ABU DHABI / WAM Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) and its subsidiaries announced the completion of more than 1.1 million digital transactions during the first quarter of this year, which represents 84% of its total transactions for the period. The three municipalities under the department’s umbrella achieved more than 223,000 digital transactions (93% of their total transactions) during Q1 ...

Bloomberg The US and China should work together to show “honest leadership” or risk transforming the pandemic into a bigger crisis, the head of the World Health Organization said in unusually stern comments on the two superpowers. At the height of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union still came together to fight and eradicate smallpox, Director-General Tedros ...

Bloomberg Medical device makers and scientists around the world are waiving their intellectual property rights to encourage companies to restore depleted stockpiles of emergency equipment and develop new tests and treatments for the Covid-19 pandemic. But it might not be enough. Some researchers and lawmakers are calling on President Donald Trump to follow the lead of Germany in restricting patent ...