motives in the actions of the attacker. The Capitol Hill has been in top security mode after supporters of then outgoing President Donald Trump rioted the building of the US Congress.

The fast Covid-19 rollout and government stimulus packages untied the hands of US employers in March, Reuters reported. Official figures show robust growth in demand for workforce.

The popular US carmaker Ford announced it had decided to resume its policy to finance political parties and politicians, Reuters reported. Ford will not rule out donations to those lawmakers who voted on 6 January against certifying President Joe Biden’s election win.

One of the producers of Covid-19 vaccines Johnson and Johnson has announced it would dump a large volume of jabs due to registered poor manufacturing quality caused by personnel with no adequate training, AP reported. The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard an unknown amount of its coronavirus vaccine has a series of citations from US FDA for quality control problems.

Brazil has made hard efforts to ease mounting pressure on president Jair Bolsonaro by appointing new chiefs for key army command posts, Reuters reported. The country sank in unprecedented political crisis as Bolsonaro tried to intervene in the army command and key figures resigned. Bolsonaro is one of the biggest Covid-19 skeptics which lead to devastating results for Brazil. The country is unanimous leader as far as death toll from the virus is concerned.

The US president Joe Biden plans to launch a massive plan to restore economy by placing emphasis on infrastructure development, Reuters reported. The White House administration intends to shift the focus on required funds origin from ordinary drivers and common tax payers to big and wealthy corporations.