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Monkeypox in Africa: Exporters keep fingers crossed
"As of now, the spread is not rampant, but looking into the...
National Insurance aims for Rs 100-200 cr profit in FY25
T Babu Paul, executive director,National Insurance Company...
70 pc of senior citizens didn’t have access to proper healthcare during Covid: Survey
An ageing population in India, along with a growing middle class and enhanced life expectancy, is expected to boost the demand for allied health care services in India, Antara said. New Delhi: Around 70 per cent of senior citizens did not have access to proper...
New Covid Omicron sub-variant found in India: WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Ghebreyesus,World Health Organisation Director-General WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said that there has been an emergence of a sub-variant that is being called the BA.2.75 "First reported from India and then from about 10...
General insurance industry’s premium rise by 23% to Rs 54,492 crore in Q1Fy 20222-23
The four PSU multiline general insurers -New India Assurance, Oriental Insurance Company, United India Insurance, National Insurance Company- have further lost around four per cent of their market share to private sector competitors in Apr-June period. Mumbai:...
Universal Sompo General Insurance launches retail health plan
As part of its efforts to focus on retail health products, Universal Sompo General Insurance has launched Complete Health Insurance plan with added features for retail consumers. The product is a comprehensive health insurance cover that includes a slew of new...
CoWin to be repurposed into platform for universal immunisation, blood donation: R S Sharma
RS Sharma,CoWIN chief and CEO of the National Health Authority “CoWin is now repurposed to become a platform for universal immunization, for blood donation and probably a little later for organ donation platform also. So I think we will slowly work towards ensuring...
Govt rejects demands by industry bodies seeking zero-rating GST on healthcare services
Tarun Bajaj,Revenue secretary Responding to the representations of the industry, revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj also rejected the demand for zero-rating for healthcare industry saying such ''carve-outs'' may generate similar demands from other sectors, like education,...
Karnataka govt approves setting up of 438 ‘Namma Clinics’
''We have permitted the start of 438 U-HWCs called Namma Clinic in Karnataka that we had announced in the budget under the 15th Finance Commission grants. Accordingly, we have given sanction for appointment of 438 doctors, equal number of nurses and second division...
New ‘alarming’ sub-variant of Omicron in 10 Indian states: Israeli expert
In a series of Tweets, Dr. Shay Fleishon, with the Central Virology Laboratory at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, said that 85 sequences from eight countries have been uploaded so far on Nextstrain, an open-source platform of genomic data. This included 69 from...
WHO says Monkeypox cases in Europe tripled in last two weeks
To date, more than 5,000 monkeypox cases have been reported from 51 countries worldwide that don't normally report the disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kluge said the number of infections in Europe represents about 90% of the...
COVID-19: BA.4 and BA.5 variants spur 20 per cent rise in cases
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ``Our ability to track the virus is under threat as reporting and genomic sequences are declining. The optimistic mid-year deadline for all countries to vaccinate at least 70 per cent of their populations is looking...