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“Shall take up with the GST Council,’ says FM Sitharaman on reduction of GST on Life and Health Insurance
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Around Rs 24,529 crore was...
Niti Aayog member Vinod Paul wants insurance companies to cover organ transplantation
Vinod Kumar Paul, member, Health, Niti Aayog A person after his...
Beazley expands miscellaneous medical liability offering to Asia Pacific
The product includes cover for medical malpractice (claims made), professional indemnity (claims made), public liability (claims made and occurrence) and product liability (claims made) Simgapore: Specialist insurer Beazley has enhanced its healthcare offering in Asia...
Regular international flights likely to resume from March 15
"Regular International flights is likely to resume from March 15. The Guidelines for International Arrivals, which came into effect from February 14, will be followed at airports for the passengers of these flights," an official source said New Delhi: Regular...
Low Budget allocation to healthcare: Fin secy says it is primarily states’ responsibility
Finance Secretary T V Somanathan Finance Secretary T V Somanathan said the Centre provides for some ''cross-cutting health infrastructure'' and also spends on the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, which helps people from lower strata of the society to access...
Global Covid-19 caseload rises to 422.8 mn, fatalities at 5.88 million
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 78,457,081 and 934,951, according to the CSSE The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (42,780,235 infections and 510,905 deaths), followed by Brazil...
WHO calls for cooperation to face of common threats from Covid-19 pandemic
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,Director-General,World Health Organization Tedros recalled that 70,000 people were dying each week from a preventable and treatable disease; that 83 per cent of the population in Africa was yet to receive a single Covid-19 vaccine dose; and...
Omicron subvariant BA.2 may cause severe disease, lab study suggests
"Neutralisation experiments show that the vaccine-induced humoral immunity fails to function against BA.2 like BA.1," the authors of the study said The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant is not only faster at spreading, but may also cause more severe...
‘Deltacron’ is real, more cases pop up in the UK
Several "recombinant" variants have been detected in the pandemic, but they have not led to any serious outbreaks. Scientists say it is "rare" for these to occur, but when they do the variant is normally "less fit" than its rivals and easily outcompete London:...
Fauci says time to start ‘inching’ back toward normality
Dr. Anthony Fauci Even with the positive trends, COVID numbers remain high with some 2,200 Americans dying each day, most of them unvaccinated Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that it is time for the United States to start inching...
Centre asks states, UTs to end additional COVID-19 restrictions amid decline in cases
"Presently, as the case trajectory across the nation is showing a sustained downward trend, it will be useful if states/UTs review and amend/do away with the additional restrictions so imposed after considering the trend of new cases, active cases and positivity...
First woman reported cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
The case of a middle-aged woman of mixed race, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunisitic Infections in Denver, is also the first involving umbilical cord blood, a newer approach that may make the treatment available to more people CHICAGO: A U.S....