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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) - This year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) will begin in Chennai on April 9 and will be played across six venues, initially without spectators, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
The United Arab Emirates is continuing to diversify its economy & energy resources away from oil, by investing in natural gas and renewables.
The country has ambitions to become self-sufficient in gas supply by 2030.
Earlier this year, a natural gas reservoir found between the emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai became the world’s largest discovery of its kind in 15 years. Some analysts estimate that the Jebel Ali reservoir could meet the country’s gas demand for around 30 years.
Similarly, in January, the emirate of Sharjah announced its first onshore gas discovery since the early 1980s.
The Jebel Ali gas reservoir - Courtesy: ADNOC
Game changer
As the third largest emirate in the UAE, Sharjah, has significant energy requirements.
An energy giant based there is Crescent Petroleum, which was founded in 1971.
Established at a time when natural gas was widely considered an undesirable by-product of oil production, Crescent took the long view and invested heavily.
Today, it is the oldest and largest private upstream oil and gas company in the region.
The company pioneered the UAE’s intra-emirate commercial gas market and this led to the formation of Dana Gas in 2005, which today has exploration and production assets in Egypt, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and the UAE.
Speaking to Rebecca McLaughlin-Eastham of Inspire Middle East, Crescent Petroleum’s CEO and MD of the Board of Directors for Dana Gas, Majid Jafar, said the UAE’s recent finds were promising for the sector.
“What's interesting, if you look at our region and indeed worldwide, natural gas wasn't really a big focus for exploration until fairly recently. The target was always oil,” he said. “With lower oil prices and opaque quotas limiting oil production, at least at the moment, in this COVID-19 year, the focus is very much on gas.”
Self-sufficiency
Around a third of the UAE’s current gas supply comes from Qatar, in a longstanding agreement that won’t expire until 2032.
Majid Jafar speaks to Inspire Middle East
In terms of how the UAE could rely less on imported gas before then, Crescent's CEO had this to say:
“I think the faster adoption of technology and increasing the role of the private sector can release new resources of natural gas, and indeed oil, going forward that weren't previously available.\"
Jafar pointed to the Middle East region having great untapped potential in gas discovery and production.
“I think that's an exciting opportunity and it's one we hope to play a key role in, both in the UAE and wider in the region,” he said. “Our region overall, has roughly half the world's oil and gas proven reserves. And actually, there's probably still a lot more that isn't proven because exploration is under-explored.”
Energy outlook
Jafar is optimistic for the region’s oil & gas industry going forward, despite it having been a “challenging year”, with the oil price sinking below zero in April.
One upside Jafar points to is the region having low production costs compared to t
According to The Hill, a member of the Norwegian Parliament nominated the President for the prestigious award for his role in brokering relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The nomination came after Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of Parliament and chairman […]
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NEW DELHI, India (AP) — From her village in eastern India, 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari reflected on her desperate 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) bicycle journey home with her disabled father that has drawn international praise.
Kumari said that she and her father risked starvation had they stayed in Gurugram, a suburb of New Delhi, with no income amid India's novel coronavirus lockdown.
The daughter and father arrived in Darbhanga, their village in Bihar state, more than a week ago, reuniting with Kumari's mother and brother-in-law, who'd left the capital region after the lockdown was imposed on March 25.
Upon their arrival, village officials placed Kumari's father in a quarantine centre, a policy many State and local governments in India have implemented to try to keep returning migrants from spreading the virus.
Kumari heard about the special trains, but her father, unable to walk, wouldn't have been able to reach the railway platform.
Huddersfield owner says 50 or 60 clubs could go bust in next year
LONDON, (Reuters) – Up to 60 English lower league soccer clubs could go out of business if the sport fails to plan for the impact of COVID-19 beyond the current season, Huddersfield Town owner Phil Hodgkinson said on Sunday.
Championship (second tier) clubs are due to return to training in small groups today, with hopes of completing the season behind closed doors.
“There are clubs I know of that are only still trading because they are deferring wages and (tax) and other creditors.
Hodgkinson said the worst case scenario would be playing next season without fans allowed to attend matches, leaving many clubs without their major source of income.
“There is an absolutely real, stark probability that if something isn’t agreed now within football to ensure all clubs can pay their bills and get through to the point where income is resumed, you will be looking at 50 or 60 clubs ceasing to exist,” said Hodgkinson.
New Delhi, India — For the eighth day, tens of thousands of Indian farmers continued their protests against new agriculture laws, disrupting traffic and threatening to block all entry points to the nation’s capital of [...]
(Reuters) - Gloucestershire’s match against Northamptonshire in the Bob Willis Trophy was abandoned on Sunday after a Northamptonshire player had tested positive for COVID-19, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced yesterday.
