Boots suspends booking for flu jabs amid ‘unprecedented demand’

Boots suspends booking for flu jabs amid ‘unprecedented demand’ after Britons were told to get vaccinated to ease burden of second Covid-19 wave The high-street chemist is now limiting vaccines for society’s most vulnerable NHS says it wants to inoculate a record 30million people against flu this year  An influx of influenza and Covid-19 patients could … Read more

Twitter suspends Chinese virologist who claims COVID-19 was lab-made

Twitter has suspended the account of a Chinese virologist who has publicly claimed that COVID-19 was developed in a Wuhan laboratory.  Li-Meng Yan’s account was taken down on Tuesday after she accused China of intentionally manufacturing and releasing COVID-19.  The Twitter account remained down on Wednesday and a message on the page now reads: ‘Account … Read more

Twitter suspends Chinese virologist who claims COVID-19 was lab-made

Twitter has suspended the account of a Chinese virologist who has publicly claimed that COVID-19 was developed in a Wuhan laboratory.  Li-Meng Yan’s account was taken down on Tuesday after she accused China of intentionally manufacturing and releasing COVID-19.  The Twitter account remained down on Wednesday and a message on the page now reads: ‘Account … Read more

Labour suspends councillor over anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

Labour suspends London councillor accused of supporting a conspiracy theory that Jews murdered each other in the Holocaust as part of a masterplan to create the state of Israel Preston Tabois is accused of voicing support for Ukip election candidate in 2013  She claimed Jews killed each other in Holocaust to allow them to create … Read more

Vivienne Westwood suspends herself 10ft in the air inside a giant bird cage outside the Old Bailey

Dame Vivienne Westwood has suspended herself in a giant birdcage outside The Old Bailey to protest the extradition of Julian Assange to the US. Westwood, dressed in a yellow trouser suit, enacted the metaphor of ‘The Canary In Coal Mine’, which is meant to symbolise Assange being sacrificed for the ‘poison’ in the political system.   … Read more

Brazil Central Bank suspends WhatsApp mobile payments for review less than two weeks after release

Brazil Central Bank suspends WhatsApp mobile payments for review less than two weeks after release Brazil has suspended WhatsApp’s mobile payment feature It will review if the feature meets the country’s regulatory standards The decision comes less than two weeks after the feature’s release WhatsApp has yet to expand mobile payments elsewhere  By James Pero … Read more

Honda suspends global production after cyber-attack

Honda suspends production at factories around the world after discovering computer virus in company servers The Japanese automaker discovered a virus in servers in its Tokyo headquarters While investigating the issue, the company suspended global production The suspensions lasted a day, and most facilities have come back online again  No sensitive data was breached and … Read more

Qantas suspends plans to launch 19-and-a-half-hour direct flights from London and New York to Sydney

Qantas suspends plans to launch 19-and-a-half-hour direct flights from London and New York to Sydney and shelves order for 12 Airbus A350s for the services CEO Alan Joyce said it was not the right time to pursue the order due to Covid-19 Last year, Qantas carried out test flights from New York and London to … Read more

Utah government suspends contract with data collection company founded by ‘former KKK member’

The Utah Attorney General’s Office and multiple law enforcement agencies across the state have suspended their contracts with a surveillance company after reports that its founder had previously been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The company, Banjo.io, uses AI to analyze GPS data, images and video scrapped from social media posts, surveillance cameras, … Read more

Corona beer suspends production due to coronavirus

Corona beer suspends production due to coronavirus The lager brand will not be produced after Mexico deemed it non-essential Brewery Grupo Modelo said it was scaling down operations to a ‘bare minimum’ But it suggested it could keep brewing beer if it was deemed to be agriculture  By Tim Stickings For Mailonline and Afp Published: … Read more