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United affords flight attendants, pilots pay additional for proof of Covid vaccination
A United Airlines passenger jet lands at Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, USA on December 6, 2019.Chris Helgren | ReutersUnited Airlines is offering new incentives to flight attendants and pilots who demonstrate evidence…
Biden Covid crew holds briefing as U.S. doubles down on vaccine efforts
President Joe Biden's Covid-19 response team is holding a news briefing Thursday on the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 33.3 million Americans and killed at least 595,849 people.On Wednesday,…
Outlook for April-June quarter GDP amid Covid
Crowds of people are seen shopping during a weekly market at Kandivali.SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesIndia is expected to see double-digit expansion in the three months ending in June — but economists warn that the data won't be…
Asia’s finest and worst inventory markets battle Covid in Could: India, Vietnam, Taiwan
Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India on Thursday, January 21, 2021.Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIndia stocks were among the top performing markets in Asia…
South Africa races to halt third Covid wave as its financial outlook improves
A healthcare worker holds a vile containing Pfizer vaccine to be administered on elderly persons at the Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston, on May 17, 2021.Michele Spatari | AFP | Getty ImagesSouth African economic activity has rebounded…
Deepak Chopra “Damaged” by India’s Devastating Covid Disaster
Global wellness expert Deepak Chopra told CNBC that he was "devastated" and "broken" over the Covid-19 crisis that is currently gripping India and said the country could have dealt with the situation much better.Chopra, who was born and…
To-go cocktails will stick round in not less than 20 states after Covid
To-go cocktails won't be a pandemic fad.Nebraska joined 14 states and the District of Columbia on Wednesday in approving measures allowing restaurants to sell cocktails to go permanently after the success of the program during the health…
UK approves Janssen single-dose Covid vaccine to be used
A box of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine doses are pictured at Grubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill on Monday, April 12, 2021.Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesLONDON — The U.K.'s medicines regulator on Friday…
In accordance with the WHO, the investigation into the origin of Covid is “poisoned by…
Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Program, speaks at a press conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland.Denis Balibouse | ReutersA senior World Health Organization…
Russia Covid vaccines is not going to be necessary, says Putin, given the skepticism
Russian President Vladimir Putin examines military aircraft flying over the Kremlin and Red Square to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in Moscow on May 9, 2020.Alexey Druzhinin | AFP | Getty…