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The CEOs of American and United have said that even with middle seats empty, it is impossible to follow 6-foot social-distancing on a plane, so airlines rely on masks, deep cleaning and air-filtration systems on planes to prevent spreading the virus.

Brazil military hand out masks to protect isolated Amazon tribes

Jul 1, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic

A gold rush that has brought an estimated 20,000 gold prospectors to invade the Brazil largest reservation has poisoned rivers and destroyed forest, and the Yanomami say the miners have brought the novel coronavirus.

Will office buildings ever be the same? Empire State offers clues

Jun 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic

Global Brands Group, which licenses the likes of Calvin Klein, signed a 15-year lease for six floors of office space in 2011 but has already told employees based in New York that they will never be required to come back to the office.

Govt working on one-stop platform for all official data,says Statistics Minister

Jun 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy

The theme for Statistics Day, 2020 covers (Sustainable Development Goal) – SDG 3 (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages) and SDG 5 (Achieve Gender equality and empower all women and girls).

Gilead prices Covid-19 drug remdesivir at $2,340 in developed nations

Jun 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic

Remdesivir is expected to be in high demand as one of the only treatments so far shown to alter the course of Covid-19.After the intravenously administered medicine helped shorten hospital recovery times in a clinical trial, it won emergency use authorization in the United States and full approval in Japan
Remdesivir is expected to be in high demand as one of the only treatments so far shown to alter the course of Covid-19.After the intravenously administered medicine helped shorten hospital recovery times in a clinical trial, it won emergency use authorization in the United States and full approval in Japan.

PM Modi extends free ration scheme for poor till November amid COVID-19 crisis

Jun 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic

On the extension of the PMGKAY, he said it will cost the government Rs 90,000 crore more.Under the scheme, five kgs of wheat or rice and one kg of pulses per month will be given free of cost to the poor.

The scheme was initially rolled out for three months.

The government will spend a total of Rs 1.5 lakh crore on the scheme.

Covid-19 Pandemic:Tally rises to 5,66,840, general and health insurers receive 28,000 claims for Rs 445 crore

Jun 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic

With 18,522 people testing positive for coronavirus in a single day, India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 5,66,840 on Tuesday while the death toll rose to 16,893 with 418 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

Recording nearly 4,000 cases in the last 24 hours, Tamil Nadu has surpassed Delhi to regain the second spot among the list of worst-hit states by the pandemic, while Karnataka also recorded more than 1,100 overtaking Haryana and Andhra Pradesh.

Patanjali takes a u-turn; says never claimed to have made Covid-19 medicine

Jun 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic

“Patanjali has never claimed to make corona medicine.Rather, corona patients have been cured with this medicine. The drug was made under the license issued by the Ayush Ministry,” stated the reply by Patanjali Ayurved CEO Acharya Balakrishna to the notice.

“We made the combination of Tulsi Giloy Ashwagandha at an advanced level and when the clinical trials were done on the patients of Covid-19, the coronavirus patients were cured. A conspiracy has been hatched against us and if the Ayush Ministry tells us to conduct clinical trials once again then we are ready to face it,” he added.