Cancer Research UK recommends you should only use e-cigarettes to...
Category:
Health
Latest
Global coalition with insurers devise tool to measure Workplace Mental Health
The assessment, known as the Mental Health at Work Index, will...
Study finds cerebral palsy can be treatable
In an animal model, the University of Auckland team showed that...
Insurers Hiscox and Beazley expect COVID-19 claims of up to $345 million
Hiscox said it expected to pay up to $175 million to settle claims if disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic that has put billions of people on lockdown lasts more than six months.That sum would decrease to up to $150 million if the disruption lasted six months or less.
U.S. unemployment waves keep hitting with millions more claims
The massive government stimulus package provides an extra $600 per week in unemployment benefits and expanded coverage to self-employed and other “gig” workers, presenting additional challenges for the states. Providing the additional aid has been wrought with technical issues and increased the number of applications flowing in.
Car insurers should repay premiums,British lawmakers say
Major U.S. motor insurers are offering credit to auto and motorcycle policy holders following a decline in driving, as most Americans stay at home under widespread orders to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.
U.S. coronavirus deaths top 47,000 after near-record increase on previous day
The United States has by far the world’s largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases at over 830,000. Cases rose 20,000 so far on Wednesday and were on track to continue the slow but steady decline seen throughout April.
India battles supply snags in race to build affordable ventilators
Before the pandemic, hospitals invested less in ventilators as they are expensive and the devices were available mainly in some hospitals in bigger Indian cities, Bhowmick added.
But companies are now pushing to make affordable devices.
Dynamatic Technologies is making a $33 ventilator that does not need electricity to function, while AgVa is aiming to make 10,000 ventilators by mid-May, priced under $2,000.
AgVa is collaborating with automaker Maruti Suzuki and state-run Bharat Electronics to make parts.
Lockdown In India impacted 40 million internal migrants: World Bank
The Bank said governments would do well to consider short, medium and long-term interventions to support stranded migrants, remittance infrastructure, loss of subsistence income for families back home, and access to health, housing, education, and jobs for migrant workers in host/transit countries and their families back home.
More calibrated monetary, fiscal stimulus on the anvil, says Principal Economic Adviser
International passenger travel would remain shut for a long time, not for weeks but for months, he said citing examples of sectors which will continue to be non-functional.
COVID-19 claims so far likely to be manageable; reinsurers de-risking:Willis Re Report
Reinsurers have showed that the systemic shock of COVID-19 is manageable so far, but the future strength of the sector depends on the severity of the pandemic’s continuing impact on health and economies. The industry retains sufficient capital buffer for extreme events, but the extent to which reinsurers can withstand continued asset-side volatility and increased claims emergence remains to be seen.
Reinsurers have started to de-risk their balance sheets by holding cash, which will have a significant impact on investment returns. Willis Re currently estimates a 5% hit to the global reinsurance capital base, roughly US$30 billion pre-tax.
‘Virus will be with us for a long time’, WHO chief warns
“Most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics and some that were affected early in the pandemic are starting to see a resurgence in cases,” Tedros told Geneva journalists in a virtual briefing.
“Make no mistake we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time,” he said, while noting that epidemics in Western Europe appear to be stabilising or declining.
Death toll due to COVID-19 touches 645; cases rise to 20,178,government plans countrywide survey
In addition to keeping a track of all citizens with the Arogya Setu app, the Indian government has now decided it will call up every mobile number in the country and conduct a survey regarding the pandemic. Details about the nature of the survey are not immediately clear