"I'm not saying we need to go that far, but we're a long way from even having some level of compliance around testing and tracing," the former FDA chief told CNBC on Monday.
China's central bank moved to change a rule that means traders will find it cheaper to short the yuan, triggering some weakness in the currency on Monday after months of strengthening.
With no domestic air travel market, Singapore "can't wait around for a vaccine" to revive its aviation sector, said Ong Ye Kung, the country's transport minister.
"So, there's really two recoveries going on — Beijing wants to advertise the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong type of recovery, but that's not most of China," China Beige Book's Leland Miller says.
Investors who have a time horizon beyond two or three months should be "overweight risky assets" such as credit and stocks, says JPMorgan Asset Management's Patrik Schowitz.
The rising debt of Chinese property developers are in the spotlight amid concerns about the liquidity issues at one of the top developers, China's Evergrande.
Stock market analysts in Asia clearly do not agree on who will win the U.S. presidential election. But they're pretty unified on how they plan to play it.
Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington are holding a series of panels on Tuesday with the nation's top health officials as part of a Covid-19 vaccine symposium.
Asia is well placed for economic recovery compared to the rest of the world because it has mostly succeeded in containing the coronavirus, said Andrew Tilton of Goldman Sachs.
"The entire Pacific Rim has less than 1,000 infections a day. Having a raging epidemic is not inevitable," former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.
Malaysia’s debt levels are set to go up, says its finance minister, as the country embarks on measures to support businesses and citizens to deal with the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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