Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 298,919 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) announced the deployment of 126 public buses “Expo Rider” to serve Expo 2020 Dubai visitors for free from nine locations across Dubai. Additionally, the RTA will launch two routes for Expo visitors from hotels directly to the site. The RTA will also deploy buses within the Expo from the parking area ...

Vienna / WAM Sarah Falaknaz, Head of the UAE-EU Parliamentary Friendship Committee Group, explored with Hans Nissl, Head of the Austrian-Emirati Friendship Society in Vienna, the prospects of cementing parliamentary cooperation between the Federal National Council and Austria’s National Council. The two sides underlined the importance of accelerating the exchange of expertise and transfer of knowledge as well exchanging views ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dr Muhammed El-Nahhas, CEO and Chairman of Board of Directors of MenaLabs – Clinical Pathology Services in Dubai, confirmed that MenaLabs laboratories has the ability to perform 3,500 distinct tests, and that more than 2,000 various tests are performed daily in all different types of laboratory and genetic tests. Dr Muhammed El-Nahhas has argued that PCR ...

In the wake of President Joe Biden’s announcement of new, more aggressive tactics against the Covid-19 pandemic, including expanded vaccine mandates, some of those who support vaccination are worried that it could all backfire. National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar put it this way: “Unfortunate consequence of this speech — by forcing American vaccine holdouts to choose between vaccine and job — ...

It takes gumption to reject a takeover approach from a rival and announce a potentially very dilutive capital hike on the same day. British low-cost airline EasyJet Plc asked shareholders to pony up 1.2 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) via a fully underwritten rights offer to help pay down debt and seize growth opportunities presented by the pandemic. It also revealed ...

Coinbase Global Inc boss Brian Armstrong has long believed that the adoption of digital currencies like Bitcoin would resemble a straight arrow towards progress — much like the internet’s development from a web of interlinked computers to a whole economy of applications and businesses. Yet his angry tweet storm against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), after its behind-the-scenes ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s bet that adoring crowds on Independence Day would help him out of a tough spot didn’t quite go to plan. Tens of thousands did turn out in Sao Paulo and elsewhere, decked in the green-and-yellow flag. He responded with now-familiar attacks on the electoral system, his opponents and the Supreme Court, vowing he would never go ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE is getting a potential boost from Hungarian discount carrier Wizz Air Holdings Plc’s ambitious plan to catapult itself out of the pandemic ahead of rivals. The Budapest-based airline is weighing a purchase of at least 100 Airbus narrow-body jets, according to people familiar with the discussions. Such a deal would top up one of the largest-ever aircraft ...

Bloomberg IndiGo, one of Asia’s biggest budget airlines, is aiming at running at full capacity domestically and is targeting just over two-thirds in international routes as the virus pandemic eases and people start traveling more. “Things are improving slowly,” CEO Ronojoy Dutta told Bloomberg Television’s Rishaad Salamat and Haslinda Amin, adding that it was “hard not to be bullish as ...