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As Covid-19 continues to devastate the global economy, DBS Research analyst Yeo Kee Yan and his team have placed their hopes for economic recovery on the successful development of a viable vaccine. With 38 candidates now undergoing clinical evaluations, one or more positive outcomes will be the spark that will fuel ailing economies, they write in a report dated Oct 6.
“Nine months after the first Covid-19 cluster surfaced in China, the world is no closer to containing the pandemic. There are now more than 32 million confirmed cases globally and the figure is rising at a rate of 200,000 to 350,000 new cases per day,” says the team. Six months on from the “great Covid-19 pandemic panic”, how countries manage the virus continues to be a key driver for stock performances today.
