Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The gift will support student scholarships, efforts to help students become classroom teachers, and boost the number of graduates in fields critical to the nation’s economic future….
Virtual Care Market Worth Observing Growth: Allscripts Healthcare, MeMD, America Well
Source: OpenPR
HTF Market Intelligence released a new research report of 16 pages on title ‘Virtual Care – Thematic Research’ with detailed analysis, forecast and strategies. The study covers key regions that includes North America Country (United States, Canada), South America, Asia
Brazil President Bolsonaro thanks Modi for Covid vaccines
Source: The Tribune
New York, January 23 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the deadly coronavirus infection in his country, one of the worst-hit nations by the pandemic. India, one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, on Friday began commercial exports and sent two million doses of Covishield, developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, to Brazil. India has undertaken contractual supplies of coronavirus vaccines to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in New Delhi on Friday. “Namaskar, Prime Minister @narendramodi. Brazil is honoured to have a great partner to overcome a global obstacle. Thank you for helping us with vaccine exports from India to Brazil. Dhanyavaad!,” Bolsonaro tweeted on Friday. He also tweeted a picture of Lord Hanuman carrying a vaccine from India to Brazil. Brazil’s government has received 2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from India.
Currency Rate In Pakistan – Dollar, Euro, Pound, Riyal Rates On 23 January 2021
Pfizer to supply 40m Covid shots for poor nations
Source: Dawn.com
GENEVA: Pfizer on Friday committed to supplying up to 40 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organisation-backed effort to get affordable shots to poor and middle-income countries. The deal is a boost to the global programme known as Covax, as wealthy nations have snapped up most of the millions of coming shots. The commitment, announced at a virtual press conference held by the Geneva-based WHO, is seen as important because Pfizer and its partner BioNTech won the first emergency authorisation from the influential US Food and Drug Administration in mid-December. That clearance makes it easier for international health groups and poor nations to quickly approve the medicine for emergency use. Earlier this week, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticised drug-makers for seeking profits from the pandemic and mostly supplying wealthy countries. The 40 million doses for a vaccine requiring two doses are a tiny sliver of what’s needed for Covax, which aims to vaccinate billions of people in 92 low- and middle-income countries.
Pakistan to inject $35m to save Roosevelt Hotel: magazine
Source: Dawn.com
WASHINGTON: Pakistan is considering injecting $35.58 million as second bailout package for the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York, that is owned by Pakistan International Airlines Investment Limited (PIAIL), a hotel industry magazine reported on Friday. The Hotel Management , a magazine that started in 1922 in New York, also reported that Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet had discussed setting up of a panel to provide this bailout package for the property. According to the report, in September 2020, the panel approved $142m to cater to the immediate financial needs of the hotel. This amount was arranged as a loan from the National Bank of Pakistan with a per annum mark-up of $5.9m. Additionally, it approved $13m as an annual carrying cost until a lease agreement is finalised with a joint venture partner. The report noted that PIAIL risked losing the Manhattan property as well as the Scribe Hotel in Paris in 2019 after a court of British Islands enforced an international arbitration decision that involved handing over the two properties as settlement to Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) for cancelling its mining licence in Balochistan.
Pfizer to ship fewer vials of COVID vaccine to US after extra doses discovered
Source: New York Post
Pfizer will be shipping out fewer COVID-19 vaccine vials to the US after it was discovered that each vial actually contained an unplanned-for extra dose, according to the pharmaceutical company. Pharmacists discovered in December that they could extract an extra, sixth dose from each Pfizer vaccine vial; on Jan. 6, the Food and Drug Administration…
Boeing says it will make planes able to fly on 100% biofuel by 2030
Source: The Guardian
Aviation giant already staged the world’s first commercial flight using 100% biofuel in 2018 Boeing says it will begin delivering commercial airplanes capable of flying on 100% biofuel by the end of the decade, calling reducing environmental damage from fossil fuels the “challenge of our lifetime.” Boeing’s goal – which requires advances to jet systems, raising fuel-blending requirements, and safety certification by global regulators – is central to a broader industry target of slashing carbon emissions in half by 2050, the US planemaker said. Continue reading…
Low-income countries could start vaccinating by Feb under Pfizer deal: WHO
Source: WION
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said that it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, adding that the WHO intends to deliver vaccines to low and middle-income countries by next month, as part of its COVAX programme. COVAX is a vaccine alliance led by the WHO and the GAVI. As part of this, deals for hundreds of millions of doses have been signed-in order to inoculate people in low-income countries. Even then, vaccinations are yet to begin.
Ethereum 2.0 is making great strides towards phase 1
Source: Medium
Various renovation work is currently underway on the Ethereum network under the Serenity upgrade. Higher, faster, further: That is the goal of Ethereum 2.0. Until then, the crypto space will have to…
