The head of Nigeria’s election commission apologized for delays. Caused by security services’ suggestions for protection of people and property. The Inec boss claimed that three of them had been recovered. The head of Nigeria‘s election commission has apologized for the delays voters in various regions of the nation have encountered. In the central collation … Read more
At Farnborough, Delta purchases Boeing and Airbus jets. The expo outside of London will display billions of dollars in aircraft trades. Delta is poised to acquire 130 Boeing 737 Max 10 jetliners. Orders for Boeing Co. and Airbus SE jets from Farnborough International Airshow opener Delta Air Lines Inc. have prompted sales teams from competing … Read more
US stocks on Wall Street started the month of June on a positive note. Salesforce shares soared more than 13% after the software giant. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1 percent at 33,034.24 in early trading. US stocks on Wall Street started the month of June on a high note Wednesday, rising early … Read more
Delta Air Lines supplies an upbeat outlook for the summer journey season on Wednesday, saying robust demand is presenting enough costing strength to make up for hovering gasoline rates. Shares gone up at the file and outlook, with Delta reporting a smaller than expected loss within the first region, even because it contended with a … Read more
NEW DELHI – The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has accounted for more deaths than the Delta variant in the United States, an Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI) reported. The ANI, quoting a local U.S. daily, The Seattle Times, reported that since Nov. 24 last year, when South Africa first reported the Omicron variant … Read more
MANILA: The Philippines is now at “low risk” from the coronavirus pandemic as more people get vaccinated and hospital admissions drop, President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman said Tuesday. The country last week reopened to foreign tourists for the first time in two years, though some health restrictions remain as campaigning for the May 9 elections starts, … Read more
PARIS, Dec 4, 2021 (AFP) – No one knows how effective vaccines will be in stopping people catching the newly discovered and fast-spreading Omicron variant of Covid-19 or how well they will protect against severe illness. Lab tests are underway to determine vaccine efficacy against Omicron with results expected within weeks. In the meantime, the Delta … Read more
DUBAI: Dubai’s economy is rebounding faster-than-expected, as property sales are rising and restaurants are busy, at a time when Europe is experiencing a surge in the Covid cases and tightening restrictions again, Bloomberg reported “The recovery has been faster than we expected,” said Scott Livermore, chief economist for Oxford Economics Middle East in Dubai. “Expo has played … Read more
NEW DELHI: India administered its one billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose on Thursday as it fights its way back from a devastating surge in cases that brought the health system close to collapse. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the feat as a “triumph of Indian science”, but authorities remain on guard for a new pandemic wave. … Read more
Images from Mars reveal how water helped shape the Red Planet’s landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life, a study said Thursday. In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta … Read more
MOSCOW: Russia on Friday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll following a spurt in cases linked to the Delta variant and a lacklustre vaccination drive. A government tally reported 828 fatalities over the past 24 hours a day after Russia matched its previous record of 820. The new figures bring Russia’s total deaths from … Read more
Airlines in both the United States and Europe are making changes and canceling flights in response to European Union proposals regarding new, more severe travel regulations for Americans. Last week, the EU said that it will recommend that the United States be removed from its 27-country “safe list” for accepting foreign tourists. The announcement was … Read more
NEW DELHI: India may be entering an endemic stage of the Covid-19 pandemic where there is a low or moderate level of transmission going on, said WHO Chief Scientist, Soumya Swaminathan. Swaminathan made the comments in an interview with a local news portal The Wire on Tuesday. “We may be entering some kind of stage … Read more
UNITED NATIONS: Variants like Delta, which was first found in India, are “currently winning the race against vaccines”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief said, pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution. “That passing the four millionth recorded death worldwide from Covid-19 was a tragic milestone, which is likely … Read more
Australia reported a slight increase in the COVID-19 cases on Tuesday in its most populous state, New South Wales (NSW). The rise was due to the Delta variant of the virus. To contain flare-ups of the extremely infectious Delta form, officials tightened restrictions and pushed for vaccinations. Since the first case of the Delta variant … Read more
Indonesia passes two million coronavirus cases since the pandemic broke out. The hospitals have been flooding with new patients. The unwanted milestone was hit when the case rates spiked up by times two. The authorities said this might be because of highly infectious COVID-19 variants. On Monday, Indonesia recorded 14,536 new cases, taking total cases … Read more
