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Insurer Centene to buy Magellan in $2.2 billion mental health push
The move by Centene to expand mental health support comes as more than two out of five Americans are struggling with mental or behavioral health issues associated with the pandemic, the company said.
“I was thinking about it long before the pandemic, the pandemic just emphasized it,” said Centene Chairman, President and Chief Executive Michael Neidorff.
Centene’s patients, after being diagnosed with a serious illness, such as cancer, would benefit from having increased access to mental health care, Neidorff added.
Power ministry proposes pushing back new emission norms deadline
“The target should be to maintain uniform ambient air quality across the country and not uniform emission norms for thermal power plants,” Nishat Kumar, an official at the Ministry of Power said in a January 2 note to the environment ministry, seen by Reuters.
World risks ‘moral catastrophe’ if COVID shots delayed in Africa, its CDC chief says
Cases of the new coronavirus increased by nearly 19% since last week and deaths increased by 26%, according to Africa CDC data. Africa has recorded 2.7 million coronavirus infections and 64,000 deaths as of Thursday, it says.
South Africa, where a new variant of the virus has been detected, recorded 82,000 cases in the past week, he said.
COVID-19: India records lowest daily cases in over six months
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 99,75,958 pushing the national recovery rate to 96.32 per cent,while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45 per cent.
There are 2,31,036active coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 2.23per cent of the total caseload,the data stated.
India gets its first women’s team in disaster combat
“The first women rescuers’ team is already on ground. Recently, the UP government requisitioned an NDRF team and they (women) went there (Garh Mukteshwar). The team handled the rescue boats and related equipments,” NDRF director general S N Pradhan told PTI in an interview.
“These personnel have all the skills to be called complete rescuers,” he said.
Consumers feel higher importance of sanitisation; cloth wash frequency rises amid pandemic: Survey
Commenting on the findings, Whirlpool of India Vice-President (Marketing) K G Singh said, ”People today are more vigilant of their health and hygiene than ever before.” An official spokesperson from Kantar said the survey clearly indicates the stress and worry around sanitisation of clothes.
Approval of COVID vaccine lends strength to optimism on health, eco fronts: FinMin report
India, the report said, ”has been successful in bending the COVID-curve till now, with reducing weekly/daily infections, rising recovery rate (now at around 95 per cent) and one of the world’s lowest case fatality rates”. The downside risk, however, remains due to the spread of the UK variant and fatigue from social distancing guidelines, it said, adding the emphasis on continued observation of ‘COVID appropriate’ behaviour with the due exercise of caution and surveillance needs to be sustained.
China doubles down on COVID narrative as WHO investigation looms
Raina MacIntyre, head of the Kirby Institute’s Biosecurity Research Program in Australia, said the investigation needed to draw “a comprehensive global picture of the epidemiological clues”, including any evidence COVID-19 was present outside of China before December 2019.
A COVID-19 shot for $150? Online scams surge as slow vaccine rollout frustrates
Scams include emails promising entry to supposedly secret lists for early vaccine access and robocallers impersonating government agencies. Message boards on the so-called dark web have added COVID-19 vaccines to more traditional illicit goods for sale.
Indian vaccine makers end spat, pledge ‘smooth rollout’ of COVID-19 shots
The approval for Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN, developed with a government research body, faced criticism from industry experts and others as the company has yet to release efficacy and safety data, and it still has a Phase III trial underway.