Taiwan's Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp said on Thursday that it was seeking a speedy emergency use authorisation, or EUA, from the government for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate after safely completing phase II trials.
Norwegian oil services firm Aker Solutions said on Thursday one of its managers was being questioned by Malaysian authorities and three sources familiar with the case said they expected charges to be brought on Friday.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will start testing on June 15 its first power interconnector with Britain, North Sea Link (NSL), Norwegian transmission system operator Statnett said on Tuesday.
The testing of the cable follows the opening last month of Norway’s first direct power link to Germany, the 1,400 MW NordLink interconnector.
Both Germany and Britain aim to benefit from Norway’s vast hydropower resources to help to balance their intermittent wind power, while Norway can import cheap surplus renewable energy to save water in its hydropower reservoirs. Norway’s electricity is almost all hydropower based.
Norway is already connected to the Netherlands via the 700 megawatt (MW) subsea interconnector NordNed and to Denmark through the Skagerrak connection.
Malaysia and Taiwan are expecting deliveries of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in Thailand to be delayed, officials said this week, the latest countries to report a holdup with orders from the Thai plant.
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COPENHAGEN, May 28 (Reuters) - Denmark this week began incinerating 4 million mink that had been culled to curb COVID-19 mutations but began to resurface from mass burial sites, prompting renewed health concerns.
The Danish government last year decided to cull all of the country’s 17 million mink to curb a COVID-19 mutation and because the mammal was considered likely to host future mutations.
Some were buried in pits in a military area in western Denmark under two metres of soil only for some to resurface in less than a month.
Contaminants were later found under the graves in an examination carried out on behalf of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, prompting the government to order the incineration of the the animals.