OTTAWA: Canada is planning for a “reasonable worst case scenario” in which new waves of the coronavirus would intermittently swamp the public health system and send the death toll soaring, officials said on Friday (Aug 14). Under the scenario, there would be a large peak later this year followed by […]
Year: 2020
NEW YORK: The United States is tying payments for COVID-19 vaccines to timing milestones for production and approval, according to public documents and a Trump administration official, putting pressure on drugmakers including Moderna to meet ambitious targets. In a deal with Moderna announced this week, federal agencies negotiated a sliding […]
BRACKLEY, United Kingdom: Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff cast fresh doubt on his future on Friday (Aug 14) while signalling that the champions were now prepared to sign a new deal with commercial rights holders Liberty Media. The Austrian had said at Silverstone last week that Mercedes were not […]
Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton went fastest in a searingly hot second practice for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday with Mercedes again dominant after losing out to Red Bull last weekend. BARCELONA: Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton went fastest in a searingly hot second practice for the Spanish Grand […]
Online retail giant Amazon has launched an internet pharmacy in India, marking its entry into the country’s online medicine market. Amazon Pharmacy will make its debut in Bangalore and it may be trialled in other Indian cities. The move comes as the online drugs business has been given a major […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong cut its economic outlook for the year on Friday (Aug 14), saying a recovery from recession depended on how fast it can get a new wave of coronavirus infections under control. The territory’s government revised its full year gross domestic product forecast to a contraction of […]
SHANGHAI: Chinese shoppers on Friday (Aug 14) expressed dismay at news that traces of the coronavirus had been found on imported frozen food, with some saying they would avoid the products. Two cities in China on Thursday found the virus in frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil and shrimp from […]
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has in recent weeks delayed approvals for mobile phone components and televisions of Chinese companies Chinese firms like Xiaomi are facing delays getting approvals from India’s quality control agency for their goods, five industry sources told Reuters, as the business environment deteriorates after a […]
BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday (Aug 11) angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie”, despite data produced by his own government showing that thousands of fires are surging across the region. Bolsonaro last year similarly denied a spike in fires that […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand officials are investigating the possibility that its first Covid-19 cases in more than three months were imported by freight, as the country plunged back into lockdown today. The discovery of four infected family members in Auckland led Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to swiftly reimpose tight restrictions on […]