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Rajasthan to digitalize healthcare with new online health management system
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Vaccine certification for travel must meet ‘minimum criteria’, says UK
Travelers who are not fully vaccinated, or vaccinated in a country such as India currently not on the UK government’s recognized list, must take a pre-departure test, pay for day two and day eight PCR tests after arrival in England, and self-isolate for 10 days, with an option to “test to release” after five days following a negative PCR test.
Indian homebuyers rank green spaces as key feature: Knight Frank
Asia Pacific homebuyers now rank good air quality (70 per cent), proximity to green spaces (69 per cent) and access to good healthcare (64 per cent) as top three location features.
‘We can end the pandemic’, UN chief says in new call for global vaccine plan
Although more than 5.7 million doses have been administered globally, 73 per cent have been in just 10 countries, and just three per cent of people in Africa have had innoculations.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s plan calls for at least doubling vaccine production to ensure 2.3 billion doses are equitably distributed through the vaccine solidarity initiative, COVAX.
The goal is to reach 40 per cent of people worldwide by the end of this year, and 70 per cent in the first half of 2022, per targets set by WHO.
Moderna chief executive sees pandemic over in a year
“If you look at the industry-wide expansion of production capacities over the past six months, enough doses should be available by the middle of next year so that everyone on this earth can be vaccinated. Boosters should also be possible to the extent required,” he told the newspaper in an interview.
Vaccinations would soon be available even for infants, he said.
Rs 26,400 crores spent on treating over 2.2 crore people through 24,000 hospitals in 3 yrs of Ayushman Bharat: Mandaviya
VK Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog suggested that the remaining 50-60 Cr people should also be included in this Universal HealthCare System to reach the unmet people. He also emphasized the need to add more hospitals under this scheme as 24,000 Hospitals are not enough.
QubeHealth & Nova Benefits to provide full-stack health and wellness benefits to Indian companies
Collectively serving over 500 companies in India, both companies are on a mission to help HR Teams make better healthcare decisions for their employees and for the employees to access and easily pay for the healthcare they need.
Children not getting enough nutrients leading to developmental harm: UNICEF
Children carry the scars of poor diets and feeding practices for life. An insufficient intake of nutrients found in vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish and meat needed to support growth at an early age puts children at risk of poor brain development, weak learning, low immunity, increased infections and, potentially, death.
UK adds Covishield to approved vaccines list, but no quarantine relief for Indians in updated travel advisory
The move will also mean that a pre-departure PCR test is no longer required as long as vaccinated travellers pre-book a day two test post-arrival in England and complete the compulsory passenger locator form in advanc
Estimated 57K premature deaths in Delhi last year can be attributed to air pollution: Greenpeace
According to Greenpeace India, among 100 global cities, Mumbai’s annual PM2.5 trends in 2020 exceeded 8 times more than WHO’s revised air quality guidelines of 5 ug/m3, Kolkata 9.4, Chennai 5.4, Hyderabad 7 fold and Ahmedabad exceeded 9.8 fold.
India needs to make its air quality norms more stringent, say experts after new WHO guidelines
WHO’s new guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect the health of populations by reducing levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change.”There is a body of scientific evidence to prove that air pollution is leading to severe health impacts and 90 per cent of the entire global population is breathing polluted air,” IIT-Kanpur professor S N Tripathi, said.