The German pharmaceutical company Biontech plans to offer data on the inoculation against the coronavirus with its vaccine in children between five and 11 years old at the end of September. The dose for this age group will be 10 micrograms, a third of the adult dose, Özlem Türeci, co-founder of…
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The pandemic speeds up the fall in the use of cash
About 54 % of the Spanish population prefers to pay with a debit card and 36.6 % choose to pay with bills and coins. This was demonstrated by the national survey on the use of cash in 2020, carried out by the Bank of Spain to the general…
Chile seeks to recover its economy through liquidity injection
Chile has one of the strongest economies in Latin America. However, it does not escape global financial, social and political instability. In order to meet these challenges, the Executive of Sebastián Piñera announced that he will raise the…
Mercosur bets on eliminating roaming in 2020
Mercosur member countries recently signed a trade agreement with the European Union. Although no details are known, nor effective date, the four South American nations move forward in making crucial decisions for their populations and the…
Ecopetrol starts fracking pilot plan in Colombia
Colombia started the fracking pilot plan through state-owned Ecopetrol. The president of the oil company Felipe Bayón elaborated a summary of the aspects that were considered in the preliminary study, which included the "current situation…
Eatbch non-profit organization celebrates first year of life
The Venezuelan non-profit organization Eatbch celebrates a year of action in favor of the most needy communities both in Venezuela and in South Sudan, where it has extended its work.
Eatbch works with funding from the Bitcoin Cash…
Turkey eliminates packaging advertising for tobacco
Australia became the first country in 2012 to fully implement the simple tobacco packaging proposed by WHO in its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. France, Ireland and the United Kingdom passed laws in this regard since May 2016.…
One third of the world’s population is not banked
Technological advances in the banking sector have created a gap that continues to grow with respect to developing countries. This translates into an exclusion of one third of the world's population from the financial world.
One could think…
Kiev accepts crypto payments for edible products
Kiev's main foodstuffs market, Bessarabsky, has set a milestone in the whole of Ukraine by approving the payment in cryptocurrencies for several items, thanks to the alliance with the encrypted payment processor Paytomat.
Citizens will…