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World Bank approves $100 million to improve disaster response in Odisha
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President Xi warns against complacency as China downgrades COVID-19 risk levels in all regions
Addressing the meeting on Thursday, Xi said the spread of the virus overseas has not been effectively curbed yet and cluster cases were reported in a few areas in China, posing considerable uncertainty to the epidemic control.
India to roll out COVID-19 app for Reliance’s JioPhone in bid to widen use
Within a week, a version of the the Aarogya Setu (Health Bridge) app will be rolled out to more than 100 million users of the $9 JioPhone – a cheap, internet-enabled feature phone that runs on a mobile operating system named KaiOS, a senior government official told Reuters.
Munich Re expects Coronavirus-Related claims in excess of $1 Billion during 2020
Finance chief Christoph Jurecka said, however, he would be “very surprised” if the company failed to post a profit in 2020.“Uncertainty is extremely high,” he told journalists by telephone. “No one knows how this pandemic will develop.”
RMS unveils high definition models for European severe convective storm
“The multi-peril stochastic set includes over 7.5 million events, covering 17 countries, based on 50,000 years of simulations, so that we appropriately capture the spatial and temporal scale of convective storm risk in the European modelling domain,” said Mohsen Rahnama, chief risk modeling officer, RMS, said.
Recent events have shown the potential cost of this peril for the re/insurance industry, said RMS, noting that from 2013 to 2019, losses from major and attritional severe convective storms in Europe exceeded €12 billion (US$13 billion),said RMS in a statement.
“Businesses need to restart facilities with care and caution after coronavirus lockdown”:AGCS
“Restoring operations at a facility that was once idle or vacant presents another set of loss prevention challenges, particularly to manufacturing plants with hazardous equipment or processes,” explains Stephen Clark, Global Technical & Expertise Manager for Property Risk Consulting at AGCS.
Gilead in talks to expand global supply of COVID-19 drug remdesivir
Gilead also said on Tuesday it was negotiating long-term licenses with several generic drugmakers in India and Pakistan to produce remdesivir for developing countries and that it would provide technology to aid the production.
‘No security breach in Aarogya Setu App’: Govt assures after ethical hacker raises privacy concerns
The app fetches users’ location and stores on the server in a secure, encrypted, anonymised manner – at the time of registration, at the time of self assessment, when users submit their contact tracing data voluntary through the app or when it fetches the contact tracing data of users after they have turned COVID-19 positive, it said.
Israel isolates coronavirus antibody in ‘significant breakthrough’:Minister
The “monoclonal neutralising antibody” developed at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) “can neutralise it (the disease-causing coronavirus) inside carriers’ bodies,” Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement.
COVID-19 death toll touches 1,694; cases rise to 49,391
Maharashtra, which is battling surge in COVID-19 cases, has requested the hospitals under the Railways, the Army and other Central undertakings to make their facilities in the state available to the government which is planning to ramp up the number of ICU beds
India now has 52,952 cases of coronavirus, death toll 1783: health ministry
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday expressed his concern over the high fatality rate among COVID-19 patients in some districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat and asked the states to focus on early surveillance, aggressive contact tracing and early diagnosis to reduce the number of deaths.