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COVID-fuelled child labour crisis spurs call for global social protection fund
The pandemic has pushed many countries – from the United States to Rwanda – to spend trillions of dollars on short-term measures, including payments to businesses and poor families, to cushion their populations from economic shocks. A fraction of this cash could be used to start a fund offering basic income like cash transfers to the poor, pensions for the elderly and disability, unemployment and child benefits, campaigners said at an online event.”Social protection is absolutely fundamental,” said Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederation. “If we have a fund to build those social protection systems for the 55% of the world’s people who have no social protection, and for the 72% who have little or no social protection, then it returns money and jobs to the economy,” she said.
Vaccine certification for travel must meet ‘minimum criteria’, says UK
Travelers who are not fully vaccinated, or vaccinated in a country such as India currently not on the UK government’s recognized list, must take a pre-departure test, pay for day two and day eight PCR tests after arrival in England, and self-isolate for 10 days, with an option to “test to release” after five days following a negative PCR test.
Indian homebuyers rank green spaces as key feature: Knight Frank
Asia Pacific homebuyers now rank good air quality (70 per cent), proximity to green spaces (69 per cent) and access to good healthcare (64 per cent) as top three location features.
‘We can end the pandemic’, UN chief says in new call for global vaccine plan
Although more than 5.7 million doses have been administered globally, 73 per cent have been in just 10 countries, and just three per cent of people in Africa have had innoculations.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s plan calls for at least doubling vaccine production to ensure 2.3 billion doses are equitably distributed through the vaccine solidarity initiative, COVAX.
The goal is to reach 40 per cent of people worldwide by the end of this year, and 70 per cent in the first half of 2022, per targets set by WHO.
Moderna chief executive sees pandemic over in a year
“If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated. Boosters should also be possible to the extent required,” he told the newspaper in an interview.
Vaccinations would soon be available even for infants, he said.
Children not getting enough nutrients leading to developmental harm: UNICEF
Children carry the scars of poor diets and feeding practices for life. An insufficient intake of nutrients found in vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish and meat needed to support growth at an early age puts children at risk of poor brain development, weak learning, low immunity, increased infections and, potentially, death.
Kharif foodgrain output estimated at record 150.50 mn tonne this year: Govt
Releasing the first advance foodgrain production estimate for the ongoing kharif season, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said: “A record foodgrain production is estimated at 150.50 million tonne in kharif season.”
Bumper crop is being achieved on account of tireless hard work of farmers and scientists besides farmer-friendly government policies, he said.
Britain launches 220 mln pound support scheme for industry to go green
“With innovation and investment across the economy, we can power the UK’s green industrial revolution. But we know for the most polluting and energy-intensive businesses, this will mean a big shift in the way they operate,” Prime minister Boris Johnson said in a statement.
German auto giants place their bets on hydrogen cars
Stephan Herbst, general manager of Toyota in Europe, speaking in his role as a member of the Hydrogen Council business group, which forecasts that hydrogen will power more than 400 million cars by 2050, said he was confident that now governments had set ambitious carbon-reduction targets, they would push hydrogen alongside battery electric cars.
“We strongly believe this is not a question of either or,” he added. “We need both technologies.”
Ex-gratia of Rs 50k to kin of those who died due to Covid: Centre tells SC
The ex-gratia assistance will be given subject to the cause of death being certified as COVID-19 as per the guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and ICMR, the government said.
It added that the ex-gratia assistance will be provided by states from State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).