The reasons for increased obesity prevalence include rising trends...
Category:
Health
Latest
Govt plans to develop 600 wayside amenities on highways including clinics
"The amenities will include numerous facilities for passengers such...
Mukesh Ambani to foray into genome testing with a $145 kit
The genome test, which is about 86% cheaper than other offerings...
‘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.
Exposure to COVID-19 does not guarantee immunity, reinfection causes more severe symptoms, finds Lancet study
“The possibility of reinfections could have significant implications for our understanding of COVID-19 immunity, especially in the absence of an effective vaccine,” said Mark Pandori, for the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory and lead study author.
“We need more research to understand how long immunity may last for people exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and why some of these second infections, while rare, are presenting as more severe.”
German population slightly lower as virus hits immigration
Some 83.1 million people lived in Germany at the end of June, with the population declining by 40,000, or 0.05%, in the year’s first half, according to the Federal Statistical Office.
The statistics office pointed to a sharp decline in net immigration starting in March, when the pandemic hit Europe, and lasting through May a period that accounted for a population decline of 59,000. Most countries shut down public life and many, including Germany, largely shut their borders.
World economy in deep recession in 2020, growth to be -4.4%: IMF
Gopinath said for emerging market and developing countries, excluding China, IMF has a downgrade with growth projected to be – 5.7 percent in 2020 and then a recovery to 5 percent in 2021.
With this, the cumulative growth in per capita income for emerging-market and developing economies, excluding China, over 2020-21 is projected to be lower than that for advanced economies, she said.
Gopinath said that the considerable global fiscal support of close to $12 trillion and the extensive rate cuts, liquidity injections, and asset purchases by central banks helped save lives and livelihoods and prevented a financial catastrophe.