On Tuesday, Dubai opened its Museum of the Future and its structure touts as the world’s most beautiful building. Build on Sheikh Zayed Road, the city’s main highway, the structure is a seven-story hollow silver ellipse. It is decorated with Dubai’s ruler quotes in Arabic calligraphy. Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum officially inaugurated the Museum. It was opened with a vision of the future that has been credited as the driving force behind the construction of the museum. Before the inauguration, the building was lit by the laser light show in the evening fo
On Monday, the United Arab Emirates has exempted Indian travelers from the at-airport RT-PCR test for the COVID-19 infection. The UAE announced the abolition of the at-airport RT-PCR ceding to aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia’s demand. Tho negotiate an increase in the number of flights between the two countries, one of the members said, “Minister Scindia made it clear to the UAE authorities that the increase in seat entitlements would happen after this requirement is removed”. The abolition is made for Indian nationals flying to Dubai and other emirates, bringing some relief
On Monday, Australia reopened its international borders to fully vaccinated travelers. The nation opened its borders for tourists after nearly two afters of being shut due to a pandemic. The tourism and hospitality sector is looking forward to rebuilding its economy after getting hammered by Covid-19 restrictions. Hundreds of people were reunited with their family and friends. Approximately 50 international flights are scheduled to touch down through the day that will including 27 flights in Sydney itself. Dan Tehan, Tourism Minister welcomed travelers with a jar of Vegemite- an essenti
On Saturday, The U.K. government confirmed that people with COVID-19 will not have to legally be required to self isolate themself from next week. This major step was taken under the “living with COVID” plan that will result in testing for the coronavirus scaled back. UK prime minister Mr. Borris Johnson said that the government is ending all the legal restrictions brought in to retrain the spread of the infection. Speaking ahead of the conference alongside England’s chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser said
On Tuesday, for the next five years, The European Union and the Gates Foundation will invest more than 100 million euros to help set up an African medicines regulator to boost the continent’s drugs and vaccine commission. The announcement comes ahead of a summit of EU and AU leaders when a 150-billion-euro investment package in Africa is expected to be reaffirmed by the EU. In November, a treaty establishing the African Medicines Agency (AMA) came to force. However, the agency is currently existing only on papers. Currently, just over half of the 55 member states of the African Union hav
On Friday, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asks the international community to “change track” in protecting the ocean from the climate crisis. The ocean is affecting its ecosystem by getting warmer and more acidic as it serves as a giant carbon and heat sink. Guterres warned that the ocean “shoulder a great deal of the burden” and global warming, biodiversity loss, and pollution are a triple crisis facing the planet. In his video message, he said that the polar ice is melting and global weather patterns are also changing with it. The conference took place t
On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU would increase its spending to boost the vaccination drive in African states. They plan to increase as they are lagging behind despite having received the COVID-19 vaccine supplies. African countries began rollouts of the vaccines much later than wealthier countries, which began receiving the limited doses in late 2020. Gavi, a nonprofit global vaccine alliance, estimates that Congo and Burundi have used less than 20% of the available doses, however, supplies have grown exponentially in recent months and m
On Monday, India approved Russia's one-shot Sputnik Light COvid-19 vaccine for unvaccinated people. India has approved the shots for emergency use almost 10 months after it cleared the two-dose Sputnik V. Indian drugmaker Dr. Reddy’s spokesperson said, “The current restricted use in emergency situation approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to Sputnik Light is for the single-shot standalone vaccine. Our efforts to seek approval for Sputnik Light as a precautionary dose/booster are currently underway”. However, the was no immediate response to an email request for
The Worlds Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus discussed collaboration on Covid origins with the Chinese premier. Tedros visited Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics. On Saturday, Tedros tweeted, “Pleased to meet with Premier Li Keqiang. We discussed COVID-19 and the need for an aggressive effort on VaccinEquiyt this year to vaccinate 70 percent of all population”. He tweeted referring to the campaign organized by the WHO for fair access to vaccines around the world. He further added that they also discussed the need for stronger collaboration on COVID-19 vi
On Thursday, Germany’s expert vaccine commission, the Standing Committee on Vaccination (StiKo) raised a recommendation approving the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adults. Novavax shots were first approved in Indonesia. It is hoped the protein-based shot might help address vaccine hesitancy since it uses a conventional technology rather than messenger RNA vaccines (mRNA) that have proven most effective during the pandemic. Approximately 74% of people in Germany have already had two doses of the COVID vaccine. The government wishes to increase its status to 90%. In the StiKo, it is r