Reading Time: 2 minutes SYDNEY, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Qantas Airways Ltd said on Friday it would speed up plans to restart flights to many destinations and use some bigger planes amid “massive demand” for international flying as quarantine restrictions ease for Australian citizens. All 11,000 of the airline’s staff idled without pay, around half its workforce,
Reading Time: 3 minutes Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday that the likely benefits of giving the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to 5 to 11 year olds clearly outweigh the risks of rare cases of heart inflammation. Earlier on Friday, the vaccine makers said their shot showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus
Reading Time: < 1 minute New Zealand reported 104 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, including the first community case of the virus in the country’s South Island in nearly a year, health officials said. Most of the new infections were reported in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city that has been under a strict lockdown for more than two months
From the traditional Maltese ftira to a juicy tuna steak and fresh sushi to seafood salads, tuna makes up an important part of our Mediterranean diet. In fact, wild-caught bluefin tuna is one of the most sought-after seafood dishes around. Malta happens to be one of the only places in the world where you can scuba dive in the farms these fish are bred
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tunisia is imposing COVID-19 vaccine passes on Tunisians and all foreign visitors, a presidential decree showed. Officials, employees and users are required to show a card proving inoculation against the coronavirus to access public and private administrations, according to the decree. The pass will also be required to enter
Reading Time: 2 minutes KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Malaysia will let foreign workers back into the country after an almost 16-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and allow some tourists back to its resort island of Langkawi, its prime minister said on Friday. The agreement reached by the government’s pandemic taskforce on foreign workers
Reading Time: 2 minutes BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – People should reduce travel across different provinces as China battles its latest COVID-19 outbreak, and tourism sites should limit traffic, the official Xinhua news agency cited vice premier Sun Chunlan as saying on Friday. Many infections found in the recent cluster had cross-region travel history,
Reading Time: 3 minutes NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Tens of millions of Indian adults are unlikely to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of 2021, despite ample supplies, due to an unusually large gap between the doses of the most widely-used vaccine and growing complacency as cases fall. The locally-produced AstraZeneca vaccine which
Reading Time: < 1 minute KYIV, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Ukraine attained a second successive daily record of new coronavirus infections and deaths, the health ministry said on Friday, despite tighter curbs last month as infections have risen for weeks among the population of 41 million. Ministry data showed 23,785 new cases over the past 24 hours, up from
Diners are returning to eating out after a major slowdown during the pandemic – but customers’ increased demands in 2021 are pushing some servers to the edge. Be it expecting tables (even if there are other customers sitting in them), an assumption that eateries offer something for every diet, and a quick habit of resorting to shouting at workers until
