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Insurers settled over 2.25 lakh death claims on account of Covid: Irdai report
The net incurred claims of the general insurers stood at Rs 1.41...
Random Covid testing for arriving international passengers from December 24
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Counting the burials: African nations scramble to track COVID-19
Only eight countries in Africa – Algeria, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, and South Africa – record more than 75% of deaths, according to the United Nations.
WHO warns that coronavirus crisis may get ‘worse and worse and worse
“Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from the U.N. agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
Antibody immunity to coronavirus may be short-lived: UK study
“This study has important implications when considering widespread serological testing, Ab protection against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 and the durability of vaccine protection, the paper adds.
Touchless: How the world’s busiest airport envisions post-COVID travel
The Dallas airport is also testing new technology around better sanitization, beginning with ultraviolet technology that can kill germs before they circulate into the HVAC system.
Russia’s Sechenov University successfully completes clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine
According to Alexander Lukashev, the director of the Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases at Sechenov University, the objective of this stage of the study was to show the vaccine’s safety for human health, which was successfully done.
Early detection of Covid cases has resulted in low fatality rate: Vardhan
India’s total coronavirus cases have increased to 8,49,553. The country now has 2,92,258 active cases out of the total that were confirmed positive. Yesterday, the tally breached the 8-lakh mark. The total number of deaths that have been reported so far has increased to 22,674. India reported 28,637 new cases in the last 24 hours.
Coronavirus bringing record $1 trillion of new global corporate debt in 2020 – report
“COVID has changed everything,” said Seth Meyer, a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson, the firm that compiled the analysis for a new corporate debt index. “Now it is about conserving capital and building a fortified balance sheet”.
Priority is close monitoring, guiding containment work in areas with high infection rate: PM Modi
According to a statement issued by the Prime minister’s Office, Modi also directed that real-time national level monitoring and guidance should be provided to all affected states and places with high test positivity rates.
India’s COVID-19 tally reaches 8.2 lakh with 27,114 new cases, death toll climbs to 22,123
While the total coronavirus caseload surged to 8,20,916 on Saturday, there were 2,83,407 active cases and 5,15,385 recoveries. The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners
“Thus, around 62.78 per cent of patients have recovered so far,” an official said
Pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne
WHO still insists on more definitive proof that the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, can be transmitted through the air, a trait that would put it on par with measles and tuberculosis and require even more stringent measures to contain its spread.