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Covid-19 community spread has started, cases in rural areas a bad sign:IMA
While speaking to ANI, Dr V K Monga, the Chairman of IMA Hospital Board of India, said: “This is now an exponential growth. Every day the number of cases is increasing by more than around 30,000. This is really a bad situation for the country. There are so many factors connected with it but overall this is now spreading to rural areas. This is a bad sign. It now shows a community spread.”
Insurers favor warehouse investments over offices as pandemic hastens real estate shifts
Pandemic lockdowns have spurred companies to re-examine their need for office space if employees continue working at home in the post-pandemic world, a trend that could drive down office occupancy rates and rents.
Record single day Covid-19 cases of 30k push tally near to one million,death toll climbs to 24,915
Covid-19 claims from govt authorised make-shift hospitals payble by insurers:IRDAI
In order to ensure that the costs of treatment of COVID – 19 are covered as per the terms and conditions of policy contract, a make-shift or temporary hospital permitted by Central / State government will be also regarded as a hospital or network provider and insurers have to settle the claims, said IRDAI on Thursday.
Russia trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, say UK, U.S. and Canada
British foreign minister Dominic Raab said it was “completely unacceptable” for Russian intelligence services to target work on the pandemic.
However,the Kremlin rejected Western allegations Russia had tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, Russian news agencies reported.
TASS cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Russia had nothing to do any alleged hacker attacks on pharmaceutical companies and research institutes in Britain.
Russia to mass produce experimental COVID-19 vaccine – wealth fund head
More than 100 possible vaccines are being developed to try to stop the pandemic. At least two are in final Phase III human trials, according to World Health Organization data – one being developed by China’s Sinopharm and the other by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford.
Novartis to provide ‘no profit’ COVID-19 drugs to low income countries
“We shouldn’t underestimate the stress that COVID puts particularly on fragile health systems,” Hegemann said, adding Novartis hoped to work with health authorities, faith-based organisations and NGOs to eliminate big mark-ups. “We are not targeting classical commercial distribution channels, but very direct channels.”
International flights to US,France begins tomorrow; Germany and UK to follow soon:MinisterPuri
Scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
U.N. aid chief to G20 on coronavirus: ‘Step up now or pay price later’
The United Nations increased its humanitarian appeal by more than a third to $10.3 billion to help 63 states, mainly in Africa and Latin America, tackle the spread and destabilizing effects of the coronavirus. This is up from the world body’s initial $2 billion request in March, then $6.7 billion in May.
So far, Lowcock said, the United Nations has only received $1.7 billion.
India tops a million coronavirus cases as pandemic hits villages
India recorded 34,956 new infections on Friday, taking the total so far to 1.004 million, with 25,602 deaths from COVID-19, federal health ministry data showed. That compares to some 3.6 million cases in the United States and 2 million in Brazil – both countries with populations under 400 million.
Epidemiologists say India is still likely months away from hitting its peak of cases, suggesting the country’s already overburdened healthcare system will come under further strain.