Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing. At least 700 million of these people will require access to ear and hearing care and other rehabilitation services unless action is taken.

Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday before this week’s OPEC+ meeting, with producers in the group expected to ease supply curbs as economies start to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

Roughly 44.3 million people resident in Germany were in employment in January 2021 according to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment rose slightly by 14,000, or 0.0%, in January 2021 compared with the previous month. Agreed earnings in the country rose by an average 2.1% in 2020 compared with 2019.

In the 4th quarter of 2020 the volume of investments in Hungarian economy reached US$13,479,467,958 (4 093.4 billion HUF), an increase by 2.5% compared to the same period of the previous year and by 4.8% compared to the previous quarter (seasonally adjusted), following the decline measured in the first three quarters of the year.

This process lacks Benjamin Netanyahu in my country – this quote by George Gotsadze, President and CEO at Curatio International Foundation (CIF), on the COVID-vaccination process in Georgia in need of serious political leadership has totally preoccupied my mind for the last month or so since the online interview was recorded for Forbes Health platform. In this Editor’s Note, through basic FAQs, I will try to show you – why this quote is so central to the big picture that all of us have to deal with today.

Exports from Turkey increased by 2.3%, import decreased by 5.9% respectively in January 2021. Foreign trade deficit decreased by 32.8% during the report period. Turkey’s main partner for exports was Germany. The top country for imports was China.

A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction on Monday for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain’s World War II leader.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the global travel landscape and U.S. no-frills carriers are pouncing.

The number of new coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in seven weeks, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

According to the survey of 60,000 enterprises in cultural and related industries above designated size in China, in 2020, the above-mentioned enterprises achieved an operating revenue of US$ 1,524,323,869,380 (9,851.4 billion yuan), which was 2.2 percent higher than that of the previous year, with a decrease of 0.6 percent in the first three quarters; 16 industries with obvious characteristics of new cultural formats achieved an operating revenue of US$486,229,283,250 (3,142.5 billion yuan), with an increase of 22.1 percent.

The inflation expectations of households in Kazakhstan have somewhat decreased, the results of the January survey conducted by the National Bank of Kazakhstan have shown. The quantitative estimate of the inflation expectations for the year ahead amounted to 6.7%, compared to 7.6% in December 2020.

Tbilisi and Batumi International Airports updated information regarding scheduled flights from Tbilisi and Batumi.

During the several-hour sitting of the Parliament, the issue of 2 vacant positions of the Georgian Communications Commission was discussed. At the March 1 sitting of the Sectoral Economics and Economic Policy Committee, Parliament supported 2 of the six candidates nominated for the vacant position.

Volvo Cars is only going to sell electric vehicles by 2030, the Swedish firm has said.

India is ready to offer incentives to ensure Tesla Inc’s cost of production would be less than in China if the carmaker commits to making its electric vehicles in the south Asian country, transport minister Nitin Gadkari told Reuters.

U.S. e-commerce group eBay and Norway’s Adevinta planned to sell three smaller British units in order to secure regulatory approval for a long-planned tie-up of their global classified ads businesses, the two firms said on Tuesday.

Zoom boss Eric Yuan, whose business exploded during the pandemic, says working from home is here to stay.

The French government says older people with pre-existing conditions can now get AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, revising its stance on the issue.

“As you know, the NCDC makes purchases through the United Nations Children's Fund. Rest assured that the first batch of vaccines from the Covax platform will arrive this month and vaccination will start in Georgia with the vaccine from Covax platform, most likely with the Astrazeneka vaccine", - Gamkrelidze said.

The parties discussed the macro-economic challenges against the pandemic, situation in the bank sector, economic growth, GEL rate and inflation, as well as solvency and liquidity of the financial sector. Gvenetadze introduced the preliminary data of the bank sector for 2020.