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European Commission plans cyber unit to tackle online crime in EU
“Today, we can no longer distinguish between online and offline threats. We need to pool all our resources to defeat cyber risks and enhance our operational capacity,” Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas said in a statement.
Reliance to set up 100 GW solar power plant, to invest Rs 75k in clean energy business
Reliance will set up 100 GW of solar power generating capacity.
`We plan to build four Giga Factories to manufacture and integrate all critical components of new energy ecosystem solar photovoltaic module factory, energy storage battery factory, electrolyser factory, fuel cell factory,” Ambani said.
These four factories will involve an investment of Rs 60,000 crore.
Insurers pay Rs18,600 crore for settling 15.40 lakh Covid-19 claims :IRDAI
“Over 19.11 lakh covid health claims have been reported as on 22nd June as far as medical insurance or hospitalisation is concerned. While in terms of death claims, which is handled by the life insurers, about 55,276 claims have been intimated and nearly 88 per cent i.e., 48,484 claims amounting to Rs 3,593 crore have already been settled,” informed while inaugurating 13th Global Insurance E-Summit & Awards organised by ASSOCHAM.
She added that the repudiated claim for health is just about 4 per cent and in life it is just about 0.66 per cent, which is negligible.
Thackeray instructs health dept to prepare for possible COVID third wave
The tail of the second wave is yet to come. You are not completely out of it,” added Thackeray. Meanwhile, An IIT Kanpur study by Prof. Rajesh Ranjan and Mahendra Verma, along with their team, on Monday said the third wave peak of COVID could be around September – October this year
Pfizer says Covid vaccine highly effective against Delta variant
“The data we have today, accumulating from research we are conducting at the lab and including data from those places where the Indian variant, Delta, has replaced the British variant as the common variant, point to our vaccine being very effective, around 90%, in preventing the coronavirus disease, COVID-19,” Alon Rappaport, Pfizer’s medical director in Israel, told local broadcaster Army Radio.
States” reopening strategy not ”prudent” as vaccination coverage low in many places: Report
According to the report, re-opening has commenced at a faster pace than it had anticipated as states have focused on declining test positivity rates as the guiding factor for easing measures rather than the share of population vaccinated.
Hybrid SIRC planned in 2021, Current EC of Singapore Reinsurers’ Association re-elected for 2021-22
“With the global roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines, we are cautiously optimistic that by the time the 17th SIRC is staged in November, some of the Safe Management Measures and travel restrictions that are currently in place will be eased so that we can welcome some of our loyal international supporters back to our shores. Hence, our Secretariat is already drawing up plans for a ‘hybrid event’, combining a virtual segment similar to the SIRC 2020 Re-Mind event that was organised last year, with a scaled-down ‘live event’ that will incorporate all health and safety protocols aligned with the prevailing SMMs mandated by the relevant authorities.”Marc Haushofer, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific & Executive Vice President of Validus Reinsurance Company, who has also been reelected as the SRA Chairman, for 2021-2022
9 months after lockdowns, US births see biggest decline since 1973
Coupled with the more than half a million Americans who have died from Covid-19, the drop in births will have long-term consequences for the population growth.
Delta variant ‘greatest threat’ to US’ COVID-19 efforts: Dr Fauci
”Similar to the situation in the UK, the Delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the US to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” Fauci told reporters during a virtual news conference here.
However, the “good news” is that the US vaccines are effective against the Delta variant, said Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Private hospitals to log 15-17% revenue growth in FY22: Crisil
“While the second wave lashed again in April, the first quarter this fiscal will be sharply better on-year, with occupancy of 75 per cent, almost double on-year. This will be largely on account of a surge in Covid-19 treatments more than offsetting the deferral of elective surgeries and outpatient footfalls,” Crisil Ratings Senior Director Manish Gupta said.
As the second wave recedes in the second quarter, Crisil expects pent-up demand for non-Covid treatments to rebound and support occupancy, he added.