The average number of employees in 3Q20 equaled to 645.6 thousand, which is year-on-year 7.2% less – Geostat released a report yesterday.

The production value of the business sector bares a decreasing tendency. In the same quarter of 2020, its volume equaled to 11.6 billion GEL, which is year-on-year 8.8% less – Geostat released a report yesterday.

The volume of business sector turnover increased by 0.6% and amounted to 29.2 billion GEL in the 3Q20 compared to the same quarter of the previous year – Geostat released a report yesterday.

The average number of employees in 3Q20 equaled to 645.6 thousand, which is year-on-year 7.2% less; Out of the total number of employees, 40.8% are female and 59.2% are male – Geostat released a report yesterday.

The volume of business sector turnover increased by 0.6% and amounted to 29.2 billion GEL in the 3Q20 compared to the same quarter of the previous year – Geostat released a report yesterday.

From February 2021 every Georgian can grab any desired item from a grocery store in an unbelievable order: without a cashier, a queue, and a scanning.

Reuters - Facebook Inc on Thursday said it would remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, following a similar announcement by Alphabet Inc’s YouTube in October.

The Committee of Ministers of the 47-nation Council of Europe has adopted an Interim Resolution (*) expressing profound concern that the just satisfaction awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the Georgia v. Russia (I) case has not yet been paid.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $2.5 million grant to support Georgia’s ongoing response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Warner Bros has announced plans to offer limited streaming of each of its 2021 films on HBO Max concurrent with the movies’ theatrical debuts.

Warning labels and fact checks have not stopped President Trump from continuing to spread conspiracy theories and use violent rhetoric on Twitter, but after Inauguration Day, those kinds of tweets could land the outgoing president in hot water, and eventually cause him to be banned by the platform, a Twitter spokesperson told Forbes Thursday.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk remains “highly confident” that his company will land humans on Mars by 2026, saying on Tuesday that it’s an achievable goal “about six years from now.”

"If we used to detect 700 to 800 positive cases with antigen test daily, according to today's data, 1,442 were detected only by antigen test and 3,600 PCR. If it expands in the coming days, we will have even more cases. We are showing more cases due to the extended testing, but by identifying relatively mild or asymptomatic people at an early stage will give us better results," said the head of the NCDC.

"Demands for online services have increased. If in the past, companies were less interested in online services, today we face a different reality and demand is high. So, we start training for the members on online sales, "- said the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Giorgi Pertaia.

"We must consider the specific demands that we voiced yesterday and addressed to both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Economy. We know that it will not be a meeting for the meeting. We hope that effective decisions will be made at the meeting", Levan Kokiashvili said.

“Wine cellars are in a catastrophic state and will get even worse as most of them do not work on export. Their main activity is based on tourism. However, 100% of their income was generated from tourists. In the best case, wine was sold on the domestic market. Today, none of them is active".

"Despite the full mobilization of human resources of 112, in parallel with the aggravation of the epidemic situation, the load has significantly increased. The reserve contingent is also being prepared for the full functioning of the Unified Government Hotline - 144", the agency said in the statement.

"The government helped the construction sector when there was not such a difficult condition. However, now when we have the worse wave it really can’t be stopped. Concrete steps must be taken," Rostomashvili said.

However, in mid-November UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a "green industrial revolution" plan, and said that the UK will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030, a decade sooner than originally planned.

According to financial calculations, up to 1000 anticipated applications will enjoy the reduction during six months from December 7, 2020. Anticipated amount of money from new applications on which the reduction will apply is about 1 350 000 GEL.