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SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) shut down a number of pharmacies across the emirate for raising the price of goods, violating measures undertaken under adopted consumer laws. According to SEDD’s Commercial Control and Protection Department, the pharmacies were given violation notices are placed on warning, after the department had received complaints about price hikes on face ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has instructed the Department of Health- Abu Dhabi to set up drive-through centres across the UAE to test for Coronavirus (Covid-19) following the launch of the first such centre in Abu Dhabi. Over the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has announced that the first remote litigation hearings using the video-conferencing technology took place on Monday, where the Commercial Summary Matters Court examined 4 urgent commercial cases in the presence of all parties. This move, the ADJD said, is part of the telecommuting and business continuity plan adopted by the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), held a joint meeting with the Emirates Scientists Council, to discuss ways of employing scientific research to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). The meeting was attended by Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and President of the Emirates Scientists Council, Saif ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Chamber announced the addition of more e-services to its digital platform, including attesting documents electronically, and annulling e-services subscription fees in support of its digital approach. The new services come within the government’s campaign “Stay at Home”, a press release issued by Abu Dhabi Chamber said on Monday. The initiative is also in ...

Bloomberg All it might take to shut down the mighty economic engine of Tokyo is a few dozen more mystery cases or a jump in infections into the hundreds rather than the thousands seen elsewhere in the world. Japan has remained relatively free of the pandemic that has turned New York into a ghost town and shuttered economies in Europe, ...

Bloomberg Just two weeks after South Korea adopted one extra budget, President Moon Jae-in said another is already being planned to help insulate households against the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The budget would provide payments to families below the top 30 percentile of income, with some four-person households getting about 1 million won ($815), Moon said on Monday at ...

Bloomberg The Philippines identified additional measures to ensure sufficient food supply amid a month-long lockdown of the country’s main island of Luzon as it tries to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. The government plans to import 300,000 metric tons of rice, if necessary, through state deals with Southeast Asian partners, or through sources such as India and Pakistan, ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp and other Japanese automakers reported steep drops in output in February as the coronavirus outbreak accelerated across the world, a sign that business conditions will get worse for them before any improvement. Japan’s biggest automaker reported that its global production fell 13.8% in February from a year earlier. Worldwide production for the Toyota Group, which includes ...

Bloomberg It’s the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed. That outbreak ultimately infected more than 31,000 people and killed nearly 2,000, as many died waiting for treatment. With the far ...