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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 291,676 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a contract for improving and widening Saih Al Dahal Road, which connects with Saih Al Salam Road and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The existing single-carriageway road will be replaced by a dual carriageway extending 11 kilometres (km). “The project will increase the street capacity from ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Under the directives of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Adafsa), the Authority has signed an agreement with Rabdan Academy aimed at providing advisory services and developing training for the Alternative ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Saturday with Clalit Health Services, the largest health maintenance organisation in Israel and second largest globally. The MoU aims to pave the way for further cooperation between the two countries ...

ABU DHABI / WAM In yet another global milestone, Etisalat on Wednesday announced its foray into the next generation of the mobile network with considerable efforts towards 6G realisation, conducting research and developing international standards, the main building blocks for the 6G ecosystem. Haitham Abdulazzak, Chief Technology Officer at Etisalat, shared these insights during his address at the session titled ...

Geneva / WAM The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on tourism could result in a more than $4 trillion loss to the global economy, UN trade and development body UNCTAD said on Wednesday in a report issued jointly with the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). The estimate is based on losses caused by the pandemic’s direct impact on tourism and ...

Dubai / WAM The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, on Wednesday released the first global images of Mars in the far-ultraviolet, providing new insights into the discrete aurora phenomenon in Mars’ nightside atmosphere. The images have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the interactions between solar radiation, Mars’ magnetic fields and the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Israel-UAE bilateral trade has reached over AED2.48 billion ($675.22 million), within ten months of signing the Abraham Accords in September 2020, according to Israel’s top diplomat. In an exclusive interview with Emirates News Agency (WAM), Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said, “It is estimated that the bilateral trade potential will multiply many times over in the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Bpifrance, the French national investment bank, and Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a new co-investment partnership dedicated to African private equity. The two companies will aim to deploy up to EUR 350 million through fund and direct investments in private equity and venture capital, with a ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial enabler of the country’s economic diversification and industrial transformation agenda, has entered into a Memoradum of Understanding (MoU) with First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions, on Credit Guarantee and Co-lending programs for SMEs in the ...