by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Germany and Spain are among nine countries in Europe who have told India they will accept travellers inoculated with Covishield, the Indian-made version of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, Indian foreign ministry sources said on Thursday. Friction emerged between...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Voicing concern over many countries failing to vaccinate their people, WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday called for vaccinating at least 10 per cent of the population of every country by September as he described vaccination as the best way to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Pension & Social Security, Policy
Geneva: Countries must prepare for future crises by setting up a Global Fund for Social Protection, a new international financing mechanism that will help protect their populations from the next pandemic says a new report presented today by Olivier De Schutter,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Risk Management
Black Carbon has a significant adverse effect on human health and can lead to a premature death, according to a new study, which could help improve the estimation of the future air pollution mortality burden. The Indo-Gangetic plain is exposed to Black Carbon...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Saheb Rao Shinde's family thought the worst was over when the 65-year-old recovered from COVID-19 last month at his home in western India. But a few weeks later, the revenue-stamp vendor lost sight in one eye. After a catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 in India...
