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COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1: India logs 1,226 cases, highest from K’taka, Andhra Pradesh
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Majority of urban unemployed Indians want Job, not cash handout:LSE study says
“Younger individuals, in the bottom half of pre-Covid earnings, experienced higher levels of worklessness,” the authors wrote, based on responses from 4,763 individuals between January and March this year in three lower-income states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Office supply jumps 75 pc annually during Jan-Jun across 7 cities despite COVID-19
New office space supply stood at 14.38 million sq ft during January-June 2020 across seven cities — Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai.
JLL India Head (Office Leasing Advisory) Rahul Arora.said,He added that in the second half of the year, if the country can ensure that most of the active workforce gets fully vaccinated, the shift back to office premises will be more feasible and sustainable.
AI pilots body seeks compensation to family of pilot succumbing to Covid infection
Stating that in the current pandemic situation, the government has announced an ex-gratia cover of Rs 50 lakh for any frontline worker who contracted Covid 19 and succumbed to it under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, the Guild said, “however, none of the pilots’ families who have succumbed to Covid having contracted the same while operating the Vande Bharat or Air Bubble flights have been so compensated.”
According to the Guild, major airlines in India are providing compensation to their pilots up to Rs 5 crore while some companies have fixed the insurance cover equivalent to the wages of what the employee would have earned till the date of his superannuation.
Flexible, agile vaccination strategy vital in saving lives in India, says Lancet report
The report noted that innovative measures currently being tried in India like establishing satellite vaccination centres closer to hamlets in rural settings and resident welfare associations in urban areas; converting community halls and using large parking spaces for drive-in vaccination; and using mobile vaccination facilities to cover populations that do not live within easy access of vaccination centres.
NPPA approves price rise of 50 per cent for carbamazepine, ranitidine, ibuprofen
To address the situation arising due to repeated price control, a one-time price increase of 50 per cent from the current ceiling price is being considered in public interest as an exceptional measure as advised by the Standing Committee on Affordable Medicines and Health Products (SCAMHP), NPPA said
Final analysis of Covaxin efficacy out; vaccine 65.2 percent effective against Delta variant
Director-General of ICMR, Balram Bhargava said, ”I am delighted to note that Covaxin developed by ICMR and BBIL under an effective public private partnership, has demonstrated an overall efficacy of 77.8 percent in Indias largest COVID phase 3 clinical trial thus far.
He further said Covaxin will not only benefit the Indian citizens but would also immensely contribute to protecting the global community against the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Delta variant spread in US prompts reconsideration of precautions: Dr Fauci
“The Delta variant has the capability of spreading much more efficiently from person to person. It also can cause more severe disease. So there are two things about it that are troublesome,” said the top US COVID-19 expert.
Fauci further said that the good news is that COVID-19 vaccines have shown to be very effective against the strain and urged those who have yet to be vaccinated to do so.
J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine shows promise against Delta variant
“Current data for the eight months studied so far shows that the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine generates a strong neutralizing antibody response that does not wane; rather, we observe an improvement over time,” Mathai Mammen, head of research & development at J&J’s drugs business, said in the statement.
Some European countries to allow travellers from India inoculated with Covishield – Indian govt sources
An Indian foreign ministry source said on Thursday that Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland had informed the Indian government that Covishield would be accepted for the purposes of travel.
WHO chief calls for vaccinating at least 10 per cent of population of every country by September
”Vast inequities in the access to vaccines are fuelling a two-track pandemic. While some countries have reached a high level of coverage, many others don’t have enough to vaccinate health workers, older people & other at-risk groups,” the World Health Organisation Director General said in a virtual address to India Global Forum.