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Preventive healthcare in India gets shot in arm with ‘Health ATMs’
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Insurance ‘scam’ case: CBI searches at nine locations in J-K, Delhi
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Brazil’s supreme court rules Covid-19 vaccination can be made mandatory
Bolsonaro has launched an attack on coronavirus vaccines, even suggesting that the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into crocodiles or bearded ladies.
“In the Pfizer contract it’s very clear: ‘we’re not responsible for any side effects.’ If you turn into a crocodile, it’s your problem,” Bolsonaro said on Thursday.That vaccine has been undergoing tests in Brazil for weeks and is already being used in the United States and Britain.
India surpasses somber milestone of 1 cr COVID-19 cases as 25152 infections added; 347 more die
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.45 per cent.
There are 3,08,751 active cases in the country which constitute 3.08 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
Seems third wave of Covid-19 in Delhi brought under control: Kejriwal
The highest single-day spike till date — 8,593 cases — was reported on November 11.
The chief minister said the situation in Delhi has improved significantly as the positivity rate had gone up to 15.26 per cent as in early November.
It is now down to 1.3 per cent, one of the lowest so far in Delhi, and nationally too, he said.
New COVID-19 strain spreads more quickly, UK medical chief says
“As a result of the rapid spread of the new variant, preliminary modelling data and rapidly rising incidence rates in the South East, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) now consider that the new strain can spread more quickly.
Vaccination for COVID-19 will be voluntary: Health ministry
“Vaccination for COVID-19 is voluntary. However, it is advisable to receive the complete schedule of the vaccine for protecting one-self against this disease and also to limit the spread of this disease to the close contacts including family members, friends, relatives and co-workers,” the ministry said in response to a question on if it is mandatory to take the shot.
Huge potential for medical technology sector in India: Pharma Secy
”We already have over 4,000 active health-tech startups based out of India… it is a demonstration of the spirit of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship that we have here, not to mention the inherent talent we have in our young population,” she said in a session on ‘Future of Medical Technology’ at CII Partnership Summit 2020.
From insurers to landlords, retailers to restaurants, COVID tarnsforms Economies
Like no other event in memory, the pandemic has upended economies in the United States and across the world — transforming how people work, travel, eat, shop and congregate. It has changed how students are educated, how people communicate, how households are entertained and which industries, geographic areas and categories of people will thrive and which will suffer.
It has widened a gap between educated and affluent people who can work from home and the less fortunate — people in lower-income households without college educations or high skills who depend solely on wages rather than stock or home equity gains — who now stand to be left further behind. And it’s forced many working mothers to quit their jobs for lack of child care.
Insurers, drugmakers sail into unknown with COVID vaccine rollout
Prices for new contracts in the transport insurance market were climbing sharply even before the pandemic following rising claims and reduced competition, and industry sources expect insurance rates to jump when pharma companies involved in COVID-19 vaccines renew their annual policies next year, given the additional risk
Some vaccine doses kept too cold, Pfizer having manufacturing issues, U.S. officials say
Officials are investigating whether storing the vaccines at excessively cold temperatures poses a safety or efficacy risk, he said.
Virus spread like wild fire over ineffective policy implementation: SC
The bench, also comprising Justices R S Reddy and M R Shah, said that frontline health care workers including doctors and nurses are already exhausted physically and mentally due to tireless work for eight months and some mechanism may be needed to give them intermittent rest.