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 ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, ADAFSA, has launched the “Agricultural Registry” project to build an accurate and comprehensive database for the agricultural sector in the Abu Dhabi Emirate. It will help estimate local production, update farm and farm owners’ data, and link such data directly to the databases of Abu Dhabi Digital Authority ...

DUBAI / WAM As part of the economic stimulus package announced by the Government of Dubai to alleviate the burden on businesses and help them navigate the challenges of Covid-19 pandemic, Dubai Customs launched an initiative offering 80 percent discount on fines for customs cases and violations detected or committed before March 31, 2020. The decision applies to uncollected customs ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has on Wednesday announced that Utico FZC is the Preferred Bidder to build and operate the 120 million gallons per day, MIGD, Hassyan Sea Water Reverse Osmosis, SWRO, Plant, under the IWP model. DEWA has achieved a new world record, for the lowest levelised water tariff of $0.277 per cubic metre. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) on Wednesday announced the opening of its organic waste composting unit in Abu Dhabi as part of the Center’s plan to encourage both corporate and individual involvement in reducing organic waste. Opened in the presence of Dr Salem Al Kaabi, Director General of Tadweer, and senior officials from the relevant ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abdulhamid M Saeed Alahmadi, Governor of the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), on Wednesday inaugurated the Government FinTech Forum which took place as part of the FinTech Abu Dhabi Festival 2020, held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, and co-hosted by CBUAE and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Finance (MoF) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Secretariat General of the GCC, to establish joint programmes and initiatives in the financial and economic sectors, and to implement them as part of the GCC pavilion during Dubai Expo 2020. The singing took place alongside a meeting with Younis Haji Al Khoori, ...

DUBAI / WAM ADNOC Distribution, the UAE’s largest fuel and convenience retailer, has launched its first ‘ADNOC On the go’ station in the Al Yufra area. The opening marks the company’s 20th location to open in Dubai, with another 6-11 new stations expected to open in the emirate by the end of the year. The ambitious rollout has already seen ...