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Coronavirus cases in India climb to 4,40,215, nearly 11,000 recoveries in single day
During the last 24 hours, a total of 10,994 COVID-19 patients have recovered, taking the recovery rate to around 56.38 per cent amongst coronavirus infected patients, an official said.
Of the 312 fresh fatalities reported till Tuesday morning, 113 were from Maharashtra, 58 from Delhi, 37 from Tamil Nadu, 21 from Gujarat, 19 from Uttar Pradesh, 14 from West Bengal, 9 from Haryana, seven each from Rajasthan and Telangana, six from Madhya Pradesh, five each from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, three from Jammu and Kashmir, two each from Bihar and Punjab and one each from Chhattisgarh, Goa, Odisha and Uttarakhand.
Insurers can now offer short-term Covid-19 policies:IRDAI
Short term policies may be issued for a minimum term of three months to a maximum term of eleven months.In between three months and eleven months, the policy term should be in multiples of completed months, said IRDAI.
India’s COVID-19 tally 4,25,282 with 14,821 fresh cases, death toll rises to 13,699
The country crossed the four lakh-mark on Sunday eight days after recording three lakh COVID-19 cases and has witnessed a surge of 2,34,747 infections from June 1 till 22.India registered over 10,000 cases for the 11th day in a row
The number of recoveries also continued to surge with 2,37,195 patients cured so far, while there were 1,74,387 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am.One patient has migrated
ICICI Bank divests 1.5% stake in ICICI Pru Life for Rs 840 crores
The Government of Singapore today has acquired 1.14 percent equity stake in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company through open market transactions on June 22.It bought 1,64,30,820 equity shares (representing 1.14 percent of the total paid up equity capital) of ICICI Prudential at Rs 391.6 per share, as per bulk deals data on the National Stock Exchange.
The ICICI Bank’s shareholding in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited stands at approximately 51.4%
Govt warns against large-scale phishing attacks using COVID-19 as bait
‘Such emails are designed to drive recipients towards fake websites where they are deceived into downloading malicious files or entering personal and financial information,’ Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said in its latest advisory dated June 19.
The advisory noted that the ‘malicious actors’ are claiming to have 2 million individual/citizen email IDs and are planning to send email with the subject line: free COVID-19 testing for all residents of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad in a bid to coax users to disclose personal information
New quarantine norms may turn away Delhiites from getting tested: Experts
Noted city-based lung surgeon Dr Arvind Kumar on Saturday said the move would ramp up the demand for Covid care beds manifold, given the fact that the city government was already trying hard to manage beds to meet the huge projected requirements in view of the growing number of Covid-19 cases.
India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 4 lakh with highest single-day spike of 15,413 cases
This is the first time 15,000 Covid-19 cases were reported in a single day, 14,516 people had contracted the infection on Saturday, taking the tally to 410,461.India added 101,468 Covid-19 cases in just eight days—there were 308,993 infections on June 13.
55.48 per cent of the patients have recovered so far.
Hetero, Cipla get nod to manufacture, market antiviral drug remdesivir
The Union health ministry, in its ‘Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19’, recommended the use of the remdesivir on patients in moderate stage of the disease that is, those on oxygen. The drug has been included as an “investigational therapy” only for restricted emergency use purposes.
It is not recommended for those with severe renal impairment and high level of liver enzymes, pregnant and lactating women, and those below 12 years, the document on ‘Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19’ stated.
Coronavirus crisis: Centre extends Rs 50 lakh insurance cover for healthcare providers till September
The insurance cover despite being a well-publicised scheme, awareness of the same appearsto be little amongst some of State Nodal Agencies as a substantial number of some 75 claims, lodged till date are outside the purview of the policy on account of either the deceased not being a health worker or the deceased having died of other than corona related ailments, said Atul Sahay CMD, NIA.
SBI’s new mantra work-from-anywhere
On the business side, the focus of the bank in the days ahead would be on revisiting risk assessment and business procedures in addition to rapid adoption of digital technology, said State Bank of India’s annual report.
“Bank will also have to revisit its risk management framework, its internal models of risk assessment and capital planning and business procedures to better adapt to new operating environment,” the report said.