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CBI asks ex-J&K governor Satya Pal Malik to answer queries related to insurance ‘scam’
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India recorded largest reductions in malaria cases in South-East Asia between 2000-2019: WHO
“Countries in South-East Asia made particularly strong progress, with reductions in cases and deaths of 73 per cent and 74 per cent, respectively. India contributed to the largest drop in cases region-wide from approximately 20 million to about 6 million, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the report’s forward.
COVID-19 worsens Europe’s inequalities in yet another way – the fertility gap
Evidence suggests the coronavirus is deterring would-be parents from conceiving in most of Europe, but especially in the southern countries – from Italy to Greece – where safety nets are weakest and the birth rate was already in strong decline.
New AI model may help treat cancer more effectively, study says
“This will help cancer researchers to prioritise which drug combinations to choose from thousands of options for further research,” said Tero Aittokallio from the University of Helsinki in Finland.
The researchers noted that the same machine learning approach could be used for non-cancerous diseases.
Factbox: When and which COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be available in Asia
Japan has deals to purchase 120 million doses from Pfizer/BioNTech in the first half of next year, 120 million from AstraZeneca, of which first 30 million will be shipped by March 2021, and 250 million from Novavax.
It is also in talks with Johnson & Johnson and has a deal with Shionogi & Co.
Never spoke about inoculating entire country with COVID-19 vaccine: Govt
“Our purpose is to break the chain of virus transmission. If we are able to vaccinate a critical mass of people and break the chain of transmission, then we may not have to vaccinate the entire population,” ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said
Singapore becomes first country to approve sale of lab-grown meat
Demand for alternatives to regular meat is surging due to consumer concerns about health, animal welfare and the environment. Plant-based meat options, popularised by Beyond Meat Inc and Impossible Foods, increasingly feature on supermarket shelves and restaurant menus.
Bharti AXA Life posts 10% growth in renewal premium to Rs 594 crore in H1 FY2020-21
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Bharti AXA Life Insurance, today said the company registered 10 per cent growth in its renewal premium to Rs 594 core in the first half of the financial year 2020-21 from Rs 541 crore in the corresponding fiscal period a year ago. The COVID-19...
Dictionary.com picks ‘pandemic’ as its 2020 word of the year
Asymptomatic, furlough, non-essential, hydroxychloroquine and a host of other pandemic-related words saw massive increases in lookups as well. Jennifer Steeves-Kiss, chief executive officer of Dictionary.com, said one key ingredient in the hunt for the site’s word of the year is sustained interest over time. Pandemic met that standard.
Russian hospital says it began civilian coronavirus vaccinations last week
Domodedovo’s Central City Hospital said on its website that residents wanting for inoculation had to register on a government website in advance and bring along a negative COVID-19 test result and ID documents on the day.
Pandemic Motors: Europeans snap up old cars to avoid public transport
The surge in interest in used cars is neither good news for struggling mass transit networks nor the environment as dirty old cars appear to be more in demand than new electric vehicles.
In the longer term, however, the shift away from public transport towards “individual mobility” in the pandemic era is expected to help carmakers, hit by a 27% slump in new vehicle sales across Europe in the first 10 months of 2020.