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Gallagher launches Pandemic group insurance product for India’s Front-Line Workforce
“Insurance products generally exclude pandemics, epidemics and infectious disease management in a commercial environment. As such, a COVID-19 specific solution for the India market presents a practical solution for the business community and our clients, and we are delighted to be able to reach this point,” Wade concluded.
World leaders pledge $8 billion to fight COVID-19 but U.S. steers clear
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has recovered from a life-threatening battle with COVID-19, said the search for a vaccine was “the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetime”, calling for “an impregnable shield around all our people”.
Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials
“We’ve been working on [reducing the reliance of our supply chains in China] over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative,” Keith Krach, undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department told Reuters.
The pandemic has highlighted China’s key role in the supply chain for generic drugs here that account for the majority of prescriptions in the United States. It has also shown China’s dominance in goods like here the thermal cameras needed to test workers for fevers, and its importance in food supplies.
Global coronavirus cases surpass 3.5 million amid underreporting fears
Globally, there were 74,779 new cases over the past 24 hours, according to the Reuters tally that is based on official government data, taking total cases to around 3.52 million.
“We could easily have a second or a third wave because a lot of places aren’t immune,” Collignon said, noting the world was well short of herd immunity, which requires around 60% of the population to have recovered from the disease.Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at Canberra Hospital, told Reuters
UK doctor alerts Indians to poor diet link with COVID-19 deaths
A recent report in the ‘Nature’ science journal revealed that patients with Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome might have up to 10 times greater risk of death when they contract COVID-19 and called for mandatory glucose and metabolic control of Type 2 diabetes patients to improve outcomes.
All domestic, international flight operations suspended till 17 May
A DGCA circular further stated, “However, it is reiterated that foreign and domestic airlines shall be suitably informed about the opening of their operations whether international to/from India or domestic respectively in due course.”
Covid-19 Pandemic:Confirmed cases cross 40,000,1,323 dead,record 2,644 new cases detected in last 24 hours
In a significant milestone in its fight against the novel Coronavirus,India has completed over 1 million Covid-19 RT-PCR tests (Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction).According to ICMR, a total of 1046450 samples have been tested as on 03 May 2020, 9 AM IST.RT-PCR is the only diagnostic test for Covid-19 approved by the World Health Organization.India is current carrying out an average of 75,000 tests per day at 419 approved laboratories across the country.
Covid-19 will make life tough for non-life insurers: experts
“The Covid-19 will surely have its negative impact on the Indian non-life insurance industry as the lockdown is expected to continue in one way or other. There will be a drop in the business for the first quarter while improvement is expected in the second quarter of FY 21,” G. Srinivasan,Director, National Insurance Academy and former chairman-cum-managing director, New India Assurance
Asia prepares for everyday life with Covid
As cities in Asia, Australia and elsewhere get their coronavirus outbreaks underneath management, church buildings, faculties, eating places, film theaters and even sporting venues are beginning to open, creating a way of normalcy for individuals who have spent weeks and even months in isolation.
COVID-19 death toll rises to 1,218, cases to 37,336
A total of 66 deaths were reported since Friday evening of which 26 fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, 22 from Gujarat, eight from Madhya Pradesh, four from Rajasthan, two from Delhi and one each from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana and Tamil Nadu.