US trade Representative Katherine Tai on Friday virtually met World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to discuss increasing vaccine production and the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver on Covid-19 vaccines for the pandemic.According to a readout from her office, Tai explained the Biden-Harris administration’s support for the waiver of intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines and explained that this fits the United States’ comprehensive effort to expand vaccine manufacturing and distribution around the world.Also Read | ‘India’s Covid-19 situation hugely concerning’: WHO chiefShe also asked Ghebreyesus for his views on the immediate steps to collectively…
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China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported that the tornado hit Wuhan at about 8:40 p.m. It toppled construction site sheds and snapped several trees, Xinhua said, citing a local government. AP | | Posted by Harshit Sabarwal, Beijing PUBLISHED ON MAY 15, 2021 05:56 AM IST Two tornadoes have killed at least seven people in China and left more than 200 others injured.The Wuhan city government on Saturday said that six people had died and 218 were injured after a Friday night tornado.State media said one person died and 21 were injured in another tornado in Jiangsu province.China’s official Xinhua…
Coinbase has finally allowed Dogecoin ($DOGE) in on its platform, listing the meme cryptocurrency available for trading and other transactions including buying and selling after months of requests from interested users. The meme cryptocurrency is one of the top blockchains in the world, making up massive volumes on the platform it is present in. The popular cryptocurrency exchange platform from CEO and Founder Brian Armstrong has caved in for Dogecoin, and it finally listed the cryptocurrency on its platform shortly after going public months ago. The company’s IPO (initial public offering) has been the top talks leading to its launch…
India’s Covid-19 situation remains hugely concerning, with several states continuing to see a worrying number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, warning that the pandemic’s second year will be “far more deadly” than the first for the world.Ghebreyesus added that the WHO is responding to the Covid-19 surge in India and has shipped thousands of oxygen concentrators, tents for mobile field hospitals, masks and other medical supplies.”India remains hugely concerning, with several states continuing to see a worrying number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths,” he said at the daily media briefing.Click here for…
Israel faced a widening conflict on Friday, as deadly violence escalated across the West Bank amid a massive aerial bombardment in Gaza and unprecedented unrest among Arabs and Jews inside the country.The West Bank clashes, described as among the most intense since the second intifada that began in 2000, left 10 people dead from Israeli fire, the Palestinian health ministry said, as overall fatalities from strikes on Gaza rose to 122.Palestinian armed groups in the enclave have launched more than 1,800 rockets at Israel since Monday, killing nine people, with sirens wailing across the country throughout the week.The Israeli army…
Venmo has been exposed for its security flaws and issues as President of the United States (POTUS), Joe Biden’s account was traced by BuzzFeed News in under 10 minutes within the payment application. This exposure is to prove a point, and it is the safety of people within Paypal’s mobile payment system which can also reflect one’s friends or contact list. (Photo : David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 20: A person watches Joe Biden sworn in as 46th President Of The United States on their cell phone on January 20, 2021 in New York, United States. U.S.…
President Joe Biden has appointed longtime Democratic policy aide Neera Tanden as a senior White House adviser after her earlier nomination for budget director was scuttled by Senate opposition.Tanden’s role will include planning for potential health policy changes if Republicans succeed in their efforts to strike down the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court, according to a White House official who requested anonymity to discuss the job before it was formally announced. Tanden will also be involved in a review of the US Digital Service, a technology unit that works out of the White House, the official added.The post,…
Israel pounded Gaza for a fifth day with land and air attacks on Hamas fighters, who returned rocket fire while 10 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces as unrest spread to the West Bank.Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops in the West Bank, adding to the toll in the eruption of fighting. Israel has struck hundreds of military targets in Gaza, while militants in the impoverished coastal strip have fired more than 2,000 rockets at Israel since Monday, Israel’s army said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that an extended campaign was in the offing,…
The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and the theory that it was caused by a laboratory leak needs to be taken seriously until there is a rigorous data-led investigation that proves it wrong, a group of leading scientists said.Covid-19, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed 3.34 million people, cost the world trillions of dollars in lost income and upended normal life for billions of people.”More investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic,” said the 18 scientists, including Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, and Jesse Bloom,…
(Photo : Why and How Fire Watch Guards Is Essential To Your Business) When it comes to protecting your business location, one of the things you must have is a fire safety system. It is these systems that sound the alarm in the event of a fire and then turn on the sprinklers before the fire takes hold, but what do you do if your fire system doesn’t work? Like all things electric, you can’t be sure that they will work 100% of the time. So, what do you do when your system fails? Well, this is where fire watch…