February, 2021

• 27 February

  Covid-19: UAE reports 2,171 new recoveries

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 185,599 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out necessary treatment. ...

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• 27 February

  Eradicating absolute poverty amid Covid-19 to benefit world

  

  BEIJING / WAM The United Arab Emirates Ambassador to China, Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri, has praised China’s achievements of eradicating absolute poverty despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The achievements showed the country’s high-standard planning, and will have ripple effect globally and benefit the whole world, the ambassador told Xinhua, the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China, in ...

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• 27 February

  Senior citizens vaccination drive continues its success

  

  Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Community Development (MoCD), in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP), continued to carry out the vaccination campaign for senior citizens which was launched last January against Covid-19 all over the UAE. Till February 27, the campaign included Ajman, Dubai, Al Fujairah, Um Al Qaiwain and Ras Al Khaimah. The vaccination campaign ...

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• 27 February

  ADJD stepping up efforts in combating human trafficking

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has stepped up its efforts in the fight to combat human trafficking throughout 2021, against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, by organising numerous training courses on this topic, with the aim of building the capacity of the judiciary members, officers of the court and all parties involved in the ...

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• 27 February

  Dubai Customs dealt with 13.4mn items of baggage

  

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs plays an essential role in facilitating passenger and baggage traffic in general, with more efforts and measures taken during the spread of the pandemic. These extraordinary efforts stand behind the success of Dubai International Airport globally and boost the status of Dubai as a global hub for travel and tourism. Latest figures showed that Dubai ...

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• 27 February

  ByteDance to boost its business with new hires

  

  Bloomberg Chinese social media titan ByteDance Ltd plans to hire an additional 13,000 employees this year for its education unit as the company aims to grab a bigger slice of the country’s booming online learning market. ByteDance, the owner of the short video app TikTok, said that it will hire 10,000 educational professionals, including tutors and course designers, in China ...

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• 27 February

  European Union is out of Covid-19 vaccine excuses

  

  The European Union has had a dire Covid-19 vaccination campaign so far, and there’s been plenty of buck-passing as a result. Slow regulatory approvals, contractual spats with drugmakers and doubts over vaccine efficacy have all been blamed. But the bloc is running out of excuses, and its leaders know it. The big issues look fixable, but the pace remains slow. ...

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• 27 February

  Etsy is no pandemic flash in the pan

  

  If it wasn’t clear already, it ought to be now: Etsy Inc is more than just a stay-at-home stock. The website for handmade goods became a go-to destination for face masks early in the pandemic thanks to quick pivots by its independent sellers to making this new necessity. That helped spark a rally in its shares that made it one ...

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• 27 February

  Covid proves value of raising minimum wage

  Most Republicans in Congress perennially resist increasing the minimum wage, citing economists who say businesses would have to eliminate workers and raise prices. That would stoke inflation and undermine the economy, they say. But if there was ever a period testing those assumptions and showing why raising the federal hourly wage gradually to $15 (as President Joe Biden proposes) would ...

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• 27 February

  Chip shortage exposes supply chain problems

  Hoping to address supply-chain disruptions following the pandemic, President Joe Biden ordered a wide-ranging review of US reliance on foreign sources for critical goods such as pharmaceuticals, rare-earth metals and high-capacity batteries. On the most urgent matter — a shortage of semiconductors that has upended production at American automakers — he needs to think bigger. Last spring, car sales collapsed ...

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