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Need more doctors, hospital beds to achieve healthcare vision 2047: Report
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April Heatwave: Calls for comprehensive heat action plans
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Pandemic pushes Chinese tech giants to roll out more courier robots
Researchers at the University of Michigan said fully and partially automated vehicles could cut delivery costs by 10−40% in cities. Alibaba’s last-mile logistics vehicle has delivered over a million orders as of September to more than 200,000 consumers, the company said. It operates over 200 robots and plans to have 1,000 by March and 10,000 over the next three years.
World Bank says Delta variant slowing economic growth in East Asia and Pacific
Economic activity began to slow in the second quarter of 2021, and growth forecasts have been downgraded for most countries in the region, according to the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Fall 2021 Economic Update.
While China’s economy is projected to expand by 8.5%, the rest of the region is forecast to grow at 2.5%, nearly 2 percentage points less than forecast in April 2021, the World Bank said.
DCGI allows Serum to enrol 7-11 year olds in Covid vaccine trial
“After detailed deliberation, the committee recommended for allowing enrolment of subjects of 7 to 11 years of age group as per the protocol,” a subject expert panel of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization said.
WHO’s emergency use authorisation for Covaxin further delayed: Report
The sources further said that the UN public health agency has asked for more data from Bharat Biotech for Covaxin.
This delay will affect Indians especially students and who have international travel plans. The EUA is important because without it Covaxin will not be accepted by most countries.
AIIMS-Bhubaneswar receives funding for ‘first’ brain bank of Eastern India
A brain bank is a repository of brain samples of deceased persons, which finds use in research work.
National Consumer Court asks NIA to pay Rs 1 lakh health claim linked to alcohol consumption
Clearly, nothing is mentioned in the policy relating to exclusion that treatment expenditure of any disease caused by use of alcohol or arising out of the use of alcohol will not be admissible, said the National Consumer Court..
New India Assurance had rejected the claims saying that disease of of the patient (claimant) was due to the alcohol consumption that IS not covered in the company’s policy.
Centre extends nationwide COVID-19 containment measures till Oct 31
The home secretary said there should be a continued focus on the five-fold strategy i.e. Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and adherence to COVID-appropriate behaviour, to safely navigate through the festive season and avoid the possibility of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Active COVID-19 cases in country lowest in 194 days
The death toll climbed to 4,47,751 with 378 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
Govt to support 75 startup innovations for healthcare challenges
Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said India’s bio-economy is on its way to achieving the USD 150 billion target to contribute effectively to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2024-25.
India reports 26,041 new COVID-19 cases
At least 73 percent of Odisha’s population and over 93 percent of health workers have developed antibodies against SARS-CoV2, according to a recent serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The survey was conducted in 12 of the state’s 30 districts between August 29 and September 15 by experts of ICMR’s Regional Medical Research (ICMR), Bhubaneswar with help of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Odisha government.