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India’s COVID-19 tally reaches 2,26,770 with record spike of 9,851 cases; death toll 6,348
Of the 273 deaths reported since Thursday morning, 123 were in Maharashtra, 44 in Delhi, 33 in Gujarat, 16 in Uttar Pradesh, 12 in Tamil Nadu, 10 in West Bengal, six each in Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, four each in Karnataka, Bihar and Rajasthan, three each in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, two in Uttarakhand and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Jharkhand
UK offers 10 billion pounds in guarantees for trade credit insurance
Several countries including France, Germany and the Netherlands have introduced similar schemes, and Britain has also expanded its export credit guarantee scheme, which typically supports trade in developing markets, to cover developed markets.
AXA faces 1,700 ambiguous restaurant contracts over pandemic payouts
Axa chief executive Thomas Buberl said his company had reached an agreement with 200 restaurants and that the payouts would allow them to cover a substantial part of their costs.
The court case set a potential precedent for coronavirus-related disputes across the world.
COVID-19 Pandemic: Emerging risks and trends
•Intergenerational tensions, supply chain disruptions and the fragility of public healthcare are among the risks and trends amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020,
•The coronavirus outbreak showed that societies weren’t sufficiently prepared, and that broad risk awareness is crucial for proper risk management;,
•The current crisis shouldn’t overshadow the need for the world to transition to a more sustainable economy and a low-carbon future, and the insurance industry can play a pivotal role in this
SC seeks finance ministry’s reply on waiver of interest on loans during moratorium period
The bench was hearing a plea, filed by Gajendra Sharma, in which he has sought a direction to declare the portion of RBI’s March 27 notification “as ultra vires to the extent it charges interest on the loan amount during the moratorium period, which create hardship to the petitioner being borrower and creates hindrance and obstruction in ‘right to life’ guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India”.
India’s COVID-19 tally reaches 2,16,919 with record spike of 9,304 cases; death toll 6,075
Of the 260 deaths reported since Wednesday morning, 122 were in Maharashtra, 50 in Delhi, 30 in Gujarat, 11 in Tamil Nadu, 10 in West Bengal, seven each in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, six in Rajasthan, four in Andhra Pradesh and one each in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Punjab and Uttarakhand.
Maruti introduces accessories to protect customers from coronavirus
The company’s ‘Health and Hygiene’ genuine accessories for car and personal care are priced from Rs 10 to Rs 650, MSI said in a statement.
India’s urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis
Dr. Naman Shah, an epidemiologist and physician advising a federal government coronavirus task force, said rural outbreaks could be “devastating” given the inadequate number of doctors and health facilities.
Self-driving cars could only prevent a third of U.S. crashes – study
Companies developing self-driving vehicles, including traditional automakers and technology companies, have repeatedly positioned fully automated driving as a tool to drastically reduce road deaths by taking the human driver out of the equation.But the IIHS study outlined a more nuanced picture of human driver error, showing that not all mistakes can be eliminated by camera, radar and other sensor-based driverless technology.
India pledges $15 million for global vaccine alliance
India is also the world’s foremost producer of vaccines and that it is fortunate to contribute to the immunization of about 60 per cent of the world’s children, he pointed out.