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SC terms rising suicide cases as social issue, seeks Centre’s response on PIL
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB...
HDFC ERGO starts processing its health claims through National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX) platform
Developed by the National Health Authority (NHA), the NHCX platform...
Deadly Delta wave stole 2.4 lakh lives in India, ‘similar episodes’ could take place in near term: UN report
“In India, a deadly wave of infection with the Delta variant stole 240,000 lives between April and June and disrupted economic recovery. Similar episodes could take place in the near term,” said the report The report noted that South Asia faces major downside risks...
Scientists: Duck is 1st wild bird flu case in US in 5 years
The flu poses a low risk to people but can spread quickly through chicken houses and other poultry businesses The US Department of Agriculture alerted global health officials. Scattered Eurasian H5 infections have been detected in 2022 from Portugal to Bulgaria and in...
India reports over 2.68 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 402 fatalities in last 24 hours
Active cases account for 3.85 per cent of the total cases. Of the total infections reported till date, 6,041 cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 have been detected so far which is an increase of 5.01 per cent since yesterday. India recorded 2,68,833 fresh COVID-19...
CDC encourages more Americans to consider N95 masks
The latest CDC guidance notes that there is a special category of “surgical N95'' masks, that are specially designed for protection against blood splashes and other operating room hazards. Those are not generally available for sale to the public, and should continue...
After six-week surge, Africa’s Omicron-driven fourth pandemic wave flattens: WHO
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus voiced concern that even though more than 9.4 billion vaccine doses have now been administered globally, 90 countries did not reach the target of vaccinating 40 per cent of their populations by the end of last year, and...
WHO recommends two new drugs to treat patients with COVID-19
According to the WHO Guideline Development Group, it is “strongly recommended” for patients with severe or critical disease in combination with corticosteroids. The group of international experts based their recommendation on “moderate certainty evidence” that it...
FOCUS-Life insurers adapt pandemic risk models after claims jump
Claims rose most in the United States, India, and South Africa due to the more lethal variants and a rise in fatalities or illnesses among younger and unvaccinated groups The global life insurance industry was hit with reported claims due to COVID-19 of $5.5 billion...
U.S. business fears never ending liability from ‘take-home’ COVID-19 lawsuits
The Dec. 21 ruling allowed a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against See's Candies Inc, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, by the family of Arturo Ek of Los Angeles who died in April 2020 at 72 from COVID-19 As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, businesses say...
Emerging economies learn to manage Covid-19
In India, where the immunization rate is about 45%, antibody surveys suggest that most of the population has already had Covid in the past, which experts believe could lessen the impact of the coming wave Developing nations brought to their knees by earlier waves of...
ANALYSIS-India’s new COVID-19 rules aim to free up resources but carry risks
"This new strategy will affect data from rural India or certain states in a disproportionate way," said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiology professor at the University of Michigan. "It will be harder to predict upcoming hotspots and epicenters," she added, which would...