Pfizer-BioNTech Submits the First Omicron COVID-19 Booster for FDA Authorization

All COVID-19 vaccines that are used in the U.S. target the same original strain of SARS-CoV-2. But boosters designed to protect against the latest Omicron subvariants could be coming soon.

On Aug. 22, Pfizer-BioNTech submitted a request to the U.Sคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize its Omicron-specific vaccine. The shot targets BA.4 and BA.5, which now account for nearly all new infections in the U.S.

In an announcement, Pfizer-BioNTech requested emergency use authorization for a booster dose of the vaccine, which contains a combination of the genetic material mRNA from the original virus circulating when the vaccine was initially …

Coronavirus Could Create Opportunities to Green the Economy

In the days following Barack Obama’s election as president, incoming chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel made a bold declaration about how the administration would respond to the urgent financial crisis. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” he said, citing a range of challenges, from climate to health care, that might be addressed as part of a response to the Great Recession.

Politicians and policymakers are just beginning to understand how much pain the coronavirus pandemic will inflict, and it goes without saying that policy experts of all stripes universally agree that protecting human life should be the first priority. Even still, leaders are already jockeying about how to keep the crisis from “going to waste.” One area that many are targeti…

China’s November retail sales beat expectations

Industrial production rose 6.2% year-on-year in November, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday, beating the median forecast of 5.0% growth in a Reuters poll and quickening from 4.7% in October. It was also the fastest year-on-year growth in five months.Factory indicators for November have shown surprising improvement in manufacturing, suggesting government support measures are helping domestic demand, even as exports and producer prices shrank.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Japanese construction machinery maker Komatsu Ltd said its machine usage hours in China rose for the first time in eight months in November, echoing trends seen in two manufacturin…

Britons wear only half of the fashion they buy – Thought survey

And that means they’ll spend up to £36,000 on clothes that they don’t wear, according to the study from sustainable clothing brand Thought. It commissioned a survey of 2,000 consumers and found that UK shoppers buy 28 items of clothing on average annually, with 12 of them never being wornคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. And as many as 36% of shoppers admit that they don’t need the amount clothes they buy.

This is both good and bad news for the fashion industry’s bottom line as it pushes up sales, but it also means that there are likely to be more secondhand items circulating in the resale economy, and it also shines a further spotlight on any weak sustainability practice…

Exit of Flipkart CEO adds to fears in Corporate India about sexual misconduct

The real surge in demand came following the spread of India’s #MeToo movement, which in recent weeks has seen dozens of women publicly air sexual harassment allegations against prominent journalists, actors and other public figures.This week’s resignation of Binny Bansal, the chief executive of Walmart Inc’s Indian venture Flipkart, following an internal probe into accusations of personal misconduct, is expected to only add to the momentum. Flipkart’s Bansal has denied the misconduct accusations, which two sources told Reuters followed an allegation of sexual assault.But the sudden exit of the tech-savvy billionaire shocked Indian businesses as he was regarded as a superstar entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce company little more than a decade ago while still in his 20sคำพ…

Anti-poverty groups criticise rich countries over G7 tax deal

Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies agreed on Saturday to back the creation of a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15%, aiming to squeeze more money out of multinationals such as Amazon and Google and reduce their incentive to shift profits to low-tax offshore havens.Oxfam and Eurodad, a network of development agencies, said the new regime would entitle big companies’ home countries, often in the United States or Europe, to a larger share of the tax, leaving little for poor states where multinationals also operate.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

“The G7 is a small club of rich and powerful countries,” said Tove Ryding of Eurodad. “They have a…

H&M launches first-ever STEM programme in UK before global roll-out

So the Swedish fashion giant is launching its first-ever STEM programme in the UK this month before rolling out the programme globally. And the first initiative aims to “inspire women and non-binary people to reach for roles in STEM”.

In partnership with charity Stemettes, the programme will focus on “sustainability and style”. Participants will explore STEM’s “contribution to a more sustainable fashion future”.This will be achieved through a panel and networking event, a ‘hackathon’ and one-to-one mentoring by H&M’s ‘STEM role models’, who come from a range of fields including artificial intelligence, customer centric technology, assortment and product development. H&M said the programme marks “a key step in our quest to become more inclusive and diver…

Global Fashion Group opens giant logistics hub in Brazil

The move comes as the company, which owns Dafiti, Lamoda, Zalora and The Iconic, celebrates its 10-year anniversary with the group having made a €50 million investment in the hub that it said will serve more than 5 million customers across Brazil and over 1,000 brand partners “with greater speed and efficiency than ever”.Called LEAP, the company clearly thinks the facility is a big deal and said it “has the potential to revolutionise Brazil’s fashion e-commerce ecosystem and further boost the growth of Dafiti, GFG’s business in Latin America”.

The facility is near Sao Paulo and while it’s currently the largest fulfilment centre in the region, it also has “significant room to increase its capacity over time”. It also houses the largest AutoStore fulfilment automat…

Inditex joins plastic recycling consortium Whitecycle

Announced on August 9, the new gathering of businesses aims primarily to achieve the objectives set out by the European Union for 2030 concerning CO² emissions. The consortium predicts that, by the end of the decade, adopting circular solutions will make it possible to recycle over two million tonnes of PET (complex waste containing textiles) per year and to reduce local CO² emissions by two million tonnes. “PETs originating from end-of-life tires, pipes, and multi-layer garments are currently hard to recycle, but this could all soon change thanks to the results of the project,” said the participating businesses in a joint press releaseคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. “Raw mat…

Google closes deal to buy Fitbit as U.S. Justice Department probe continues

The Justice Department, which sued Alphabet Inc’s Google in October for allegedly violating antitrust law in its search and search advertising businesses, said it “has not reached a final decision about whether to pursue an enforcement action” regarding the Fitbit deal.Google said in a statement that it had worked with the department during a 14-month probe. “We continue to be in touch with them and we’re committed to answering any additional questions,” a Google spokesperson said.

It is rare for a big deal to close without antitrust approval.Australia has also not yet approved the transactionคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Google won EU antitrust approval last mon…