All posts tagged "vaccine"
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Italy mandates vaccine passports for all workers
Italy’s prime minister Mario Draghi has made vaccine passports mandatory for its 1.2 million government and local authority employees and all private sector workers. It is the first EU country
- Posted September 16, 2021
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Biden mandates vaccines for all feds and demands corporates follow suit
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that mandates all US federal workers and government contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face disciplinary action. He also announced plans
- Posted September 13, 2021
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EU funds vaccine drive for eastern neighbours
The European Union has pledged €35m (US$41m) to boost COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in six countries lying to the East of the bloc, as the global vaccine shortage bites. The aid
- Posted August 17, 2021
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UK government: Time to think again about the journey to digital transformation?
I’ve written before about how the COVID-19 crisis has forced UK government departments to accelerate their digital transformation, and proved that it’s possible to put policy into practice in weeks, rather than months or years.
- Posted August 2, 2021
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Getting everyone into the COVID-19 vaccination queue
Countries have made huge efforts to access and distribute vaccines – but to achieve ‘herd immunity’, they need to get them into the arms of the majority of their adult
- Posted July 14, 2021
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UK creates science & tech office with $10bn funding pledge
Boris Johnson’s government has announced a pivot towards science and technology as a means to deliver “solutions for the public good”, in a bid to capitalise on the UK’s success
- Posted June 25, 2021
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COVID elimination strategies saved economies as well as lives, say scientists
Countries that focused on eliminating COVID-19 performed better on health, economic and civil liberties measures compared with those that opted to mitigate the virus, a group of leading scientists has
- Posted April 29, 2021