News Desk: The government would allow the traders who had imported rice earlier as per its directives to bring in more rice to meet its import target, according to the food ministry. A high official of the ministry told the FE that they had asked the Directorate General of Food (DGoF) to take necessary steps in this regard. The importers […]
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News Desk: THE HAGUE, Feb 20, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is still waiting for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to start the countdown to its launch across the 27-nation bloc. With Moscow and Brussels trading barbs over the length of time the Amsterdam-based regulator is taking, here is what we know so far: – What’s the process? […]
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News Desk: Cabbage exports from Bangladesh have surged nearly 6,000 per cent by volume this year over that of the past year. The country has shipped a record 6,500 tonnes in one and a half months until February 15, fetching an estimated $1.5-million in export receipts. It exported just 107 tonnes in 2020, according to the plant quarantine wing of […]
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News Desk: Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old Indian environmental activist accused of sedition over a document backing protesting farmers, is as committed to protecting animals from harm as she is to save the Earth from climate change, her friends say. Profiled in British Vogue last September, she also – in common with many of her Gen Z peers – likes memes, […]
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News Desk: Poultry production costs rose by 38.93% in Brazil in 2020, reaching the worst level for farmers since 2012. Meat prices declined or stabilised and the cost share of feed and doc’s grew to 87% of total production costs. According to Embrapa Suínos e Aves, from the 10 elements that make up poultry production costs, only labour costs decreased […]
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News Desk: MEXICO CITY, Feb 11, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Mexican regulators gave emergency approval Wednesday to the Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccines CanSino Biologics and CoronaVac. The approval was announced by deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell as Mexico struggles to manage the pandemic. Mexico has officially registered around 170,000 deaths from Covid-19 — the world’s third highest toll — and nearly two […]
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News Desk: There is currently considerable international debate around school closures/openings and the role of children in the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Whilst evidence suggests that children are not impacted by COVID-19 as severely as adults, little is still known about their transmission potential, and with a lot of asymptomatic cases they may be silent transmitters (i.e. infectious […]
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News Desk: Britain will require passengers arriving from countries where worrying coronavirus variants are spreading to pay for 10 days of quarantine in hotels, while rule-breakers will face heavy fines or jail terms, under tighter restrictions from next week. The new travel rules add to restrictions that already ban travel abroad for holidays. The government said the stronger measures were […]
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News Desk: Facebook is expanding its efforts to remove more Covid-19 conspiracies that discourage vaccination against coronavirus, according to an announcement by the company. “Since December, we’ve removed false claims about Covid-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts. Today, following consultations with leading health organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of […]
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News Desk: The coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, a World Health Organization team has concluded, an expert said Tuesday as the group wrapped up a visit to explore the origins of the virus. The Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China has collected […]
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