{"id":560305,"date":"2021-02-23T04:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/02\/23\/what-were-tracking-on-23-february-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T04:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T04:28:46","slug":"what-were-tracking-on-23-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/02\/23\/what-were-tracking-on-23-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking on 23 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy hump day, everyone.<\/strong> It may be a relatively slow news day, but we\u2019re still very happy that the weekend is within arm\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n

THE BIG STORY AT HOME:<\/strong> The shipment of 300k Sinopharm vaccines we\u2019ve been waiting on from China landed in Cairo in the wee hours of the morning. We have all the details in this morning\u2019s Covid Watch, below.<\/p>\n

THE BIG STORY INTERNATIONALLY:<\/strong> The US just crossed the very grim milestone of having half a mn deaths from covid-19. That\u2019s more deaths than the US sustained in World War I, World War I, and the Vietnam War combined, President Joe Biden said last night<\/a>. The milestone comes just a little over a year after the US recorded its first covid-19 death in California last year, and means the US now accounts for around 19% of all deaths caused by the disease globally. The story is front-page news pretty much everywhere: The Wall Street Journal<\/a> | Bloomberg<\/a> | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A CLOSE SECOND- Agent Orange\u2019s financial wrongdoings could finally see the light of<\/strong> day<\/strong> after the US Supreme Court blocked former president Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers\u2019 last ditch attempts to shield his tax returns and related documents from an investigation, the New York Times<\/a> reports. The scope of the inquiry is still unclear, but could be related to tax and ins. fraud, and to alleged payoffs to women who said they had had affairs with Trump. The story is also getting play in Reuters<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, and the Associated Press<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

A taste of what\u2019s to come:<\/strong> Dive into the Gray Lady\u2019s investigation<\/a> from last year looking at two decades worth of Trump\u2019s tax data, which show he avoided paying federal income taxes for 11 years, and paid just USD 750 (no, we\u2019re not missing a mn or bn there) in each of 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Expect an SMS if you just used a prepaid mobile scratch card:<\/strong> The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has issued new guidelines<\/a> for mobile network operators that requires them to send a text message notifying their customers of new activity or changes to their mobile accounts when using prepaid cards. This means you will get a text alert if you just topped up your mobile phone, or if you were charged any service fees or tax.<\/p>\n

<\/a> *** CATCH UP QUICK on the top stories from yesterday\u2019s edition of EnterprisePM:<\/strong><\/p>\n