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Saudi Arabia threatens 3-year travel ban for citizens who visit “red list” states
“Anyone who is proven to be involved will be subject to legal accountability and heavy penalties upon their return, and will be banned from travel for three years,” the official said. Saudi Arabia has banned travel to or transit at a number of countries including Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates.
Centre asks states for data on Covid deaths due to oxygen shortage: Report
The government’s reply comes in the aftermath of the devastating second COVID-19 wave that overwhelmed the country’s healthcare infrastructure and resulted in thousands of deaths daily. COVID-19 cases surged dangerously from April to June and peaked in May with over 4-lakh cases and 4,000 deaths.
Govt panel recommends nod to SII for phase 2/3 trials of Covovax on children aged 2-17
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday told BJP MPs that Covid vaccination for children is likely to start soon, sources said.
Young lured to tobacco addiction via e-cigarettes – WHO
Over eight million people die annually from tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke, making the habit a leading cause of preventable diseases, the WHO said in a report calling for greater regulation of smoke-free devices containing nicotine.
Some 16,000 flavours are on the market for e-cigarettes, including bubble gum, vanilla ice cream and chocolate cookies, Ruediger Krech, director of the WHO’s department of health promotion, said, adding e-cigarette users were “at least twice if not three times” more likely to become cigarette smokers. “That calls for exactly the same regulation as cigarettes,” he added.
When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that’s a hard question to answer
But it’s important to acknowledge it’s difficult to pin down a single magic number for herd immunity.
Indian aviation market’s recovery significantly impacted by cap on fares, capacity: IATA DG
So, the measures that were put in place during the initial phase of the pandemic really do have to be challenged and questioned as to whether they are still relevant in an environment where the risk that ”we face is very different now from the risk that we faced 15-17 months ago”, the director general of global airlines body IATA, Willie Walsh said.
Church in Kerala announces welfare scheme for large Christian families
“During the formation of Kerala, Christians were the second largest community in the state. But now, the community is only 18.38 per cent of the state’s total population. In recent years, the birth rate in the Christian community has decreased to 14 per cent,” read the letter, issued by the Archbishop Mar Joseph Perumthottam in 2019.
California expands state healthcare to undocumented residents 50 and up
But California is not the first state to provide comprehensive public medical benefits to its undocumented elderly population. Illinois last December became the first to extend state-funded healthcare coverage to all non-citizens age 65 and older whose immigration status had left them ineligible for Medicaid.
Newsom’s action builds on two earlier expansions of Medi-Cal – California’s version of the state-federal Medicaid system for the poor and disabled. They provided full-scale coverage to undocumented children, then to young adults until their 26th birthday regardless of immigration status beginning last year.
COVID-19: India adds 39,361 fresh cases,416 fatalities
The active cases have increased to 4,11,189 and comprise 1.31 percent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.35 percent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Pandemic Travel Rules
The best strategy isn’t yet clear, but one thing is common: Few are taking into consideration families as a unit.
Acknowledging the difficult balance between the realities of employment and family demands could become one of the most important steps to opening up economies. But until parents have more clarity about how to cross borders with their young children, or the hoops they have to jump through to be with them, there’s little hope of a full recovery.