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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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New Wave of Outbreaks Biggest G20 Economic Risk

French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, wearing a face mask, leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sept 16, 2020. (AFP Photo)

The single biggest risk to major economies at the moment is a new wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting with his G20 counterparts in Venice, Reuters reported.

"We have very good economic forecasts for the G20 economies and the single hurdle on the way to a quick, solid economic rebound is the risk of having a new wave" of outbreaks, Le Maire told journalists.

"We all have to improve our vaccination performance everywhere around the world," he added.

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