India Covid crisis: Court urges government action as hospitals cry help
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The court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-saving items.
With Indian hospitals struggling to secure a steady supply of oxygen, and more Covid-19 patients dying amid the shortages, a court in New Delhi said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver the life-saving items.
On Sunday, India recorded a slight drop in new infections with 392,488 from a high of 401,993 in the previous 24 hours. It also reported 3,689 additional deaths, bringing the total to 215,542. Experts believe both figures are an undercount.
Covid: Jordan detects three cases of Indian variant
Reuters/Amman Filed on May 2, 2021
Two cases were recorded in Amman and one in Zarqa in people who did not travel.
Jordan detected three cases of the Indian Covid-19 variant in people who had not travelled, the health minister told state-owned Al Mamlaka TV. Two cases were recorded in Amman and one in Zarqa in people who did not travel, which confirms that the emergence of mutated cases does not necessarily have to come from outside, but rather as a result of specific reproduction, Minister Firas Al-Hawari told Al Mamlaka TV.
Jordan recorded on Saturday 704 cases of Covid-19 with 35 deaths, bringing the total cases detected in the Kingdom to 712,077 with 8,871 deaths, according to the health ministry.
Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk: Egos clash in space race
AFP/Paris Filed on May 2, 2021
The tech entrepreneurs have each channelled some of their vast fortunes into private space exploration companies since early this century.
Even the Milky Way seems too small to keep the egos of tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk from colliding as they vie to conquer space.
Musk aimed low with a recent tweet saying “can’t get it up (to orbit)” in response to a post about Bezos-founded space company Blue Origin protesting Nasa s choice of Musk’s SpaceX team to build a module that will land the next US astronauts on the moon.
UAE law: What to do if you spot a major defect in a secondhand car
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Question: I am writing in to understand if secondhand items are covered under the consumer protection laws. If I purchase a secondhand car from an individual and it later emerges to have a major defect, would I have any legal protection? What if I purchase a vehicle from a secondhand dealer? Please advise.
Pursuant to your queries, we assume that you intend to buy secondhand vehicle in the UAE either from an individual or a car dealer. Therefore, the provisions of Federal Law No. 15 of 2020 on Consumer Protection (the ‘New Consumer Protection Law of UAE’) may be applicable.
Covid: WHO lists Moderna vaccine for emergency use
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The US vaccine is the fifth jab to earn WHO s emergency listing.
The World Health Organization has listed Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, the agency said on Friday, the fifth to be given the status meant to expedite countries’ own approval of shots.
“The objective is to make medicines, vaccines and diagnostics available as rapidly as possible to address the emergency,” the WHO said in a statement.
WHO Assistant Director-General Mariangela Simao said on Friday it was important to have more vaccines available because of supply problems for other shots, including from India, a main source of vaccines for the global COVAX vaccine sharing programme. India has restricted exports because of a crisis of infections.