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COVID deals new blow to foreign carmakers’ Indian dream
With their Indian factories running well below capacity and sales far behind original hopes, firms like Ford, Honda, Nissan, Skoda and Volkswagen face difficult decisions about future investments.
“It is a survival issue,” said one senior executive with a Western automaker who declined to be named.
Covid vaccination chances of hospitalisation reduce by 75-80 pc: Govt
”Seropositivity rate above 18 years was 67 per cent and below 18 years was 59 per cent. So even at those places, where more intense wave came, which were urban, the seropositivity among children and adults remained almost the same,” Paul said.
Overall, it was seen that children contracted the infection but it remained mild among them and children might not get affected in isolation in the next wave but preparations have been stepped up in case the virus changes its behaviour, he said.
Experts urge India’s richest state to gear up for third wave of COVID-19
“We should have a clear plan, and keep our preparations ready for the next few weeks, whenever the next wave comes,” Rahul Pandit, a member of the state’s COVID task force and a director of Fortis Hospitals Mumbai, told Reuters.
“Our efforts should be directed in delaying the wave as much as we can, and even try to prevent it.”
Delta Covid variant becoming globally dominant: WHO’s Soumya Swaminathan
“The Delta variant is well on its way to becoming the dominant variant globally because of its increased transmissibility,” Swaminathan told a news conference.
17 children died of Covid-19 in Meghalaya, state taking steps to combat third wave: Minister
“So far, 5,101 children in the age group of 0-14 years were diagnosed with the disease. Seventeen children died of the infection since last year,” the minister said.
Noting that the third wave of the pandemic, which is likely to strike later this year, may pose a greater threat to the children, as suggested by experts, he said the state government is making necessary preparations in anticipation.
Drone corporation to help departments get aerial surveys done: Khattar
Under the programme, 100 drones will be procured in the first phase. The equal number of drones will be procured in the next phase, he told reporters here on the completion of 600 days of the BJP-JJP government.
Any government department can approach the Drone Corporation of Haryana for an aerial survey, he said.
Suicide remains one of leading causes of death worldwide: WHOWHO
From job loss to financial stress and social isolation, the many risk factors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic make suicide prevention “even more important now”, said the top WHO official.
Among young people aged 15-29, suicide was the fourth leading cause of death after road injury, tuberculosis and interpersonal violence, according to the study: Suicide worldwide in 2019.
Cooperation from insurance companies for road safety activities is negligible:Gadkari
”Around 1.5 lakh persons die due to road accidents (every year)… My internal target is before 2024, we will reduce deaths and accidents by 50 per cent,” the Road Transport and Highways Minister said.
Around 50 per cent of road accidents are due to road engineering problems, he pointed out.
US govt to invest $3.2bn to develop pills to treat Covid
The new programme, coming on top of the $18 billion success story that resulted in effective vaccines in record time, will create platforms that will initially target coronaviruses, and then could be expanded to other viruses with pandemic potential – helping to better prepare the nation for future viral threats, the US department of health and human services announced on Thursday.
Reinsurers look at dumping coal from bulk-buy policies in green gambit
Five of the world’s six largest reinsurers – Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re, SCOR and Lloyd’s of London – have already scaled back bespoke coverage for coal projects. But only Swiss Re, in a statement in March, has said it will go further and tighten its treaty reinsurance stance.
A rail contractor to Adani Enterprises’ giant Australian coal project last month, for example, asked the Australian government for help to obtain insurance that it was not able to secure from the market.
“The first consequence is insurance is harder to get, the second consequence is it’s expensive, the third consequence is there are all sorts of caveats on it and at the extreme you might not be offered it”, said Paul Merrey, insurance partner at KPMG.