Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a face mask or stay within half a meter of others in most environments, whether outdoors or indoors, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the matter told NBC News. There are a handful of cases where people still have to wear masks – in healthcare,…

United Airlines aircraft, including a Boeing 737 MAX 9 model, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas on March 18, 2019. Loren Elliott | Reuters Boeing shares rose nearly 3% Thursday morning after U.S. airlines repaired dozen of 737 Max planes last month that were on the ground due to an electrical…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two US Senators wrote a letter on Thursday calling on the Federal Trade Commission to do more to protect American consumers from travel fraud. In response to reports that travel and tourism-related fraud has increased – for example, scammers posing as travel advisors or creating…

The Arsenal players in a group before the Premier League match between Chelsea and Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on May 12, 2021 in London, England. David Price | Arsenal FC | Getty Images The Premier League has received general approval for a three-year extension of its TV rights agreement with UK broadcast partners, including Sky…

A woman with an umbrella walks in a street in the capital Victoria of the Seychelles. Valery Sharifulin | TASS | Getty Images Seychelles worries world health experts after a surge in Covid-19 cases in fully vaccinated people. The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that it would review coronavirus data from the Seychelles, an archipelago…

Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China – Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped from the entire cryptocurrency market after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the electric vehicle maker would stop buying cars with bitcoin. According to Coinmarketcap.com, the value of the entire cryptocurrency market was around $ 2.43 trillion at…

The world is facing a huge shortage of Covid-19 vaccines, and surrendering intellectual property rights is not going to solve the “most immediate problem”, says the global CEO of an Indian pharmaceutical company. “I’m not sure if an IP waiver at this point is something that … can solve an immediate problem,” said Umang Vohra…

Ariel Skelley | DigitalVision | Getty Images A lack of paid vacations and access to quality childcare has long been a problem for working parents in the US, proponents argue. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the problem as some parents – mostly women – leave their jobs to look after their children. A September…

On Friday, March 12th, 2021, Rebel Foods Ltd. Prepared a Wendy food order in Noida, India. Bloomberg | Getty Images The breakfast bet is paying off as Wendy reported a better-than-expected result on Wednesday and raised the forecast for the year. The fast food chain’s stocks fell about 2% recently as stocks in the broader…

Tetra Images | Tetra Pictures | Getty Images In the past year, legislators enacted many tax breaks for companies due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now the Biden administration is encouraging the hardest hit companies to take advantage of a particularly large tax break, the employee loyalty loan. The Loan Loan was first introduced in the…