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IOA planning medical insurance and pension for former Olympians
"The IOA is committed to taking athlete-centric steps, and one of...
Group Mediclaim Policies: No claim can be denied for non- availability of details of members, says IRDAI
A policyholder can access information on unclaimed amounts with any...
Global community steps up with $93 billion support package to boost resilient recovery in World’s poorest countries
The funds will be delivered to the world’s 74 poorest countries under the 20th replenishment (IDA20) program, which focuses on helping countries recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. In these countries, the ongoing pandemic is worsening poverty, undermining...
US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID
The $4.1 trillion tab for 2020 represents an increase of about $365 billion from national health spending in 2019. It works out to $12,530 per person Washington:U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal...
Cabinet clears proposal to increase legal age of women to 21: Report
After the Union cabinet's approval, the government will amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act, and the Hindu Marriage Act to implement the new decision to increase the legal age of marriage of women," sources said. New Delhi:The Union...
San Francisco to require sick leave for nannies, gardeners
An employer would pay one hour of wages into the sick leave fund for every 30 hours of service from a domestic worker The measure would affect 10,000 people in the city who work in private homes cleaning, cooking, tending children, garden or providing non-medical care...
Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs; new data on asymptomatic cases
"By infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic. Therefore, taken together with our recent studies showing that the Omicron variant can partially escape immunity from...
Health facility registry & health account will together create interoperable system: NHA CEO
R S Sharma,CEO ,National Health Authority 'Similarly, we are going to have the health professionals registry, which means the registry of the doctors and all the health workers of various categories. So that will help people in locating the nearest doctor. Similarly,...
Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eventually be fired – CNBC
Employees who have not complied with the vaccination rules by Jan. 18 will be placed on "paid administrative leave" for 30 days, CNBC reported, followed by "unpaid personal leave" for up to six months and termination. Alphabet Inc's Google told its employees they...
Pfizer Covid pill nearly 90% effective, works on Omicron, shows lab data
77 countries have now reported cases of Omicron & the reality is that Omicron is probably in most countries, even if it hasn’t been detected yet. Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant, said Tedros Ghebreyesus,...
Lok Sabha members ask govt to prepare to deal with challenges posed by Omicron
Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said India has already reported 41 cases of Omicron variant and the government should begin preparations of every kind to deal with the challenge New Delhi: Lok Sabha members on Tuesday...
Serum Institute to launch COVID vaccine for children in six months: Poonawalla
''We haven't seen a lot of severe disease in children. Fortunately, the panic is not there for children. However, we will be launching a vaccine in six months for children, hopefully down to the age of three.Covovax is under trial and has shown excellent data all the...