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Call for Ireland to support making vaccine technology openly available Irish organisations’ open letter to Taoiseach says ‘united action’ needed on Covid-19 Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:22 Updated: Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:25   There “simply is no way” to defeat Covid-19 in Ireland without “united action worldwide”, an open letter to the Taoiseach from a coalition of Irish organisations and charities has said. The group is requesting Ireland’s support for proposals to allow Covid-19 vaccine technology to be shared openly through an emergency waiver at the World Trade Organisa...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. For those busy insurance/reinsurance professionals out there, BSA have provided a snap-shot of last year's UAE insurance laws and what to watch out for in 2021. The formal declaration of the outbreak of Coronavirus as a pandemic (Covid-19) on 11 March 2020 sent shockwaves around the world and the insurance industry has been hit hard. While the market was already struggling with hardening rates and lack of capacity, Covid-19 added fuel to the fire and saw several reinsurers pulling out of th...

 1 While rejecting representations by tax consultants and professionals, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has refused to grant any further extension of the due dates for filing the tax audit report (TAR) under Section 44AB of the Income-Tax (I-T) Act. CBDT says the process cannot be delayed 'indefinitely', which would hamper functioning of the tax department and welfare programmes of the government. At present, the last date for filing TAR has been extended to 15th January and for filing the return for TAR to 15 February 2021.   Last week on 8th January, the Gujarat High Court, whil...

In the US, many vaccines are set to expire even before being distributed. More than 12 million doses of vaccines have been distributed so far in 33 countries, but none of those countries are in Africa. South Africa, the most badly hit country on the African continent, has been unable to procure vaccine from Moderna. The country’s government says it was unable to persuade the company to submit its vaccine to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, the agency that approves vaccines. While Moderna has refused to sell vaccines to South Africa, it has agreed to sell 40 million do...

COVID-19, Cancelled Sessions, Absent Debates Mark the Functioning of Parliament in 2020 Some key Bills were passed even as a pandemic raged. Most of them, including the contentious farm and labour Bills, were passed in the absence of opposition. Opposition MPs march from Gandhi statue to Ambedkar statue in protest against the recent farm and labour bills, during the Monsoon Session, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Photo: PTI Politics30/Dec/2020 Parliament in the year 2020 will be remembered for two distinct features – the way the COVID-19 pandemic led to the...