Dubai / WAM The Dubai Police have started using drones to ensure full compliance with decisions and disseminate the critical message of avoiding public spaces and vacating shores as a precautionary measure to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus (Covid-19). Colonel Saeed Al Madhani, Director of Ports Police Station in Dubai, stressed the Dubai Police’s HQ keenness to utilise the ...

Bloomberg Companies in India are scrambling to ensure that the millions who staff the back offices of Wall Street banks and take on work outsourced by firms from airlines to insurers can keep going as the nation mandates increased work from home amid a spike in coronavirus cases. UBS Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG and other global giants are working ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha said a state of emergency will be declared for a month from March 26 as the government steps up efforts to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak. The premier made the announcement on Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting in Bangkok. The decree will give him broad powers to impose further curbs on every-day life, under ...

Bloomberg India will have enough grain stockpiles to feed its poor for at least a year-and-a-half as reserves are likely to further balloon after record harvests in the South Asian nation that has been locked down to check the spread of the coronavirus. There will be no food shortage in the second-most populous country, DV Prasad, chairman of state-run Food ...

Bloomberg China’s Hubei province said it will allow transportation to resume for the city of Wuhan on April 8, effectively lifting a mass quarantine over the city where the coronavirus first emerged last December. People in Wuhan will be allowed to leave the city and Hubei province, according to a statement on the provincial government’s website on Tuesday. The easing ...

Bloomberg About a 40-minute drive to the east of China’s capital, Beijing Aeonmed Co has been working around the clock since January 20. After meeting the country’s needs two weeks ago, its factory lines have been working flat out on orders from overseas for its lifesaving ventilators. With three shifts and even research and development staff working the production line, ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection to the deadliest wildfire in California history. The bankrupt utility will pay $4 million in fines for its role in the 2018 Camp Fire, which was sparked by PG&E power lines, according to a statement Monday. The blaze killed 85 people in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada ...

Bloomberg The world’s biggest carbon market is joining the long list of victims of the economic fallout from the coronavirus. The price of certificates allowing companies to emit carbon dioxide in the European Union (EU) has crashed by 40% so far this year, including two drops of more than 10% in the past week. That has erased two years of ...

Bloomberg The leading US solar-trade group warns fallout from the coronavirus could slash the industry’s workforce in half. The Solar Energy Industries Association made the projection on March 23 as part of a campaign to convince Congress to make the federal tax credit for the sector refundable or payable directly to businesses and customers. “As the stock market tanks, tax-equity ...

Bloomberg Household electricity bills are set to soar, thanks to the millions of people now working at home to avoid catching the coronavirus. Running laptops and other home appliances will cost consumers an extra 52 million pounds ($60 million) each week in the UK, according to a study from Uswitch, a website that helps consumers compare the energy prices that ...