ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi’s Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee for Covid-19 pandemic has approved special measures for participants in the Phase III clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine or the National Vaccination Programme for emergency use. The special measures apply to participants in the vaccine trial immediately after their first dose. They apply to participants in the National ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates has announced it completed an intensive programme to clear its backlog of refund requests which was caused by pandemic-related travel disruption. Over the seven-month period starting April, Emirates received, validated and processed nearly 1.7 million refund requests. This resulted in the airline returning AED6.3 billion refunds to its customers. Of this sum, AED4.7 billion was refunded ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, Minister of State for Defence Affairs, and Yousef Mohammed Ali, Director of the President’s Office and Acting Minister of Defence of the Union of the Comoros, on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), via video conferencing, on joint cooperation in the defence and military fields. Al Bawardi said that the ...