LEPL of the Ministry of Health purchased automobiles worth 426,367 GEL. The media asked the Deputy Minister of Health Tamar Gabunia today about the purpose of the purchase.

The penalty for violation of the newly imposed restrictions will be GEL 2,000. Legal entities will be fined GEL 10,000.

Microsoft has been criticised for enabling “workplace surveillance” after privacy campaigners warned that the company’s “productivity score” feature allows managers to use Microsoft 365 to track their employees’ activity at an individual level - The Guardian reports.

Elon Musk has said SpaceX will perform the first proper flight of Starship next week after a successful test firing of the Mars-bound spacecraft.

The very last Concorde to roll off the production line took its final flight 17 years ago today. Not only was this the last flight of G-BOAF, it was also the very last time a Concorde would take to the skies.

Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson has put his 2020 troubles behind him with the announcement of a $3.6 billion war chest to develop technology that will take Dyson products outside of the home for the very first time.

France is leading a push for European Union sanctions on Turkey next month to follow through on a threat made by the bloc in October, but has yet to win support from EU governments beyond Greece and Cyprus, officials and diplomats have said

Disquiet is growing over the way that Oxford university and AstraZeneca have handled the early readout from trials of their coronavirus vaccine, which much of the developing world may rely on to emerge from the pandemic.

Disney will lay off 32,000 staffers in the first half of 2021 as the company continues to deal with the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic on its businesses, with lockdowns forcing the closure of its theme parks and low theater attendance severely impacting box office sales.

The U.S. State Department has informed staff that the transition process has begun and a team had been assigned inside the agency to support a handover to the incoming Biden administration, according to an internal email seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Shares in the electric car maker led by CEO Elon Musk rose almost 3% on Wednesday and have now surged 40% since Nov. 16, when it was announced Tesla would join the S&P 500 in December. Investors rushed to buy shares ahead of index funds that will be forced to acquire over $50 billion of its shares.

The real accrued wages of employees in Russia increased by 3.4% in September 2020, compared to August 2020.

The majority of retailers located at East Point have started rolling out discounts in the days ahead of the official start of Black Friday – the biggest shopping day of the year. On average 40% discounts are offered by retailers, planning deeper discounts on Nov 27.

"We all understand what the mobility on New Year’s Eve will be like, but observing basic rules will be of vital importance, determining how well we carry on through January," - Gakharia said.

"The number of people turning up to vote for further democratic advancement of the country has evidenced that we should not have postponed the elections," - said Giorgi Gakharia

"Situation is challenging, though everything is manageable and similar to the times before August, when all of us together managed to strike a balance together with our citizens, medical doctors and police in essence in the best possible manner between economic interests of the country and human health, we should return to those indicators," said Prime Minister of Georgia.

The euro retreated on Thursday after briefly hitting a near three-month high against the dollar as concerns about rising coronavirus cases in Europe grew.

PM noted that the country was one of the best before August in terms of managing the pandemic.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

The total volume of non-bank deposits in the country′ s banking sector decreased by 1.71% or by 561.89 million GEL (exchange rate effect excluded volume of deposits decreased by 0.66%), compared to October 1, 2020 and constituted 32.28 billion GEL by November 1, 2020.