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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co to acquire Willis Re and WTW’s corporate risk, broking, health and benefits services for $3.57 billion
Gallagher has agreed to purchase a group of businesses from Willis Towers Watson that includes:
Willis Re operations globally, excluding operations in mainland China and Hong Kong;
Global cedent facultative reinsurance, excluding operations in mainland China and Hong Kong;
Corporate Risk and Broking business unit known as Inspace globally and certain business undertaken for Aerospace Manufacturing clients;
Centre allows employees with medical qualification to undertake practice, teleconsultation
“In view of the unprecedented rise in the numbers of COVID-19 cases, and to utilise the in-house capabilities available in the government to contain the spread of COVID-19 virus and to provide relief to the public, it has been decided that the central government employees holding recognised qualifications in any system of medicine requires no permission from the Head of Departments (HoDs) concerned to undertake practice/provide teleconsultation,” it said.
India records 362,727 new coronavirus cases and 4,120 deaths
The active cases have increased to 37,10,525 comprising 15.65 per cent of the total infections.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 83.26 per cent, the data updated at 8 am showed.
Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are among 10 states that account for 72.42 per cent of the 3,62,727 new cases in the country in a span of 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Rajasthan are the other states in the list of 10.
Maharashtra reported the highest daily new cases at 46,781. It is followed by Kerala with 43,529 while Karnataka reported 39,998 new cases.
Researchers map how city people get health boost from nature
“Nature experience boosts memory, attention and creativity as well as happiness, social engagement and a sense of meaning in life,” said Gretchen Daily, senior author on the paper and faculty director of the Stanford Natural Capital Project. “It might not surprise us that nature stimulates physical activity, but the associated health benefits – from reducing cancer risks to promoting metabolic and other functioning – are really quite astonishing.”
BBB selects five to be directors at PSU general insurance companies
Satyajit Tripathi jas been recommended for the post of GM & Director of New India Assurance Company while Y.K. Shimray has been chosen as the GM & Director in United India Insurance Company,.
Sophia Singh has been named as the GM & Director of GIC Re. Similarly, both Arti Mathur and Nagalakshmi D have been recommended for two posts of GM & Director in Oriental Insurance Company
India’s brutal COVID wave brings tragic scenes to small town hospital
Medical oxygen has become a major concern with top hospitals in Delhi and other major cities issuing SOS calls that they were running out of supplies of the life saving gas because of the crush of patients.
The government is now trying to arrange supplies from abroad and from local industry. While the situation in Delhi has improved, smaller towns like Bijnor are struggling.
New Covid-19 cases in India have peaked, shows Cambridge tracker
Health services remain overwhelmed and several hospitals face shortage in oxygen supplies. The nation has reported more than 300,000 new infections for more than 20 straight days and the official tally of daily deaths has topped 4,000. The numbers are probably vastly undercounted, experts say.
The real pandemic risk from India is tracking new variants of Covid-19
India, too, needs to do its part. Even as it struggles to provide hospital beds, oxygen and antivirals to its gasping citizens, New Delhi must step up genome surveillance to figure out–for itself and the rest of the world–what exactly is going on. Plans being laid for reopening and economic recovery everywhere could depend on it.
Maharashtra: 2 die of mucormycosis in Thane, 6 hospitalised
According to health experts, the symptoms of mucormycosis include headache, fever, pain under the eyes, nasal or sinus congestion and partial loss of vision.
On Tuesday, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said there could be over 2,000 mucormycosis patients in the state as of now and with more and more COVID-19 cases coming up, ”their number would increase for sure”.
The state government has decided to use hospitals attached to medical colleges as treatment centres for mucormycosis, he had said.
Indian Covid variant B.1.617 detected in 44 countries, says WHO
However, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare clarified on Wednesday that WHO has not associated the term “Indian Variant” with B.1.617, now classified as “Variant of Concern”.