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Richer countries administer most of world’s vaccinations
As of Thursday, 40 per cent of the Covid-19 vaccines administered globally have gone to people in 27 wealthy nations that represent 11 per cent of the global population.
Countries making up the least-wealthy 11 per cent have gotten just 1.6 per cent of Covid-19 vaccines administered so far, according to an analysis of data collected by the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.
SBI drags feet on loan to Adani firm for controversial Australian coal mine
The Carmichael mine has been the focus of environmental protests since it was proposed in 2010. SBI shareholders have joined the opposition. BlackRock and Norway’s Storebrand ASA raised their objections over the past year, and Amundi SA divested its holdings of SBI’s green bonds because of the bank’s ties to the Carmichael mine.
SBI Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara, who took charge in October, is reticent to disburse the funds to Adani given the opposition to the Australian project, bank officials said. Still, no decision has yet been made about the loan, they said.
India reports a record 131,968 new COVID-19 infections
Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday there was no shortage of shots for the groups eligible for vaccination, with more than 43 million doses in stock or in the pipeline. India has been inoculating about 4 million people a day.
He informed that 0.46 per cent of active COVID-19 patients are on ventilators and 2.31 per cent are in ICU.
India records over 1.26 lakh new COVID-19 cases, highest this year
With 685 new COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the toll in the country has mounted to 1,66,862. Currently, there are 9,10,319 active cases in the country. As many as 59,258 people were discharged or recovered from the disease during the same period.
Ten states including Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Punjab have shown a steep rise in the daily COVID-19 cases accounting for 84.21 per cent of the 1,26,789 new infections, the health ministry said on Thursday.
Covid: New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India starting Apr 11
“We are temporarily suspending entry into New Zealand for travellers from India,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a news conference in Auckland.
The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border on Thursday, of which 17 were from India.
IMF sees evidence of normalisation of India’s economic activity, projects 12.5 pc growth in 2021
“The evidence we were getting in the last couple of months in terms of the normalisation of economic activity,” said IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath
Passenger vehicle sales jump 28 pc in March, Covid concerns remain: FADA
Commercial vehicles witnessed a downswing of 42.20 per cent to 67,372 registrations versus 1.16 lakh in March 2020. Two-wheeler registrations totalled 11.95 lakh last month compared to 18.46 lakh in March 2020, marking an downturn of 35.26 per cent.
However, passenger vehicle registrations edged higher by 28.39 per cent to 2.79 lakh from 2.17 lakh in the year-ago period.
CEO Mary Barra bets GM can grow beyond cars and trucks
The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is looking for new enterprises to expand the automaker’s sources of revenue well beyond vehicle sales and is incubating ventures from commercial delivery services to vehicle insurance, to address future markets worth an estimated $1.3 trillion. That doesn’t include flying cars, a market sector that alone could be worth $1.3 trillion, Fletcher told Reuters.
The goal is to become a diversified purveyor of mobility services – the automotive equivalent of Apple, with revenue that rolls in monthly or quarterly from software and services long after the initial product is sold.
India InsurTech Association and Xceedance join hands to promote insurtech sector in India
IIA has joined forces with Xceedance – as the principal sponsor – to forge global partnerships, develop talent, provide insurtech start-up resources, and build its core team. Co-founded by Shwetank Verma, Subhajit Mandal, and Prerak Sethi, IIA bring togethers various India-based insurtech start-ups, re/insurance companies, service providers, and insurance professionals to increase the velocity of digital transformation across the Indian insurance industry.
The association already includes 32 insurtech members, and facilitates networking and focused thought leadership sessions for its diverse constituents.
Indian PM rejects calls to widen vaccine access as infections hit record
“It’s not that you can set up these big vaccine factories overnight,” Modi said addressing chief ministers of states via video conference. “Whatever production we have got, we will have to prioritise.”
Many states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Punjab have crossed the first wave of peak in terms of COVID-19 cases. This is a serious concern. People have become complacent. In most states administration has also become relaxed,” he said.