17 Feb 2021 - 9:26
Director of Customer Department at GRSIA, Ali Abdullah Al Kuwari, participating in the GCC committee meeting.
QNA
Doha: The State of Qatar, represented by the General Retirement and Social Insurance Authority (GRSIA), participated yesterday in the 47th meeting of the Technical Committee for Civil Retirement and Social Insurance Agencies of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, which was held via video conference.
Director of Customer Department and member of the committee Ali Abdullah Al Kuwari, who represented GRSIA, participated in the meeting.
The agenda included reviewing and updating the unified system for extending insurance protection, a comparative study of civil retirement and social insurance systems, the annual unified awareness campaign initiative and the coordination initiative and participation in international events.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Calls for tracer scanning to be compulsory after latest cases didn t use app
17 Feb, 2021 04:33 AM
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NZ COVID Tracer app overview. Video / Ministry of Health
Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
That the latest Covid-19 cases had not been using the tracer app was quite typical to the rest of the country, says an expert who is calling for a new approach targeting high-risk areas.
While it had previously been reported the three cases were not regular users of the app, on Wednesday in Parliament Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted definitively they had not been using it.
Analysis
EasyJet s CEO, Johan Lundgren, doesn’t estimate operating more than 10% of 2019 levels in the first quarter of 2021. Mr Lundgren maintains that they have to be flexible, as there is plenty of demand, but the restrictions need to be lifted.
Operating across Europe means the airline can move assets and fly to different places where the demand is. The CEO reports that the airline has a number of scenarios, but they want to wait as long as possible before putting them on sale.
Mr Lundgren doesn’t believe that there is going to be a structural shift of any significance, because people want to meet and they want to travel. A study undertaken in January indicated that the primary purpose of people who wanted to travel was to go on holiday – way above second place, visiting friends and family.