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By ASHOK SHARMA and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The crowds filling shopping areas ahead of the Diwali festival of lights on Saturday are raising hopes of India's distressed business community after months of lockdown losses but also spawning fears of a massive coronavirus upsurge. People who've restricted their purchases to essentials for months appear to be in a celebratory mood and traders are lapping it up, said Praveen Khandelwal, general secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders. 'The past three days have seen a tremendous increase in customer footfall in shopping markets for festival purchases,' […]
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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) - The Indian Premier League (IPL) has launched an investigation after one of the players in this year’s tournament in the United Arab Emirates reported being approached for possible corruption, the league’s integrity chief told Reuters yesterday.
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Total confirmed cases = 8,068 (new cases = 229)
Total recoveries = 2,311
Total deaths = 233
Active cases = 5,524
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 25, 2020
May 25: 7,839 cases, Buhari on global impact, food sufficiency
\tPresident Buhari has stressed the global impact of COVID-19 describing it as a leveler between the developed and developing world.
Total confirmed cases = 7,839 (new cases = 313)
Total recoveries = 2,263
Total deaths = 226
Active cases = 5,350
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 24, 2020
May 22: 7,526 cases, no death recorded in 24-hours
\tNo virus-related death recorded in a day for the first time in the month of May 2020, according to records released close of day Saturday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Total confirmed cases = 7,526 (new cases = 265)
Total recoveries = 2,174
Total deaths = 221
Active cases = 5,131
May 22: 7,261 cases, Buhari’s private Eid, chloroquine warning
\tPresident Buhari will be observing Eid under strict lockdown rules.
Total confirmed cases = 7,261 (new cases = 245)
Total recoveries = 2,007
Active cases = 5,033
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 22, 2020
May 22: 7,016 cases, Eid uproar, more evacuations expected
\tThe case count has passed the 7,000 mark reaching 7,016 according to stats as of close of day May 21.
Total confirmed cases = 7,016 (new cases = 339)
Total recoveries = 1907
Total deaths = 211
Active cases = 4,898
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 21, 2020
May 21: 6,677 cases, northern governors express concern
\tThe Northern Governors Forum, NGF, has expressed concern over the infection rates of COVID-19 across the region.
PRAGUE, (Reuters) – Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is happy to finally play tennis again for fans around the world – even if they can only watch on television.
The world number 12 will headline an all-Czech tournament in Prague starting today without spectators, handshakes or the usual towel service.
She said finding rhythm and playing without support would be the hardest part returning.
“We will play some nice tennis… I think we are mainly here to bring tennis back not only to the Czech Republic, but to the world, too.”
The tournament, with eight players in both the men’s and women’s draw, will resemble regular tennis as much as possible.
Image: Aly Song/Reuters
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings will invest 500-billion yuan (about R1.2-trillion) over the next five years in technology infrastructure including cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, the company said on Tuesday.
The announcement comes after call by Beijing last month for a tech-driven structural upgrade of the world’s second largest economy through investment in “new infrastructure” and a boom in demand for business software and cloud services.
Expediting the ‘new infrastructure’ strategy will help further cement virus containment success
Tencent, which is 31.2% owned by South Africa’s Naspers, is best known for its WeChat messaging app and a range of popular games but is aiming to expand into business services as consumer Internet growth slows and companies shift number-crunching from their own computers to the cloud.
Tencent has said while cloud businesses suffered amid the Covid-19 outbreak it expected to see accelerated cloud services and enterprise software adoption from offline industries and public sectors over the longer term.
18% share
“Expediting the ‘new infrastructure’ strategy will help further cement virus containment success,” Guangming Daily quoted Tong as saying.
Mauritius has registered two new cases of Covid-19, the first since 26 April, involving two people recently repatriated from India who had been quarantined on their return, local health authorities announced Sunday evening
\tThey were among a group of 149 Mauritians repatriated from New Delhi and Mumbai on 9 May, who had been quarantined upon their arrival on the island.
The two new carriers of the virus, from the same family, are “in the same quarantine centre” and are “asymptomatic”, Dr Zouberr Joomaye, spokesman for the national communication committee on Covid-19, told AFP after making the announcement on television.
The two new carriers of the virus, from the same family, are in the same quarantine centre and are asymptomatic
\tThe two individuals had tested negative when they left India, but a new test at the end of their quarantine “proved positive,” he explained.
These two new cases “justify all the precautionary measures taken by the government.
However, since 15 May, the island began the first phase of its easing of lockdown measures with the gradual resumption of certain activities, in addition to essential sectors such as banks and supermarkets.
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and CHRISTINA LARSON Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — What if COVID-19 never goes away? Experts say it's likely that some version of the disease will linger for years. But what it will look like in the future is less clear. Will the coronavirus, which has already killed more than 2 million people worldwide, eventually be eliminated by a global vaccination campaign, like smallpox? Will dangerous new variants evade vaccines? Or will the virus stick around for a long time, transforming into a mild annoyance, like the common cold? Eventually, the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 will become […]
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