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Caronavirus Pandemic:“Wimbledon”cancellation trigger £100 million insurance claims
“We’re fortunate to have the insurance and it helps,” The Guardian quoted AELTC chief executive Richard Lewis as saying on Thursday. “The insurers, the brokers, and everybody involved have been excellent to work with so far, but there’s still a lot of work to do.”
Outgoing chief executive Lewis revealed a virus clause was put into the All England Club’s insurance policy in 2003 due to fears over the scale of the SARS disease
WHO, IMF say saving lives ‘prerequisite’ to save jobs
“At face value, there is a trade-off to make: either save lives or save livelihoods. This is a false dilemma getting the virus under control is, if anything, a prerequisite to saving livelihoods.”
Caronavirus Pandemic:30% infections linked to Tablighi centre,death toll nears 100-mark
Sharing the age-group analysis of COVID-19 patients, Agarwal said the maximum 42 per cent are of 21-40 years, 33 per cent of 41-60 years, 17 per cent are above 60 years and 9 per cent are of 0-20 years.
The elderly people and those with other medical complications are said to be at higher risk in this pandemic. In Delhi also, five of the six COVID-19 patients who have died were above 60.
COVID-19 testing, treatment free for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries at pvt labs, empanelled hosps
“Testing and treatment of COVID-19 is already available for free in public facilities. Now, more than 50 crore citizens, eligible under the health assurance scheme will be able to avail free testing through private labs and treatment for COVID-19 in empanelled hospitals,” it said in a statement.
Business activity collapses across Europe as coronavirus lockdowns spread
Italy and Spain have so far taken the biggest hit on the continent from the pandemic but all four of the currency union’s top economies – and Britain, which recently left the European Union – saw activity collapse.
ICMR issues advisory for rapid antibody-based blood tests for COVID-19
The move comes in the wake of the country reporting 3072 COVID-19 cases including 75 deaths so far.The results of antibody tests similar to blood tests are available in 15-30 minutes.
Mainland China sees rise in new coronavirus cases
Though daily infections have fallen dramatically from the height of the epidemic in February, when hundreds of new cases were reported daily, Beijing remains unable to completely halt new infections despite imposing some of the most drastic measures to curb the virus’ spread.
Health-Care providers see surge in ransomware attacks in Europe, U.S.
An attack on a health-care provider locks down computers that typically contain electronic medical records, Siegel said, meaning that doctors and nurses can’t access information about their patients’ medical histories, the dosages of drugs that patients require and other critical information.
India records highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases as tally reaches 2,547
“The cases can be traced in Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Delhi, Himachal, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh,” added Aggarwal.
Why is New Orleans’ coronavirus death rate twice New York’s? Obesity is a factor
New Orleans residents suffer from obesity, diabetes and hypertension at rates higher than the national average, conditions that doctors and public health officials say can make patients more vulnerable to COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
Some 97% of those killed by COVID-19 in Louisiana had a pre-existing condition, according to the state health department. Diabetes was seen in 40% of the deaths, obesity in 25%, chronic kidney disease in 23% and cardiac problems in 21%.