LAGOS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- At least 43 Nigerian federal ministers have donated 50 percent of their March salaries to support the government's efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The donation was a gesture of solidarity and support for the federal government's efforts to...
European states, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, should enhance safeguarding measures in processing personal data of children, notably (...)
01:19 The EU's 27 finance ministers are meeting via teleconference on Tuesday to finalize the details of the rescue package designed to mitigate the economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With many European countries now in their fourth week under lockdown, urgent ac...
The SCC's head of investigations, Oko Petit, and his team sent out new summons to various members of the government, including health minister Manaouda Malachie, asking them to provide further documentation. He has been asked for documents relating to the purchase of a magnetic resonance ...
Procedures have been initiated to ensure that all members of the committee will be tested and the self-isolation was a precaution, the statement said. In addition to the prime minister, the High Level Committee on the COVID-19 also includes ministers for health, finance, tourism, agro-industry...
The challenge of maintaining Covid appropriate behaviour in the general public was also discussed, in light of the recent rise in the number of cases in some states. The Chief Ministers agreed on the requirement of greater vigilance and monitoring of the situation. ...
China's tax refunds and cuts will reach a record high this year in an effort to relieve the burden on market entities, Minister of Finance Liu Kun said on the sidelines of the ongoing "two sessions" on Saturday. A government work report submitted to the national legislature said the total...
Britain's government on Monday said a rise in new infections might be partly linked to the new variant as it moved its capital city and other areas into the highest tier of COVID-19 restrictions. The Telegraph also reported on Friday that government officials expected the A...
The Government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the figures “could be moving in the right direction”, but suggested they need another “week or so” before they could be sure. Meanwhile the first of the NHS Nightingale hospitals, at London’s ExCel centre, receiv...
A person is seen in the window of a room at a government-authorized COVID-19 quarantine hotel in Richmond, B.C. on Sunday, February 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck MPs will hear from federal ministers and officials as early as this week on the safety of returnin...