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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari A total 130 agromet field units...
LIC shares cross Rs 1,000 mark, GIC re touches issue price of Rs 433 for the first time
The shares of New India Assurance(NIA) also rose almost 10 per cent...
New studies clarify what drugs help, hurt in fight against Covid-19
DEXAMETHASONE reduced deaths by 36% for patients sick enough to need breathing machines: 29% on the drug died versus 41% given usual care. It curbed the risk of death by 18% for patients needing just supplemental oxygen: 23% on the drug died versus 26% of the others.
No,coronavirus cannot be transmitted from mosquitoes to humans,says study
“While the World Health Organisation (WHO) has definitively stated that mosquitoes cannot transmit the virus, our study is the first to provide conclusive data supporting the theory,” said study researcher Stephen Higgs from Kansas State University in the US.
Mumbai’s Covid-19 recovery rate better than national average: Data
According to the data released by Maharashtra Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) on Friday, the number of active cases in Mumbai was 24,307, while 67,830 patients have recovered from the infection so far.
The Covid-19 recovery rate in Mumbai stood at 50 per cent around mid-June, when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched “Mission Zero” under the Rapid Action Plan to contain coronavirus transmission.
Covid-19 community spread has started, cases in rural areas a bad sign:IMA
While speaking to ANI, Dr V K Monga, the Chairman of IMA Hospital Board of India, said: “This is now an exponential growth. Every day the number of cases is increasing by more than around 30,000. This is really a bad situation for the country. There are so many factors connected with it but overall this is now spreading to rural areas. This is a bad sign. It now shows a community spread.”
Insurers favor warehouse investments over offices as pandemic hastens real estate shifts
Pandemic lockdowns have spurred companies to re-examine their need for office space if employees continue working at home in the post-pandemic world, a trend that could drive down office occupancy rates and rents.
India lifted 271 mn people out of poverty between FY06-16, says UN report
Covid-19 is the latest crisis to hit the globe, and climate change all but guarantees more will follow soon. Each will affect the poor in multiple ways. More than ever, we need to work on tackling poverty and vulnerability to poverty – in all its forms,” Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP Pedro Coneico said.
Consumer goods demand is back to near pre-covid level: Nielsen
According to Nielsen, both urban and rural sales are growing but the recovery/sales from the undeveloped semi-urban/rural quarters are much faster and traditional trade channels as neighbourhood and Kirana stores have scored over modern trade outlets as retail outlets and hypermarkets.
Compared with other global markets such as China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, the industry in India has witnessed a dela
How Covid is spreading in unexplained ways in some countries & dimming containment hope
You can hardly contain the outbreak because you have no idea where they will come out next,” said Yang Gonghuan, former deputy director general of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “When there’s more cases where the origins are unknown, it adds to the difficulty for containment.”
Record single day Covid-19 cases of 30k push tally near to one million,death toll climbs to 24,915
Covid-19 claims from govt authorised make-shift hospitals payble by insurers:IRDAI
In order to ensure that the costs of treatment of COVID – 19 are covered as per the terms and conditions of policy contract, a make-shift or temporary hospital permitted by Central / State government will be also regarded as a hospital or network provider and insurers have to settle the claims, said IRDAI on Thursday.