Lawmakers were told in a government briefing that Covid-19 rates in the city are rising and compare badly with other regions currently in Tier 3, the top level of curbs in England.
The plan to retreat on UK Internal Market Bill is another sign that Boris Johnson govt is trying everything it can to smooth the path to a new post-Brexit trade agreement.
Frontline healthcare staff, people over the age of 80 and care home workers will be among the first to get the vaccine as part of Phase 1 of the programme.
If no agreement is reached, it would be a hammer blow for both sides as decades of free movement of goods, services and capital would come to an abrupt end.
Anthony Fauci said the UK drug regulator — Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency — took the data from the Pfizer company and rushed through the approval.
Spotlight now shifts to the high-stakes rollout of the vaccine. UK has ordered enough doses of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to immunize 20 million people.
If authorised, the UK will be one of the first countries in the world to receive the vaccine. AstraZeneca expects to have up to 4 million doses ready by the end of 2020.
Britain’s logistics industry is finding creative ways to be ready for bureaucracy that will hit on 1 Jan, when trade with EU will be subject to new paperwork.
The view that bureaucracies are bloated with far too many employees preying on taxpayers money is a widely held myth. Research shows how significantly understaffed the Indian state is.
The Centre is considering an increase in the National Company Law Tribunal's bench capacity, while the Standing Committee of Finance suggests fast-track courts.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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