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Cats beat dogs in terms of bites in Kerala; 28,186 people sought treatment this January
The number of people who had suffered kitten bites began to show an upward trend since 2016, the year in which 1,60,534 people had sought treatment for the cat bite against 1,35,217 people for the attack of dogs, as per the statistics.
If cats bite as many as 1,60,785 people in 2017, the number rose to 1,75,368 persons in 2018 and increased to 2,04,625 and 2,16,551 in 2019 and 2020 respectively.
ICMR to start national sero surveys to assess Covid spread: Health ministry
On the US’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denying Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) to Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, the health ministry said, We respect each country’s regulatory system, but it will have no impact on India’s vaccine programme.
Delta variant 60% more transmissible, reduces vaccine effect: UK experts
However, while vaccination reduces the risk of severe disease, it does not eliminate it. With data showing that Delta is significantly more transmissible than Alpha, it is just as important as ever to follow public health advice, which has not changed. Get vaccinated, work from home where you can and remember hands, face, space, fresh air’ at all times. These measures work, and they save lives, Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency. said.
China tells banks, insurers to prepare ‘living wills’ to deal with potential risks
Insurers with no less than 200 billion yuan of total on-book assets at home and abroad should also prepare such plans, it added.
Volkswagen to receive 270 million euro from its D&O Liability insurers in dieselgate settlement
The settlement marks a major milestone in Volkswagen’s efforts to turn a page on its biggest ever corporate scandal, which has cost it more than 32 billion euros in vehicle refits, fines and legal costs so far.
The scandal, which Volkswagen initially blamed on a small number of rogue engineers, also spurred it to launch a huge investment in electric cars.
Apollo Hospitals Foundation’s Total Health Initiative launches Covid Care Centers in rural and tribal areas
The Total Health Program has initiated the opening of isolation centres along with releasing a medical manual on creating Isolation centres to curb the second wave in rural & tribal areas. These COVID-19 Isolation Care Centers are located in the Aragonda village area in the Thavanampalle Mandal, Andra Pradesh and in Amrabad Mandal, Telangana within the Nallamala forest which houses primitive tribes called The Chenchus.
Gmail blocks more than 100 million phishing attempts daily, says Google
“We are deeply concerned by these trends. Security is the cornerstone of our product strategy. We have dedicated teams like Project Zero who focus on finding and fixing vulnerabilities across the web to make the internet safer for all of us,” said Kent Walker, SVP of Global Affairs at Google.
Post Covid-19 Auckland tops the Economist’s Global Liveability Ranking; 8 Asia-Pacific cities make The Top 10
“One area where there has been regrettably little change is at the bottom of our rankings. Damascus remains the world’s least liveable city, as the effects of the civil war in Syria continue to take their toll. Indeed, most of the previous ten least liveable cities remain in the bottom ten this year, including Dhaka and Karachi in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Indian state sharply raises COVID-19 death toll prompting call for wide review
India has the second-highest tally of COVID-19 infections in the world after the United States, with 29.2 million cases and 359,676 deaths, according to health ministry data.But the discovery of several thousand unreported deaths in the state of Bihar has raised suspicion that many more coronavirus victims have not been included in official figures. The health department in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, revised its total COVID-19 related death toll to more than 9,429 from about 5,424 on Wednesday.
India’s Reliance says FCCU unit at Jamnagar refinery shut, exports may be delayed
Reliance, which operates the refining complex, did not give a reason for the “emergency shutdown” of the refinery’s fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU).