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AIIMS Delhi server attack originated from China, say government sources; data from 5 servers safely retrieved
"AIIMS Delhi server attack was by the Chinese, FIR details that the...
New Zealand passes minimum age law aiming to ban smoking for next generation
The law states that tobacco can't ever be sold to anybody born on...
US health officials estimate 20M Americans have had virus
Thursday’s estimate is roughly 10 times as many infections as the 2.3 million cases that have been confirmed. Officials have long known that millions of people were infected without knowing it and that many cases are being missed because of gaps in testing.
10th Ebola outbreak in Congo declared over by WHO
As countries around the world face the COVID-19 pandemic, the DRC Ebola response provides valuable lessons. Many of the public health measures that have been successful in stopping Ebola are the same measures that are now essential for stopping COVID-19: finding, isolating, testing, and caring for every case and relentless contact tracing.
IMF chief Georgieva says coronavirus crisis could ultimately test $1 trillion war chest
The IMF on Tuesday forecast a deeper global recession than initially anticipated, as business closures, travel restrictions and social distancing measures persist in most countries. It now anticipates a global GDP contraction of 4.9% this year and a total output loss of $12 trillion through the end of 2021
IRDA finalises short-term standard Covid-19 policies,asks insurers to launch them by July 10
To be mandatorily termed as “Corona Rakshak Policy’’ it has been made mandatory for all the general insurers and exclusive health insurers, while life insurers have been encouraged to launch such products(benefit based) .
The benefit based policies, to be launched by a life insurers, will have a minimum sum insured of Rs50,000 and a maximum limit of Rs.2,50,000 (in the multiples of fifty thousand).For the standard covid indemnity policies, to be launched by the domestic general insurers and exclusive health insurers, the maximum sum assured can be Rs 5 Lakh (in the multiples of fifty thousand)
Both COVID Standard benefit based health policy and indemnity based health policies should be offered with a policy term of three and half months (3 ½ months), six and half months (6 ½ months) and nine and half months (9 ½ months) i.e,105 days,195 days and 285 days respectively, clarified IRDA..
Trump administration asks Supreme court to invalidate Affordable Care Act
Thursday’s report from the government showed that about 487,000 people signed up with HealthCare.gov after losing their workplace coverage this year. That’s an increase of 46% from the same time period last year.
WHO warns of oxygen shortage as COVID cases set to top 10 milli
The new coronavirus has hit 9.3 million people and killed more than 480,000 so far and is rising by about 1 million cases per week. This has pushed oxygen demand to 88,000 large cylinders per day, or 620,000 cubic metres of oxygen, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Asia’s largest slum Dharavi’s virus spread brought under control
With the highest population density of 2,27,136 persons per sq. km, Dharavi had 491 cases in April with the growth rate of 12% when the number of cases were doubling every 18 days.
As per an official release, the proactive measures adopted by the BMC brought down the COVID-19 growth rate to 4.3 per centin May and further down to 1.02 per centin June.
Maharashtra bans guru’s ‘spurious’ coronavirus treatment
Earlier yesterday, Ramdev had launched Coronil and Swasari as Ayurvedic cure for Covid-19, stressing that the medicines had been tested in “a clinical case study and clinical controlled trial”, which found that “69 percent patients recovered in three days and 100 % patients recovered within seven days” of the treatment.
Hours after its launch, India’s federal government asked Patanjali to provide details about Coronil, trials and sample size and asked the company to stop advertising the product until it had been approved.
India joins ‘Alliance for Poverty Eradication’ at UN as founding member
India has joined the alliance as a founding member and stressed that ending poverty is not just about monetary compensation but guaranteeing access of the poor to quality education, healthcare, clean water, sanitation, decent housing and social security.
One meter or two? How social distancing affects COVID-19 risk
The WHO says keeping a distance of at least one meter helps reduce the risk of the coronavirus spreading in the small liquid droplets that people spray out when they cough, sneeze and talk.
These droplets may contain the virus, and “if you are too close, you can breathe in the droplets”, the WHO says.