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World Bank’s IFC to launch $4 billion medical supply financing platform
The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide demand for critical healthcare products, including masks and ventilators, now exceeds supply by more than $60 billion annually.
Covid-19 fatality rate declining progressively, total recoveries 9.88 lakh:Health Ministry
“Not only has the CFR been kept low, but successful implementation of effective containment strategy, aggressive testing and standardised clinical management protocols based on a holistic standard of care approach have in tandem resulted in a consistent trend of more than 30,000 recoveries per day for the sixth consecutive day,” the health ministry said.
Cat tests positive for coronavirus in England
Both the cat and the humans made a full recovery and there was no transmission to any other animals or people in the household, the ministry said without identifying the individuals involved.
“This is the first case of a domestic cat testing positive for COVID-19 in the UK but should not be a cause for alarm,” said Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England.
The WHO has said it will investigate the possibility of cat-to-human infection, but its chief scientist has said there is “very little risk” from domestic animals.
Floods,coronavirus hobble two of India’s poorest states
The floods in Assam, where at least nine one-horned rhinos have drowned in an inundated national park, have so far affected 5.7 million people, more than 45,000 of whom are still sheltered in makeshift relief centres.
In Bihar, floods have stranded more than 2.4 million people, with around 12,800 staying in government shelters, complicating efforts by officials to enforce social distancing measures to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus in the state.
Second wave of coronavirus in Asia prompts fresh lockdowns
While much of Asia is reimposing lockdowns and other curbs on movement, India continues to ease restrictions despite a relentless rise in infections. India has a total of 1.4 million cases, behind only the United States and Brazil.
AIR Worldwide releases updated Earthquake Model for Australia
“This model has been developed to meet the wide spectrum of earthquake risk management needs of the insurance industry and we took a careful and thoughtful approach in order to deliver this update,” said Dr. Jayanta Guin, executive vice president and chief research officer, AIR Worldwide.
India’s COVID-19 tally climbs to 13,85,522,death toll rises to 32,063
“The way we have fought coronavirus is really appreciable. Our fatality rate is much less than most other countries. We were able to save the lives of lakhs of people, but we have to remember that the coronavirus is still as dangerous as it was in the beginning, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. in his monthly radio programme called ‘Mann Ki Baat’.The COVID-19 death toll in the country rose to 32,063 with 705 fatalities being recorded in?a day, the data updated at 8 am showedThere are 4,67,882?active cases of coronavirus infection presently in the country.Thus, around 63.92 per cent people have recovered so far
Won’t lift lockdown just to address economic concerns:Maha CM Thackeray
“Many people are opposing lockdown. They say that lockdown is affecting the economy. To such people, I would say that I am ready to lift the lockdown, but if people die due to it, would you take the responsibility?…Even we are concerned about the economy,” Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said.
On the restarting of the suburban railway network in Mumbai, he said, “What if families fall ill and their houses are sealed? Therefore, everything would be done step-by-step.”
Shadow of second wave of the virus spoils world leaders’ efforts to restore normality
From Italy to New Zealand, irrespective of how well the virus was contained, governments acknowledge that fresh waves of the deadly coronavirus are likely and that the policy tools to mitigate the damage are limited.The hope is that localizing quarantines to towns, cities and regions will be enough to snuff out bouts of infections as they come.
Record numbers of coronavirus cases in every global region
“We will not be going back to the ‘old normal’. The pandemic has already changed the way we live our lives,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week. “We’re asking everyone to treat the decisions about where they go, what they do and who they meet with as life-and-death decisions – because they are.”