The European Union has demanded millions of euros in penalties from AstraZeneca Plc if the company is unable to meet an urgent order for more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine as the bloc renewed its criticism of the British company over its vaccine supply “failure”. This is also the latest round of a bitter legal…
A new research has found that carbon emissions in China is being pushed to record highs with the country’s strategy to get out of the pandemic induced slowdown by boosting the construction sector of the country. A report from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) stated that in the first quarter…
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the COVAX dose-sharing facility, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the Covid-19 vaccines have remained out of the reach of the poorest countries of the world. Inequities in vaccine distribution have been repeatedly denounced by the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and gave…
Reports emerging from the United Kingdom have claimed that Liberty Steel is being sued by its rival Tata Steels over claims of unpaid debts, according to a report. According to a report published by the Daily Telegraph, the case and the claim is linked to the payments from Liberty’s flagship £100m takeover of Tata’s speciality…
In the wake of the coup in Myanmar in February, a review of how it would bring to an end a joint venture in the country with a company that is controlled by the military there is being conducted by South Korean steel making giant POSCO, said a report from the news agency Reuters quoting…
Thailand will consider as its “principal vaccine” against Covid-19 the coronavirus shot developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford with this Asian country trying to reopen and revive its tourism industry which is a crucial one for the country, said the country’s public health minister in an interview to a television channel. There were…
Officials of the European Union have said that citizens across the EU should be given a digital certificate “without discrimination” is that it is possible to kick-start foreign travel. The target of this move is to allow anyone who has been vaccinated against the Covid-19 disease or who has in possession a recent negative Covid-19…
Following the attempt by the Indian government to pressurize Twitter to take down accounts it deemed incendiary, strict new rules for Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have been issued by the government. According to the new regulations, the government expects social media companies to create three new job profiles for their operation in…
Italy has reportedly blocked a shipment of the AstraZeneca-Oxford’s Cvoid-19 vaccine to Australia on Thursday marking the first intervention by the European Union into the supply of coronavirus vaccines, claimed a report by Reuters. Permission to ship around 250,000 doses of the vaccine from its Anagni, Italy, plant was made by the British pharma giant…
Following a truce with the Australian government over a tussle related to the new content law being brought in the country, an investment of at least $1 billion in the news industry in the country over a period of the next three years would be made by the social media company Facebook. The largest social…
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