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About 52 per cent cases of cervical cancer diagnosed from 2012-15 survived Lancet Study
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What we know about the Indian variant as coronavirus sweeps South Asia
The WHO has said early studies suggest some loss of vaccines’ neutralisation capacity against the variant, but it is not clear if this translates into decreased vaccine efficacy. “We don’t have anything to suggest that our diagnostics, our therapeutics and our vaccines don’t work. This is important,” said Van Kerkhove at WHO.
WhatsApp case fuels fears over India’s new social media rules
“Requiring messaging apps to ‘trace’ chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message sent on WhatsApp, which would break end-to-end encryption and fundamentally undermines people’s right to privacy,” WhatsApp said in a statement cited by NDTV news.
New Zealand hospitals under prolonged IT outage from ransom hack
There’s been no official word on whether the attackers had demanded a ransom. Last week Snee told reporters that there would be no ransom payment and that the board had backups for all its files that it would use to rebuild its system.
US not fully safe with vaccinations unless coronavirus variants curbed: USAID
“We recognize that no matter how many people we vaccinated at home, the United States will not be fully safe as long as the virus rages on around the rest of the world and continues to replicate and generate new and potentially more dangerous,” Konyndyk, who is assisting the Biden administration’s global response to the coronavirus pandemic, said.
High Court asks Delhi government to publicise Covid-19 helplines in newspapers on daily basis
“In newspapers, one does not find these inserts on a daily basis. These things should be there in the papers every day. Fix a corner or column, may be on page 1 or page 3. Some column on a page should be dedicated to it daily so that people know where to go when they need it. People would be habituated. This is where you are lagging behind,” the bench said.
‘Cascade of Calamities’ Plagues Tokyo’s Olympics Ambitions
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and top executive of SoftBank Group Corp., criticized the push to hold the Olympics while Hiroshi Mikitani, billionaire founder and CEO of online retailer Rakuten Group Inc., compared them to a “suicide mission.”
The Asahi newspaper, a sponsor of the games, called in an editorial Wednesday for Suga to make the decision to cancel the games.
IMA slaps Rs 1000 crore defamation notice on Yoga guru Ramdev
The six-page notice served on behalf of IMA (Uttarakhand) secretary Ajay Khanna by his lawyer Neeraj Pandey describes the remarks by Ramdev as damaging to the reputation and the image of allopathy and around 2,000 practitioners of it who are part of the association.
Terming the remarks of the yoga guru a “criminal act” under section of 499 of the Indian Penal Code, the notice demanded a written apology from him within 15 days of its receipt, saying a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore will be demanded from him at the rate of Rs 50 lakh per member of the IMA if he failed to do so.
Countries eager to reopen to travel as pandemic recedes
The World Travel & Tourism Council estimates that the sector lost nearly USD 4.5 trillion and 62 million jobs last year. Airlines alone lost USD 126 billion last year and are on track to lose another USD 48 billion this year, according to their largest trade group.
Lack of clean water far deadlier than violence in war-torn countries, says UNICEF report
“When the flow of water stops, diseases like cholera and diarrhoea can spread like wildfire, often with fatal consequences”, added Mr Fontaine. “Hospitals cannot function, and rates of malnutrition and wasting increase. Children and families are often forced out in search of water, exposing them, particularly girls, to an increased risk of harm and violence.”
Facebook reverses policy, allows posts claiming that COVID-19 was made in a lab
In December, Facebook announced it would be nixing posts that contained false information about the coronavirus vaccines, it reported further. Posts containing false claims about “safety, efficacy, ingredients or side effects” were added to the list of already banned content, which included more general coronavirus misinformation.