by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 24, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
The Delta variant, the significantly more transmissible strain of COVID-19, is expected to become a dominant lineage if current trends continue, the WHO has warned after it was reported in 85 countries and continues to be detected in more places around the world. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 24, 2021 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Technology
Launching one of the richest individuals on earth into orbit has proved a leap too far for insurers, who are not ready to price the risk of losing Jeff Bezos or his fellow space travelers. Amazon CEO Bezos, a lifelong space enthusiast, has been vying with Elon...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 24, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology
New Delhi: India's largest air cargo carrier SpiceXpress and Delhivery have signed a memorandum of understanding with supply chain services provider Delhivery to build drone delivery capability in the country. While Delhivery has disrupted the Indian...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 24, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: S&P Global Ratings on Thursday cut India's growth forecast for the current fiscal to 9.5 per cent, from 11 per cent earlier, and warned of risk to the outlook from further waves of COVID pandemic. The agency lowered the growth outlook saying that a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 24, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
A single dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine offers around 60 per cent protection against infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, in adults aged 65 years and above, according to a new study published in the The Lancet Infectious....