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Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched a webpage, on its website, to appeal to the private sector to support its fight against coronavirus and contribute to The Community Solidarity Fund against Covid-19. The new webpage, which was developed shortly after the launch of the initiative, contains all the information regarding how private sector can ...

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 ...

Bloomberg Iraqi intelligence chief Mustafa Al-Kadhimi was picked to form a government, as the country sought to end months of damaging political deadlock with the slump in oil prices and coronavirus outbreak adding to a list of urgent challenges. President Barham Salih turned to Al-Kadhimi after major Shiite parties blocked his previous choice for prime minister — former Najaf governor ...

Bloomberg India has further tightened lockdown measures and enhanced surveillance at hundreds of areas designated as virus hotspots, as PM Narendra Modi described the epidemic as a “social emergency.” Authorities have sealed settlements, lanes and apartment complexes in the financial capital of Mumbai, as well as in Delhi and the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh, allowing in only medical services, ...

Bloomberg Every night at 8 pm, Spaniards head to their balconies and windows to clap for the healthcare workers risking their lives to save others from the coronavirus pandemic. An hour later, there’s a second wave of noise in some neighbourhoods as people come out with pots and pans. This time it’s not in praise, but in protest at the ...

Congress is already considering another coronavirus relief bill, its third, and it probably won’t be the last — nor should it be. But as Washington continues to address the economic fallout from efforts to suppress the pandemic, it needs to think more carefully about both incentives and operational details. To be clear, Congress was right to act to swiftly to ...

Before the pandemic, 100,000 seafarers travelled in and out of the world’s ports every month. Some had spent weeks or months aboard the cargo ships, tankers and other merchant vessels that are essential to moving products and commodities across the globe. In a ritual little noticed outside the industry, new crews would regularly arrive to relieve them, ensuring that the ...

The economic fallout for Italy from Covid-19 is going to hammer its already precarious government finances. The country’s 1.7 trillion-euro ($1.9 trillion) debt mountain is the largest in Europe, and there will no doubt be a substantial jump in its ratio of debt to gross domestic product from 135% to beyond 150%. Nevertheless, Rome’s ability to manage its borrowings may ...