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Coronavirus Situation “Worsening” Worldwide: WHO
After East Asia, Europe became the epicentre of the disease, but has now been overtaken by the Americas.
“Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is worsening,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva.
Health Ministry drafts rules to help COVID-19 patients access new drugs
According to a gazette notification of the draft rules published on June 5, a hospital or medical institution may import new drug for “compassionate use for treatment of patients suffering from life threatening disease or disease causing serious permanent disability or disease requiring therapy for unmet medical need”, which has not been permitted in the country, but under Phase-III clinical trial (human trial) in the country or abroad, by making an application to the Central Drug Regulator.
New Zealand says coronavirus ‘eliminated’ and life can resume without restrictions
There were no active cases in New Zealand for the first time since the virus arrived in late February, the health ministry said. New Zealand has reported 1,154 infections and 22 deaths from the disease.
New Zealand vowed to eliminate, not just contain, the virus. This means stopping transmission for an extended period after the last known case is cleared, while being ready to quickly detect and isolate any new cases including from abroad.
Covid-19 vaccine will take minimum 1 year to be available widely:Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong
Countries will also strive to become less dependent on one another, especially for essential goods and services such as food or critical medical supplies, the prime minister said.
“This will have strategic implications. Countries will have less stake in each other’s wellbeing. They will fight more over how the pie is shared, rather than work together to enlarge the pie for all. It will be a less prosperous world, and also a more troubled one. All these changes will impact Singapore greatly and mean that the next few years will be a disruptive and difficult time,” he cautioned.
Emerging market corporate credit quality down but not out
“This is almost like the Spanish Flu and the great recession combined,” Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, said of the situation last right? week.
Focus on house-to-house survey, prompt testing: Health min to civic bodies
To reduce the case fatality rate, the officials were briefed on measures that include prioritising high-risk and vulnerable segments like elderly people and people with comorbidities while contact-tracing to prevent deaths.
Delhi to assess if there is community transmission of COVID-19 in city
“If community transmission is ascertained at the meeting tomorrow, we will have to change our strategy accordingly,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said
Restrictions, lckdowns substantially slowed the Pandemic,may have helped prevent half a billion Covid cases in 6 countries,research says
The first peer-reviewed analysis of the impact of health policies suggests that the toll would have been vastly worse without lockdowns, social distancing, travel restrictions and other interventions.
Asian companies at higher risk of default this year: data
“We expected the pick-up in default rates to be mostly amongst smaller companies who already had a stretched liquidity profile and less access to alternative funding channels,” said Alaa Bushehri, head of emerging market debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management.
China denies Covid cover-up charges, says virus was first noticed on Dec 27
Researchers from a high-level expert team organised by the National Health Commission (NHC) confirmed that the virus was transmissible among humans for the first time on January 19, hours before they notified the public, and less than a month before the experts were alerted by the newly-discovered disease, it said.According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the coronavirus has infected over 68,00,000 people and killed nearly 4,00,000 across the world. The US is the worst affected country with over 1.9 million cases and more than 1,09,000 deaths, while the total number of cases in China stand at 84,177.