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World Coronavirus Dipatch: Does Sweden offer an example or a warning?

While companies in UK delay investing workers' pension contributions, US Postal warns there may be mass delays in processing mail-in ballots

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New Zealand on Saturday reported seven new cases of the coronavirus as a lockdown in the country’s biggest city, Auckland, was extended on Friday

Yuvraj Malik
Many UK companies delay investing workers’ pension contributions: A FT survey of pension companies uncovered a spike in employers missing payment deadlines. Nearly one in ten of the 20,000 employers on Royal London’s pension book had missed the deadline since March, putting themselves at risk of a fine or court action by the regulator. Read more here 

Let’s look at the global statistics:                  

Total Confirmed Cases: 2,11,63,347

Change Over Yesterday: 2,38,744

Total Deaths: 7,64,744

Total Recovered: 1,32,79,850

Nations hit with most cases: US (53,13,454), Brazil (32,26,443), India (25,25,922), Russia