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“Our investigation has now established that this criminal has...
Heat-related deaths in India increased by 55% from 2000-2004 to 2017-2021
Improvements in air quality will help to prevent deaths. In 2020,...
Health secy Sudan gets 3-month extension, Tarun Bajaj appointed DEA Secretary
Tarun Bajaj, Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, will be the new Department of Economic Affairs Secretary.A few years back,Bajaj was joint secretary, Insurance, Ministry of Finance.
More coronaviruses looming large: Words of caution from China’s ‘bat woman’
What is worrying is that China is not the only “hot spot” from where such a future outbreak could originate, said the report, adding that other major emerging economies, such as India, Nigeria and Brazil, are also at high risk.
Beijing bans ‘uncivilised’ behaviour to improve public hygiene amid coronavirus
Fines for littering, spitting and defecation in public were upped to a maximum of 200 yuan (S$40), from a previous upper limit of 50 yuan.
In the past, these regulations were enforced in a patchy way and the habits have not been stamped out completely.
Airlines to suffer USD11.2 billion revenue loss, 2.9 million jobs at risk: IATA
Conrad Clifford, IATA’s Regional Vice President for Asia-Pacific.identified India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand as priority countries that need to take action. In India, passenger demand in 2020 is estimated to fall by 47 per cent to 89.7 million.
Covid-19 Pandemic:U.S. death toll tops 51,000, Britain nears grim milestone of 20,000
The death toll from COVID-19 in hospitals across the United Kingdom increased on Friday by 684 in 24 hours to 19,506.Passing the 20,000 mark will be an uncomfortable moment for the government, whose Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said on March 17 that keeping the toll under that number would be “a good outcome in terms of where we would hope to get.”
Covid-19 Pandemic:Insurers feel the heat as chefs, Trump join calls for payouts,insured losses to touch $30-60 bn
Insurers’ protests may be futile. Eight U.S. states have introduced legislation which would require insurers to pay claims, mainly to small businesses, despite exclusions. Many of the bills would let insurers seek reimbursement from the states.
COVID-19 death toll rises to 775, cases climb to 24,506, Govt allows all local shops to open
Meanwhile,in a reprieve to public at large, the government on Friday night allowed opening of neighbourhood and standalone shops, including those located in residential complexes within municipal areas, but at a 50 per cent strength and after taking necessary precautions.
Australia will make it a crime to use coronavirus tracing data for non-health purposes
The federal government has said existing “social distancing” measures will remain until at least mid-May, and that its willingness to relax them will depend on whether people download the smartphone “app” to identify who a person with the illness has had contact with.
The tracing app, which is yet to be released, has raised concerns from legal and privacy advocates who have said the location data it collects may be used by unrelated bodies like law enforcement agencies.
Shuttered businesses appoint lawyers to take on UK insurer Hiscox
The Hiscox Action Group said on Thursday it represented more than 200 policyholders with “dozens more joining daily”, that discussions with a litigation funder were advanced and that it had appointed Mishcon de Reya as legal adviser.
The dispute hinges on whether the government lockdown and the coronavirus are enough to trigger Hiscox’s business interruption insurance, designed for insured premises that cannot be used because of restrictions imposed by a public authority and in the event of a notifiable disease or infection.
In a statement last week, the insurer said: “General business interruption policies across the industry, including Hiscox’s, were not designed to cover the extraordinary circumstances caused by this pandemic.”
Covid-19 cases in India reaches 23,502,death toll rises to 718
“The growth of COVID-19 cases has been more or less linear, not exponential; this indicates that the strategies we adopted have succeeded in containing the infection to a particular level. Post imposition of lockdown, while the number of new positive cases has increased by 16 times, testing increased by 24 times,” Mishra said in his presentation.