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UN health agency sees virus cases leveling off
The assessment released Tuesday says there were about 68,000 new deaths reported globally, with Europe and the Americas registering increases of about 10 per cent.
he countries with the highest numbers of new cases were the United States, Iran, India, Britain and Brazil.
WHO also noted several recent studies that show licensed vaccines still provide protection against severe coronavirus disease, but that there is some evidence to show the shots are less effective at preventing people from becoming infected with the more contagious delta variant.
India logs 44,658 new COVID-19 infections, Kerala reports 30,007 cases
As a part of the ongoing nationwide vaccination drive, the country has administered 61.22 crore vaccine doses till date. Yesterday, the health ministry informed that 50 per cent of the eligible population has been administered with the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine under the world’s largest vaccination drive. India’s COVID vaccination drive commenced on January 16 this year.
Munich Re unveils predictive technology for life insurers
ALLFINANZ Predictor allows clients to seamlessly deploy cutting edge predictive modelling technology into their underwriting process.
Tobias Frenz, Head of Digital Solutions Life & Health, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa for Munich Re said: “The co-creation of model development by Munich Re’s AI and Analytics team, and deployment with ALLFINANZ Predictor, has led to the successful launch of the first comprehensive predictive underwriting solutions for life and health insurance in Asia Pacific. This marks the beginning of a new era in underwriting using AI, rules and data to fundamentally transform the onboarding experience.”
Zurich Hong Kong launches domestic helper insurance plan
The cover can be bought by paying an annual premium of HKD946, equivalent to less than HKD2.6 a day.
The cover has multiple new protections, including replacement expenses caused by a domestic helper’s resignation within three months of the initial contract, or intentional/negligent injuries to the household children or elders, and service interruption cover if the domestic helper suffers from cancer or heart disease
Majority of Indians experience no or mild side effects post 2 doses of Covid vax: Survey
Community social media platform LocalCircles said that according to its nationwide survey, ”70 percent of Indians after taking the first dose of Covishield and 64 percent with Covaxin experienced no or mild side effects.”
Govt to launch incentive scheme to support 75 start-ups in areas of telemedicine, digital health
”The government will soon launch a special incentive scheme to support 75 start-ups in areas of telemedicine, digital health and artificial intelligence to coincide with the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ being celebrated from August 15 this year,” the minister said.
India working on developing Pan-Corona shot: Dr Renu Swarup
“We are already preparing for the future, for a new vaccine, which is Pan-Corona. So that if there is any other such virus that comes in or any other such variant that comes in, the vaccine would be able to respond to all of them. So that’s really our next preparedness which we’ve already started. We have a very strong team which is working on that.”
Ships resume berthing at halted port terminal in China
The partial closure of the world’s third-busiest container port worsened congestion at other major Chinese gateways such as Shanghai, Xiamen and Hong Hong, as ships diverted away amid uncertainty over how long virus control measures in the city would last.
84-day gap between two COVISHIELD doses based on vaccine availability or efficacy: Kerala HC asks Centre
The court said if availability was the reason for the gap, then those who can afford to buy it , they should be allowed to take the second dose without waiting for 84 days as per the prevailing protocol.
The court further said if efficacy was the reason then the scientific data in support of it be also provided.
Covid in India maybe entering some kind of stage of endemicity: WHO’s Soumya Swaminathan
“As far as India is concerned that seems to be what is happening and because of size of India and heterogeneity of population and immunity status in different parts of country in different pockets, it is very very feasible that the situation may continue like this with ups and downs in different parts of the country, particularly where there are more susceptible population, so those groups who were perhaps less affected by first and second waves or those areas with low levels of vaccine coverage we could see peaks and troughs for the next several months,” said Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation Dr Soumya Swaminathan.