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Jack Dorsey is investing $1 billion into his new venture Start Small to help towards COVID-19 relief efforts.
Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have joined forces with Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff and media company DMGT to send a plane load of PPE to London's Heathrow airport from China.
At long last, a new coronavirus stimulus package is finally set to be passed by the US Congress. The last one expired at the end of July. Business Insider reports the long-awaited package will reportedly contain $600 stimulus checks and an extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits. While the House has passed multiple bills that would have offered more to Americans, the GOP-controlled Senate has balked until now. However, the deal hasn't been well-received in the Twitterverse, and has produced references to class warfare and revolution. 'Let them eat cake' trended on Twitter in response to the apparently inadequate $600 stimulus check. It's a famous utterance attributed to Marie Antoinette, representing the out-of-touch monied, ruling class overthrown in the French Revolution.
Pasig City, Apr 17 (EFE/EPA).- The local government of Pasig City in Metro Manila area on Friday distributed food coupons to its residents as part of a relief program for students and citizens affected by the coronavirus lockdown.Each Pasig City student is alloted 400-pesos (around $8) worth of coupons that can be used by a legitimate relative to purchase food in designated markets within the city. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA). SHOT LIST: THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD COUPONS AS PART OF COVID-19 RELIEF EFFORTS AND RESIDENTS BUY FOOD AT A MOBILE MARKET USING FOOD COUPONS PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AT A MOBILE MARKET IN PASIG CITY, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
Cape Town's health department deploys a mobile vaccination service, locally known as the "Vaxi Taxi", in Manenberg, offering Covid-19 vaccines to one of the city's biggest townships. South Africa has entered its fourth wave of Covid infections, driven by the emergence of the Omicron variant. IMAGES
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