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The claims have been made in recent weeks. By Stephen McDermott Friday 14 May 2021, 9:30 PM 2 hours ago 7,168 Views 0 Comments
IN RECENT WEEKS, a number of false and misleading claims about Covid-19 and vaccines have been shared widely by Irish users of Instagram.
Last week,
As we reported, former television presenter Aisling O’Loughlin is gaining a significant new following as a result of her dissemination of the same messages – including videos that appear to undermine the use of vaccines and certain health measures which aim to fight Covid-19.
Videos being shared by accounts such as O’Loughlin’s often contain claims that are misleading, untrue or which cannot be proved – or which misrepresent the facts or lack important contextual information.
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Rachel O’Brien, Chief Technology Transformation Officer, describes how the transformation plans changed and benefited CWT as the pandemic clouded global business travel
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We have had to make it clear that the extent of the change was very large and not just a single event.
Rachel O Brien is Chief Technology Transformation Officer at travel management company CWT; as a person charged with delivering technology transformations, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was a transformation of the scale that few could have predicted. But, as O Brien reveals, CWT had embarked on a major transformation journey which not only enabled the business to cope with the impact of the pandemic but has also set the business up for the journey out of the global lockdowns.
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Germany’s Chancellor
Angela Merkel said Wednesday (21 April) that the European Union needs more power to coordinate the bloc’s response to health crises like the coronavirus pandemic, and did not rule out a treaty change to secure them.
The veteran leader is due to step down after German elections in September and she has sometimes struggled to coordinate coronavirus measures taken by regional leaders within Germany.
But her comments to an online meeting on the Future of Europe of fellow European conservatives raised eyebrows in Brussels, where the start of a large-scale public debate on the future of the
21 Apr in 18:42 Modern Diplomacy
The media dedicate increasing attention to the issue of vaccine distribution and how it affects post-pandemic recovery. Some commentators and outlets have been focusing especially on the inequalities in the allocations of doses amongst different countries. As a matter of fact, a small number of highly developed countries have already booked an excessive number of doses. The UK, Israel and the US are likely to get enough shots to immunise their entire populaces more than once.
Meanwhile, as
Modern Diplomacy writes, most of the developing world is lagging behind. Lacking the financial resources and the political might to extoll bounding commitments from vaccine producers, they are losing the race. This is especially the case in Africa and Latin America, but Europe’s periphery is not in a much better position. However, few countries some South-Eastern Europe have managed to hit the headlines all around the globe for their amazing performances.