ZURICH (Reuters) - Austrian schools will receive 5 million coronavirus testing kits from Jan. 18, the government said on Saturday, as part of efforts to curb the spread of the virus when pupils eventually return to the classroom. Education Minister Heinz Fassmann announced the delivery of the voluntary tests which pupils and teachers will be able to take at least once a week. Testing is the right answer to bridge the difficult months until the vaccine coverage is complete, Fassmann said. Austria has ordered most of its schools to move to remote learning for pupils from Jan. 7 to Jan. 15. It is unclear when schools will reopen, Fassmann said, although he hoped this would be as soon as possible. Parents of younger children will be asked to test their children at home, while older pupils will be able to test themselves at school. There will be parents who refuse, Fassmann told a press conference. But overall this is an opportunity not only to open up the schools, but also to keep them ope
With nearly 102,000 doses administered, the state ranks first per capita among states with populations of more than 2 million people. The first cases of a
By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the European Commission said on Friday, in a move that would give the EU nearly half of the firms global output for 2021. Pfizer has said it can produce up to 1.3 billion doses around the world this year. The new agreement with the EU comes on top of another order for 300 million doses of the vaccine, branded in the EU under the name Comirnaty, that the bloc agreed with Pfizer and German partner BioNTech in November. We now have agreed with BioNTech and Pfizer to extend this contract. With the new agreement we could purchase a total of up to an additional 300 million doses of the BioNTech vaccine, Ursula von der Leyen told a news conference on Friday. Pfizer was more cautious. We are in talks with the European Commission about an amendment to our existing supply agreement for Comirnaty, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-
Norwich When Angela Adams sought advice a year ago on how best she could help local businesses as executive director of the Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce, Jason Vincent offered a vision for her.
Vincent at the time was co-chairman of the chamber’s economic development committee and vice president of the Norwich Community Development Corp.
“He said I am the gatherer,” Adams recalled Wednesday of Vincent’s concept of both their roles. “I bring everyone into a room, and he’s the planner to help find solutions to the problems we have. That’s where he was such a big part. That’s where everyone relied on him.”
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COVID-19’s impact cost the southeastern Connecticut casinos dearly during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2020, annual reports posted late last month show.
Foxwoods Resort Casino reported net revenues of $539.2 million for the period, a 31.6% decline from the $787.8 million it tallied the previous fiscal year.
Mohegan Sun’s net revenues fell to $715.7 million in fiscal 2020, down 27.9% from $992 million. Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment, the corporate entity that operates Mohegan Sun and the Mohegan Tribe’s other gaming enterprises around the world, had total net revenues of $1.11 billion, a decrease of 16.7%, according to the MGE annual report filed last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.