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...Official watchdogs such as the health and safety inspectorate division, the patient safety commissioner, separate ombudsmen for health and social care, and the Care Quality Commission were “not as effective...
...plains of Carbon County, in southern Wyoming, in the great American West....
...On June 1, Strand was sentenced to 32 months in prison for obstruction of an official proceeding as well as several misdemeanours....
...During a marathon summit of EU leaders in the summer of 2019, a backroom deal, supported by French president Emmanuel Macron sealed her candidacy....
...Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said that when Egypt was selected as the summit’s host, “some people wanted to campaign against that, to choose a different location...
...“As one executive director said to me, ‘I don’t want the World Bank to stop doing what it’s doing in health and education.’”...
...former director of public prosecutions....
...“The impact of non-attendance is significant,” says Heather Sandy, director of children’s services for Lincolnshire county council....
...In some ways, to channel Zhou Enlai, it’s too early to tell the success of the summit....
...Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Nigerian finance minister who took over as WTO director-general in Geneva in March 2021, has staked her reputation on finding an answer....
...Also this week, Adam Niedzielski, Poland’s health minister, warned of potential “drastic action” in the face of rising numbers, while Slovakia has closed restaurants and bars in five counties....
...As Pfizer’s production capacity soared in 2021, the company grabbed market share from cheaper rivals AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson....
...Director, Kazakhstan, Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland...
...Moving the WTO Covid discussion on The flurry of spin and counter-spin ahead of tomorrow’s Global Health Summit is giving us flashbacks to the G8 and G20 meetings of past decades....
...That message was echoed in a summit of EU leaders at the end of last week, as von der Leyen laid out the bloc’s ambitions in a slideshow to fellow leaders....
...But it has emerged as one of the strongest lenders of the health crisis, and stole a march on hesitant rivals in debt underwriting across Europe....
...A surveillance camera system installed by Huawei, the Chinese technology group, has the capacity to monitor the behaviour of people in the square and elsewhere in the city, recognise their faces, identify...
...In Finland, Outi Kuivasniemi, director for international affairs at the social affairs and health ministry, said her country was tightening rules in a locally targeted way even though national infection...
...They have also demanded the resignation of Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri, with socialists in the parliament decrying his position as “untenable”....
...Delayed test results also make it harder for contact tracers to find and isolate people who are at risk, and mean that public health officials are fighting the pandemic with out-of-date data....
...Emma Wolfe, Mr De Blasio’s chief of staff, got a message from the then health commissioner on March 6, telling her that the city should lock down....
...The new rules include the wearing of masks for those over 13 in indoor public areas and schools and the prohibition of alcohol sales from 8pm....
...An expanding and politically sensitive area of government policy (public health in the Australia case, renewable generation and energy security in this) butts up against an arbitration system from an earlier...
...“We need to bring down the cost of clean hydrogen quickly, by increasing the electrolyser capacity and the share of renewable energy in Europe.”...
...Tall tales of trade The epic EU summit ended with a big expansion of the union’s borrowing capacity, with bonds issued centrally by the European Commission rather than its member states....
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