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Airlines ask WHO to back quarantine-free travel after vaccines
“We can say whatever we want, what we do need is for the WHO to come out and say the same thing, so that it becomes a universal acceptance that once you’re vaccinated you should not have to go through any of these hoops,” Nick Careen, IATA’s senior vice president for passenger matters, said in a briefing.
Investors sue AstraZeneca over share price drop on covid-19 vaccine testingprice drop on covid-19 vaccine testing
In the three days after the release of the test results in late November, AstraZeneca’s stock price dropped 5%, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday by the public employees’ retirement system in Monroe County, Michigan.
Alleging “wrongful acts and omissions” by the company and its chief officers, the pension fund is asking to be allowed to sue on behalf of a class of all investors injured by the share price decline.
Global insurance industry cross border deals total $5.27bn in Q4 2020
The value marked a decrease of 42.2% over the previous quarter and a rise of 47.2% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $3.58bn.
In terms of number of cross border deals, the sector saw a rise of 47.06% over the last four-quarter average with 25 deals against the average of 17 deals.
In value terms, North America led the activity with cross border deals worth $2bn.
Pfizer-BioNTech Say Their Covid Vaccine Works Against UK, South Africa Variants
One mutation in particular — known as E484K and found in the South Africa and Brazil strains but not the one in Britain — has experts particularly worried about immunity “escape”.
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Data so far suggests current vaccines should still protect against these variants, though there’s some concern their effectiveness may be slightly diminished. There is some evidence that some antibody treatments may be less effective against certain variants.
German draft doesn’t recommend AstraZeneca jab for over-65s
Questions remain about how well the vaccine protects older people. Only 12% of participants in the AstraZeneca research were over 55 and they were enrolled later, so there hasn’t been enough time to see whether they get sick at a lower rate than those who didn’t get the vaccine.
Governments, insurers should work together on global risks-executives
“Public-private partnerships are the only way to tackle climate risk,” insurance broker Willis Towers Watson CEO John Haley said at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Zurich Insurance CEO Mario Greco said insurers did not have the capacity to tackle climate and cyber risks alone, but neither should such problems be outsourced wholly to governments.Governments and insurers in Europe and the United States are considering state-backed reinsurance programmes for future pandemics, though some insurance sources have said progress has been slow, as governments focus their attention on dealing with the current crisis.
Fresh Covid-19 rules: Swimming pools for all, more can watch films in halls
According to these new guidelines, to be effective for February 1, there shall be no restriction on inter-state and intra-state movement of people and goods including those for cross land-border trade under treaties with neighbouring countries.
Social, religious, sports, entertainment, educational, cultural, religious gatherings have already been permitted up to a maximum of 50 per cent of the hall capacity, with a ceiling of 200 people in closed spaces; and keeping of the size of the ground or space in view, in open spaces.
India’s unusual Covid vaccine problem: Plenty of shots, but few takers
“Vaccine hesitancy among health workers should end — I am pleading on behalf of the government, that please adopt it, because no one knows how this pandemic will take shape in the future,” said V. K. Paul, a member of the planning body Niti Aayog, noting that he’s taken the Covaxin shot without any adverse effects.
China, India’s COVID-19 vaccinations to stretch to late 2022: study
While rapid development of vaccines has raised hopes for an end to the year-long pandemic, concerns over unequal distribution have also mounted due to production problems and large bilateral deals between wealthy countries and drug makers.