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“Developing, upgrading primary&family health centres priority of Left govt”
Health Minister Veena George her department was working on various initiatives, like preparing for a COVID third wave, reducing lifestyle diseases within five years and improving medical institutions, to strengthen the health infrastructure in the state.
Many now have immunity against COVID-19 but don’t lower guard: Experts
Dr Pooja Khosla, senior consultant (Department of Medicine), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, said the second wave of the coronavirus has taught us that cases can increase suddenly.
“There are warning signs from different parts of the world. In India too, a small increase in cases has been recorded. Infections can increase exponentially anytime. I think one should not assume anything and make all efforts to prevent a second wave-like crisis, which was a nightmare,” she said.
“Opening everything is not appropriate everyone has been saying the third wave is a couple of days away,” Dr Khosla added.
Companies struggling to manage reporting on climate risks, says report
”Companies based in India presented 28 per cent on quality disclosure and 49 per cent coverage. Only 3 per cent of global companies reviewed meet the highest levels of quality and the average quality score is 42 per cent,” EY said in a release on Sunday.
Among others, the number of Indian companies responding to disclosure platforms such as carbon disclosure project is on the rise. In the coming year, greater Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures reporting is expected, driven by pressure from financiers, investors and customers, it added.
73 pc rise in healthcare facilities in tribal areas between 2005 and 2020: Govt data
The number of sub health centres (SHC) in tribal areas increased by 78 per cent, from 16,748 in 2005 to 29,745 in 2020.
Increasing incidence of hypertension can add to burden of disease ravaged by Covid pandemic: Experts
Vandana Shah, regional director at Global Health Advocacy Incubator, said, ”A high prevalence of hypertension exacts a tremendous price on public health. The pandemic has shown us how people living with chronic conditions like hypertension can become sicker and be more at risk of dying.”
Surviving in the post-Covid office: Making a case for scheduling everything
Ashley Whillans, a Harvard Business School professor thinks we could be at a turning point. “Now is the perfect time to set new rules, new routines, and new ways of working because we’re in this phase of habit disruption,” Whillans said.
Larger population surveys required for deeper understanding of COVID-19, its antibody response: Experts
“Residents should continue to remain cautious about disease spread because we are still unaware about the incidence rate of different variants and its co-relation with antibody response. Most importantly, the presence of antibodies does not guarantee 100 per cent protection against COVID infection. So as aptly communicated by ICMR, though the results are a ray of hope, there is no room for complacency,” emphasisedDr Rahul Tambe, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, Nanavati Max Super Speciality, .
Cases of `Kappa’ variant of coronavirus found in Gujarat
Kappa is a ”variant of interest” but not a ”variant of concern” as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the release said.
HDFC Bank’s Puri top earner among bankers in FY21; ICICI Bank’s Bakhshi forgoes salary in COVID year
Puri’s overall payments included Rs 3.5 crore as post-retirement benefits. Its immediate rival ICICI Bank’s MD and CEO Sandeep Bakhshi ”voluntarily relinquished” his fixed compensation of basic and supplementary allowances for FY21, which had seen the wide-scale impact of the COVID pandemic, as per the second-largest lender’s annual report.
37.8% 10-year-olds have FB accounts, 24.3% Instagram accounts in contravention of rules: NCPCR study
”Social media platforms contain and disperse such a variety of content, a lot of which is neither appropriate nor conducive for children. They can be anything from violent or vulgar content to instances of online abuse and bullying of children. Hence, in this regard, proper oversight and stricter enforcement is required,” it said.