MAY 4, 2021
Wealthy nations have put an emphasis on Covax, a UN-backed programme meant to share vaccines with the poorest nations. - Ben STANSALL
The Group of Seven wealthy democracies will discuss coronavirus vaccines Wednesday as they face growing pressure to share stockpiles and know-how with poor nations trailing far behind on fighting the pandemic.
Foreign ministers of Britain, Canada,...
MAY 4, 2021
Pfizer’s vaccine is disproportionately reaching the world’s rich. - Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Last year, racing to develop a vaccine in record time, Pfizer made a big decision: Unlike several rival manufacturers, which vowed to forgo profits on their shots during the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer planned to profit on its vaccine.
On Tuesday, the company announced just how much money...
MAY 3, 2021
Mumbai has three venues available. - BCCI
Relocating the IPL to Mumbai has emerged as a serious option for the BCCI as it looks to minimise the risks after several Covid-19 related cases were reported from both the venues currently hosting the tournament. If things go to plan, Mumbai could be hosting matches as early...
May 3, 2021
In the ongoing vaccination drive across the country, as many as 2,15,185 beneficiaries of the age group 18 to 44 years received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry.
As per a release by the ministry on Monday, the vaccination drive is underway in 12 states and union...
MAY 3, 2021
A sprawling dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast, littered with barrels of waste, had been mostly hidden from the public eye for over half a century. Now, marine scientists revealed the field of submerged waste, some of it likely toxic.
They detected around 27,000 barrels.
Over two weeks in March, scientists with NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
MAY 2, 2021
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) scored an emphatic win in the keenly watched assembly elections in West Bengal, MK Stalin’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) returned to power in Tamil Nadu after a decade, and Kerala’s Left government scripted history by winning two consecutive terms on Sunday, putting an end to a month-long polling exercise that...
MAY 2, 2021
A doctor in her office vaccinates a patient with a coronavirus vaccine. - Getty Images
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) have been close rivals in the COVID-19 vaccine race ever since they announced the starts of their phase 3 vaccine trials -- on the very same day back in July. But Pfizer edged ahead en route...
MAY 2, 2021
Over the decades, a spot in the middle class has felt increasingly vulnerable. - Christopher Lee / NY Times
Perhaps the most striking difference between the middle class of 50 years ago and the middle class today is a loss of confidence — the confidence that you were doing better than your parents and that your children...
APRIL 30, 2021
A portion of U.S.-Mexico border wall stands unfinished, April 14, 2021, near La Joya, Texas. - John Moore/Getty Images
The Biden administration is returning to the Pentagon billions in funds diverted by President Donald Trump to build the wall at the southwestern border, and plans to cancel all related construction contracts, an administration official told ABC News on...
APRIL 30, 2021
Household income rose at a record pace of 21.1% in March as federal-stimulus checks helped fuel an economic revival that is poised to endure with an easing pandemic.
The 21.1% March surge in income was the largest monthly increase for government records tracing back to 1959, largely reflecting $1,400 stimulus checks included in President Biden’s fiscal relief package...
