Economy
May 21
Apple CEO faces tough questions about app store competition
By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press
Month: May 2021
nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||20 Million Africans Are Due For Their 2nd COVID Shot. But There’s No Supply In Sight||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||African nations had been counting on Serum Institute of India for nearly all their COVID vaccines. Now the company says it won’t be sending any more for months. And African officials are scrambling.
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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US
(Dreamstime)
The Biden administration has been weighing changes to sweeping travel restrictions that bar much of the world’s population from coming to the United States. The EU is now taking steps to ease travel limits on non-EU visitors ahead of summer tourist season. But Biden has reached no decisions on U.S. limits, sources say.
nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||20 Million Africans Are Due For Their 2nd COVID Shot. But There’s No Supply In Sight||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||African nations had been counting on Serum Institute of India for nearly all their COVID vaccines. Now the company says it won’t be sending any more for months. And African officials are scrambling.
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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US
(Dreamstime)
The Biden administration has been weighing changes to sweeping travel restrictions that bar much of the world’s population from coming to the United States. The EU is now taking steps to ease travel limits on non-EU visitors ahead of summer tourist season. But Biden has reached no decisions on U.S. limits, sources say.
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nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||20 Million Africans Are Due For Their 2nd COVID Shot. But There’s No Supply In Sight||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||African nations had been counting on Serum Institute of India for nearly all their COVID vaccines. Now the company says it won’t be sending any more for months. And African officials are scrambling.
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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US
(Dreamstime)
The Biden administration has been weighing changes to sweeping travel restrictions that bar much of the world’s population from coming to the United States. The EU is now taking steps to ease travel limits on non-EU visitors ahead of summer tourist season. But Biden has reached no decisions on U.S. limits, sources say.
nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||20 Million Africans Are Due For Their 2nd COVID Shot. But There’s No Supply In Sight||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||African nations had been counting on Serum Institute of India for nearly all their COVID vaccines. Now the company says it won’t be sending any more for months. And African officials are scrambling.
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An older person receives their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Thika, Kenya. The vaccine’s manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, announced this week that it will freeze all exports of the vaccine through the end of this year — leaving 20 million people in Africa without a source for their second dose.
Patrick Meinhardt/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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20 Million Africans Are Due For Their 2nd COVID Shot. But There’s No Supply In Sight
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Economy
May 21
USDA to begin paying off loans of minority farmers in June
By Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press
nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||CDC Test Came With Inconsistent Instructions And Cost The U.S. Weeks In Its Pandemic Response||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||An internal report obtained by NPR shows the CDC’s early coronavirus test kits were poorly designed and that the instructions sent to labs to run the test were problematic.
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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US
(Dreamstime)
The Biden administration has been weighing changes to sweeping travel restrictions that bar much of the world’s population from coming to the United States. The EU is now taking steps to ease travel limits on non-EU visitors ahead of summer tourist season. But Biden has reached no decisions on U.S. limits, sources say.
nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||CDC Test Came With Inconsistent Instructions And Cost The U.S. Weeks In Its Pandemic Response||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||An internal report obtained by NPR shows the CDC’s early coronavirus test kits were poorly designed and that the instructions sent to labs to run the test were problematic.
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Biden Cautiously Considers Lifting Stiff COVID Limits on Travel to the US
(Dreamstime)
The Biden administration has been weighing changes to sweeping travel restrictions that bar much of the world’s population from coming to the United States. The EU is now taking steps to ease travel limits on non-EU visitors ahead of summer tourist season. But Biden has reached no decisions on U.S. limits, sources say.
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