The worldwide worry over coronavirus creates a glimmer of good news for at least one segment of the US population: the top 0.1pc.
When will there be a vaccine or a treatment for Covid-19?
It is the kind of quiet little Aegean village that summer visitors might dream of during the long winter nights.
Day One: Covid-19 cases: 1, All Ireland: 2. Sunday morning in Dublin. A schoolboy is in isolation in a city hospital, the morning after he was confirmed as the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland.
Combilift, the Co Monaghan-based forklift manufacturer, has had to delay the sale of 10 vehicles to a client in China after choosing not to invite Chinese authorities to test its factory due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The number of people in France diagnosed with Covid-19 jumped by 336 to 949 yesterday - the biggest daily increase France has seen. Another seven people died, taking the total to 16. Most have been over 70 years old.
My apologies for stating the obvious, but it wouldn't do us any harm at all to have a government, right now.