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Digitalisation needed for smooth international air travel restart: IATA
“Without an automated solution for COVID-19 checks, we can see the potential for significant airport disruptions on the horizon. Already, average passenger processing and waiting times have doubled from what they were pre-crisis during peak time — reaching an unacceptable three hours,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General. “And that is with many airports deploying pre-crisis level staffing for a small fraction of pre-crisis volumes. Nobody will tolerate waiting hours at check-in or for border formalities,” he said.
COVID second wave triggers raft of growth forecast revisions: RBI annual report
The pandemic, it added, ”is the biggest risk to this outlook. Yet, upsides also stem from the capex push by the government, rising capacity utilisation and the turnaround in capital goods imports.” RBI further said that a collective global effort to fight the pandemic will surely bring better results than individual countries fighting on their own.
India scraps local trials for COVID shots to fast-track imports as it battles second wave
Just about 3% of the country’s 1.3 billion people have been fully vaccinated, the lowest rate among the 10 countries with the most COVID-19 cases. Officials have said that 98% of the population remains susceptible to infection.
HC seeks to know steps BMC is taking to tackle rising COVID-19 cases among kids
The bench, which was hearing a bunch of public interest litigations seeking proper management of issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, asked if the BMC had also made arrangements for the safety of the caregivers or parents accompanying such children.
”Yes, we make safety arrangements for the parents or caregivers to stay in the hospital with the children whenever required. They (parents/caregivers) will also need to be vaccinated,” Sakhre said.
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.