A day after issuing a message about coronavirus to his vast following, Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi has become the latest footballer to return a positive test. Copa America champion Messi has endured a nightmare start to 2022, with news that he has contracted the virus surfacing as he was about …
Read More »Planning ahead? Firms land Covid passport contracts that could last until 2023, even as UK govt hints plan could be dropped
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) published information earlier this week on two new contracts with private tech firms hired to work on the country’s “Covid-19 certification programme.” US-based Entrust will receive close to £840,000 ($1.2 million) for the development of the NHS health pass. The deal will …
Read More »With contracts in place for enough doses to immunize the entire population, South Korea is developing SECOND domestic vaccine
It is therefore aiming to have not one, but two domestically developed Covid-19 vaccines ready for deployment on home soil before the inoculation campaign is over, the South Korean health minister announced on Monday. Five local companies are developing such vaccines, and two are expected to complete phase III trials …
Read More »Austrian chancellor suspects ‘secret contracts’ signed at ‘vaccine bazaar’ behind unequal jab distribution in EU
“Deliveries are not happening in line with population,” Kurz told a press conference organized at short notice on Friday. He added that the situation would likely be “exacerbated in the coming months” and said the differences between member states could become “even greater.” The chancellor said that delivery data for the …
Read More »Mexican President Lopez Obrador contracts Covid-19, but plans to keep working & call Putin about Sputnik V vaccine supply
“I regret to inform you that I am infected with COVID-19,” the 67-year-old Mexican leader, perhaps better known by his initials AMLO, said in a tweet. Despite the diagnosis, however, he remains optimistic and will proceed working from his residence. On Monday, AMLO has a scheduled phone call with Russian President …
Read More »NYC mayor says city will drop Trump contracts to run ice-skating rinks, carousel & golf course over Capitol-storming ‘rebellion’
The Democrat politician announced on Wednesday that New York would end a deal with the Trump Organization that nets the president’s business $17 million a year in return for operating two popular Central Park skating rinks, a carousel, and a golf course. De Blasio had revealed on Tuesday that “our …
Read More »Pentagon to dish out $600mn in contracts for ‘5G dual-use EXPERIMENTATION’ at 5 US military sites, including to ‘aid lethality’
Dubbing 5G tech a “foundational enabler for all US defense modernization,” the Pentagon announced the massive research initiative on Thursday, which will hand hundreds of millions to 15 private contractors to conduct testing at five US military installations. “Today, the Department of Defense announced $600 million in awards for 5G …
Read More »Trump warns no federal contracts to firms who outsource to China & threatens to DECOUPLE US economy…without losses?
“We lose billions of dollars, and if we didn’t do business with [China], we wouldn’t lose billions of dollars,” the president told reporters at a Monday briefing. “It’s called decoupling, so you’ll start thinking about it,” Trump continued, without explaining what would happen to the trillion-plus dollars in US debt …
Read More »Moscow continues to enter into contracts for the improvement and entertainment
On 10 April the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin imposed a ban on conclusion any contracts, except for emergency, in the framework of the “temporary mode of execution of the city budget”. Until further notice suspended all improvement works. However, since the structure of the municipality signed a non-urgent contracts …
Read More »For non-payment of wages and failure of contracts will not be criminal responsibility
The state Council has proposed to decriminalize the non-payment of salaries. The state Council working group headed by the Governor of Tula region Alexey Dyumin offers to partially decriminalize the law on economic offences, according to RBC. In particular, from the criminal field it is proposed to withdraw an article …
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