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California COVID-19 benefits fraud could reach $9.8 billion
The state has acknowledged that the department was bilked out of hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID-19 unemployment funds that went to fraudsters, including some in the name of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Others were sent to inmates in jails and prisons, including some on California’s death row.
Nord Stream 2’s future looks increasingly uncertain
Zurich Insurance Group AG terminated all of its coverages impacted by the sanctions and engineering firm Bilfinger SE is said to have cut ties with the project.
Fire at building site for India’s Serum Institute,Five die, vaccine output not hit
Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute.The fire is believed to have started because of an electrical fault and was controlled after three hours, reported NDTV.
He said its manufacturing plant at Manjari here suffered a loss of over Rs 1,000 crore in Thursday’s fire that claimed five lives. a loss of over Rs 1,000 crore
U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with dispute over Baltimore climate suit against energy firms
Baltimore and the other jurisdictions are seeking damages under state law for the harms they said they have sustained due to climate change, which they attribute in part to the companies’ role in producing fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The claims involve oil production and marketing, not the harmful emissions themselves.
The plaintiffs, for instance, have said they have had to spend more on infrastructure such as flood-control measures to combat sea-level rise caused by a warming climate.
South Africa to pay $5.25 a dose for AstraZeneca vaccine from India’s SII
The SII doses are intended for South Africa’s frontline healthcare workers, who have been under huge strain during a second wave of coronavirus infections. They are due to start arriving before the end of the month, before the AU doses become available from March.
9.99 lakh healthcare workers received vaccine shots till Thursday 6 pm: Health Ministry
As far as adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) are concerned, he said there was one hospitalisation in Rajasthan.”A person who was vaccinated on January 16 and developed intracranial hemorrhage on January 20 has been admitted to Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur in Rajasthan and it is not related to vaccination. Further no death has been reported today,” Agnani said.
“Reputational risks could result in potentially crippling business outcomes” :Willis Towers Watson Survey
Scott Burnett, Head of Corporate Risk & Broking Asia and Head of Asia, Willis Towers Watson, said “Loss of income and reduced customer bases are usually the main issues that businesses face following reputational damage. However, the impact of reputational damage can be felt across a business, from recruitment and retention of talent to lower environmental, social and governance (ESG) score, investor activism and increased industry litigation. Reputational risk is therefore increasingly of concern to our clients with most Risk Mangers now having some responsibility for risk mitigation in this area.
Israel includes pregnant women on Covid-19 vaccines priority list
Nachman Ash, the national coordinator on the pandemic said that despite the absence of research into the vaccination of pregnant women, “when looking at the biological logic, we assess that there is no risk to the pregnancy, no risk to the foetus”.
Telangana: Health worker dies after jab, death not due to it: Official
“Preliminary findings suggest that the death seems to be unrelated to vaccination,” state Director of Public Health G Srinivasa Rao said in a press release
COVID-19 active caseload further dips to 1.81 per cent of total cases
”Following the national trend of consistent decline in the active cases, 17 states and UTs have cases per million population lower than the national average. India’s cases per million population stand at 7,689,” the ministry said.
Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal account for 73 per cent of the total active cases in the country.