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Covid first wave led to increase in antibiotic misuse in India: Study
”Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to global public health,” said the study’s senior author, Sumanth Gandra, an associate hospital epidemiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the US.
”Overuse of antibiotics lessens their ability to effectively treat minor injuries and common infections such as pneumonia, which means that these conditions can become serious and deadly,” Gandra said.
Billions risk being without access to water and sanitation services by 2030
It notes that still only 81 per cent of the world’s population would have access to safe drinking water at home, leaving 1.6 billion without; just 67 per cent would have safe sanitation services, leaving 2.8 billion in the lurch; and only 78 per cent would have basic handwashing facilities, leaving 1.9 billion adrift.
For the first time, the report also presented emerging national data on menstrual health.
In many countries, it showed a significant proportion of women and girls are unable to meet their menstrual health needs.
Study indicates association of cloud bursts with forest fires
The study led by Alok Sagar Gautam from HNB Garhwal University and co-authored by S N Tripathi from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and Abhishek Joshi, Karan Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, R C Ramola from HNB Garhwal University can help improve the understanding of the complex mechanism of cloud burst, weather prediction and climate change condition over this region of Himalayas, the DST said.
Special drive launched to bring more farmers under PM crop cover scheme
A week-long drive, starting July 1, will cover all notified areas under the kharif 2021 season with special focus on 75 aspirational districts where crop insurance penetration is low.
Launching the special drive, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said so far 29.16 crore farmers have insured their crops under the PMFBY.
More than Rs 95,000 crore worth of claims have been provided to farmers since the launch of the scheme, against the total premium of Rs 17,000 crore paid by them, he said.
Centre rushes teams to six states reporting high number of Covid cases
The teams will visit the states,Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur immediately and monitor the overall implementation of COVID-19 management, especially in testing, including surveillance and containment operations; Covid Appropriate Behaviour and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen etc., and COVID-19 vaccination progress.
After COVID-19, ‘black fungus’ robs some in India of their eyesight
After a catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 in India since April which has seen its overall death toll climb to almost 400,000, thousands who contracted the virus also suffered from a rare fungal disease called mucormycosis, or “black fungus”.
Dr Reddy’s denied approval for Phase 3 trials of Sputnik Light vaccine
“The Subject Expert Committee has denied permission to Dr Reddy’s to conduct phase-3 trials on the Russian vaccine Sputnik Light in India,” sources told ANI here.
After launching Sputnik V, Russia had introduced a new single-dose vaccine called Sputnik Light in May.
Digit Insurance profit falls 30% to 123 crore in 2020-21, combined ratio at 109.4%
The insurer is raising $200 million from new investors Sequoia Capital India and IIFL Alternate Asset Managers as well as existing investor Faering Capital and others in a round expected to generate a valuation of $3.5 billion, said a statement by the company.
Cyber reinsurance jump 40 % in July renewals -Willis Re
The average ransom payment made by a business to restore data after a cyber attack was $220,000 in the first quarter, up 43% from the last quarter of 2020, according to cyber security firm Coveware.
In addition to the ransom payments, cyber insurance and reinsurance policies can cover the cost of restoring the network, business interruption losses and even the hiring of a PR agency to address reputational damage.