LAHORE: In an effort to please the government almost all chambers, their federation and trade bodies hailed the budget 2021-22 immediately after its announcement not knowing the devil is in.
Johnson & Johnson takes over US Covid vaccine factory after 15m doses spoiled
5 Apr, 2021 06:00 AM
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Biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions, where a mishap spoiled 15m doses of Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine. Photo / Getty Images
Biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions, where a mishap spoiled 15m doses of Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine. Photo / Getty Images
Financial Times
By: Gregory Meyer in New York
A pharmaceutical plant that was producing ingredients for Covid-19 vaccines developed by both AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson will exclusively supply the latter company after a mistake by workers spoiled millions of doses. US-based J&J said it was assuming full responsibility at the plant in Baltimore owned by Emergent BioSolutions. UK-based AstraZeneca said it would move Covid-19 vaccine production out of the facility to another location.
Meet the 2021 head students for Taupō-nui-a-Tia College
3 Mar, 2021 08:33 PM
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Taupō-nui-a-Tia College head students for 2021: Rhea Paalvast, Lille-Lee Tupe, principal Peter Moyle, Boaz Mellor, Taine Hakiwai (right). Photo / Supplied
Taupō-nui-a-Tia College head students for 2021: Rhea Paalvast, Lille-Lee Tupe, principal Peter Moyle, Boaz Mellor, Taine Hakiwai (right). Photo / Supplied
Taupō-nui-a-Tia College was spoilt for choice with this year s potential head students.
Senior manager Stephen Fowler said 16 students came forward to take part in the student leadership selection process with very strong candidates for the head student positions. Last week the following students were named: head girl Rhea Paalvast, 17, head boy Boaz Mellor, 17, deputy head girl Lilli-Lee Tupe, 17, and deputy head boy Taine Hakiwai, 17.
Childhood spoiled for meager wages
Islamabad
February 28, 2021
Rawalpindi: Rawalpindi city recognized for its riches and rag pickers, finds Ali Yazdain, a boy in his early teens, hawking battery cells and other gadgets. He took up this job as his father is an alcoholic and is unable to bear the load of his family. Therefore, Ali Yazdain and his mother, a house cleaner, are shouldering the entire load.
‘’I was in the sixth class and doing well in school when all of a sudden I had to abandon studies and soon after that I found myself in city bazaars and streets with cells and other wares in both hands running from one person to another and making frantic efforts to sell the goods to them’’, says Ali Yazdain. The expression in his eyes shows that he has gone back to the past, though shortly.