By the end of May, only 2.1 percent of Africans will have received at least one dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine. We need to close the vaccination gap between advanced economies and developing countries to avoid what Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called “vaccination apartheid.” Doing so is both morally right and in
DUBAI: The relaunch of Dubai Coin, a digital currency that it was claimed could be used to buy goods, is a scam, Dubai’s government said today. “Dubai Coin cryptocurrency was never approved by any official authority,” the government said on its Twitter account. “The website promoting the coin is an elaborate phishing campaign that is designed to steal personal information from its visitors.” Dubai Coin s relaunch was fake and both its name and logo had been used fraudulently in a news release and website, according to ArabianChain Technology, the UAE-based blockchain start-up that set up Dubai Coin in 2017. Dubai Coin was “relaunched” this week amid claims it had official backing, The National newspaper reported. The press release distributed by PRNewswire has since been removed from its website.
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ANKARA: Turkey convinced its NATO allies to opt for a milder official stance after Belarus forced down a European airliner passing through the country’s airspace so it could arrest a dissident journalist, Reuters reported on Thursday. The Ryanair passenger plane was flying from Greece and bound for Lithuania, however Belarus diverted its route to force it to land in Minsk on
NEW DELHI: India said Friday it would vaccinate its whole population by this December, despite mounting criticism over its sluggish immunization drive.
India started its rollout on Jan. 16 and has so far inoculated just 3 percent of its 1.3 billion population.
It is currently facing a devastating second wave, with coronavirus claiming at least 318,000 lives since the start of the pandemic according to official figures. Media and independent agencies say, however, that the death toll may be several times higher.
“India’s vaccination program is robust and by December we will be able to vaccinate over 100 crore Indians (1 billion),” Information Minister Prakash Javadekar told a press conference.