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Over 1 billion in 43 nations at risk amid cholera outbreaks, WHO says
Right now, 22 countries across the world are fighting outbreaks of...
Nations step closer to global guides on pandemics, disease outbreaks:WHO
At the UN General Assembly’s first-of-its-kind science session,...
Eli Lilly pauses trial of antibody drug Trump touted as COVID-19 ‘cure’ over safety concern
“Out of an abundance of caution, the ACTIV-3 independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) has recommended a pause in enrollment.Lilly is supportive of the decision by the independent DSMB to cautiously ensure the safety of the patients participating in this study,”,” Lilly spokeswoman Molly McCully said in an emailed statement. “
World Bank approves $12B to finance Virus Vaccines, Care
The world’s richest countries have locked up most of the world’s potential vaccine supply through 2021, raising worries that poor and vulnerable communities will not be able to get the shots. Meanwhile, an ambitious international project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people, called Covax, is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines themselves.
Worried European nations revive curfews, lockdowns amid ‘exponential growth’ in virus
Most European governments eased lockdowns over the summer to start reviving economies already battered by the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
But the return of normal activity – from packed restaurants to new university terms – fuelled a sharp spike in cases all over the continent.
‘Long COVID’ may affect multiple parts of body and mind, doctors say
Britain’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) said one common theme among ongoing COVID patients – some of whom are seven months or more into their illness – is that symptoms appear in one physiological area, such as the heart or lungs, only to abate and then arise again in a different area.According to UK-based patient group Long Covid SOS, data from a King’s College London-devised symptom tracker app shows that 10% of COVID-19 patients remain unwell after three weeks, and up to 5% may continue to be sick for months.
Nearly nine of 10 workers want to keep work-from-home option: survey
Cisco Vice President Gordon Thomson said companies would have to reconfigure how they operate to help meet the new demands of workers, who prioritised effective communication and collaboration above everything else.
Facebook will ban ads discouraging people from getting vaccines
Facebook is working with public health partners like the World Health Organization and UNICEF on messaging campaigns to increase immunization rates, they added.
Anti-vaccine content and misinformation about the new COVID-19 vaccines have flourished on social media platforms including Facebook during the coronavirus pandemic, researchers told Reuters earlier this year.
Lloyd’s headquarters to be transformed into a workplace for the future:CEO
“The Lloyd’s building is almost 35 years old, so how can it be the right environment for the market to operate?For the first time, we have both a virtual capability and a real capability operating simultaneously at Lloyd’s. We’ve also set some ideas on the table to metaphorically rip up the underwriting room and decide what it should look like in the 21st century, and what the marketplace should look like in the 21st century,” said Neal while speaking at a Virtual Reinsurance Renewal Season fireside chats.hosted by Dominic Christian, global chairman of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions,
Asia-Pacific countries begin to ease pandemic-related travel bans, but hurdles remain
For now, few people are likely to travel because of testing and insurance requirements, and in some cases the need to quarantine upon return home, meaning the deals offer limited hope for airlines and the tourism industry.
A Singapore-Indonesia deal announced on Monday for essential business and official travel will require an application and COVID-19 swab tests both before and after travel.
New COVID-19 cases to below 60k daily, caseload rises to 71,75,880
There are 8,38,729 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 11.69 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated
The COVID-19?case fatality rate was recorded at 1.53 per cent
General Insurance Industry’s prm remains flat at Rs 97K cr ,New India’s growth stays uniquely positive in H1 FY2020-21
New India Assurance ,which has consistently maintained a positive growth since Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in March, has completed both H1 FY 20-21, and September month with a positive growth. The total premium of the largest general insurance company, at Rs14,100 crore, has gone up by 4 per cent y-o-y in H1 FY2020-21.
The industry’s health portfolio,which has emerged as the largest portfolio,by displacing motor business, has now a market share of 31 per cent and , has grown by 13 per cent y-o-y to Rs 22,903 crore in the first five months(Apr-Aug) of the current fiscal.
The market share of motor portfolio, generating a total premium of Rs 22, 253 crore, down 16 per cent, in H1 FY2020-21, has fallen from 37 per cent, as of Sept, 2019-20, to 30 per cent in Sept, 2020-21.