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Delhi govt launches financial assistance scheme for families of Covid victims
”Each family in which a death has occurred due to Covid will be provided an ex gratia of Rs 50,000.”
”We are launching a portal through which such people can apply for financial assistance. Our representatives will also visit such families and get applications filled up,” he added.
The chief minister said such representatives will not reject claims of families in case any document is missing and will only facilitate the process.
There is no income criterion to apply for financial assistance under the scheme.
73 districts reported over 10 pc Covid positivity rate in June 29-July 5 week: Govt
Addressing a press conference, Joint Secretary in the health ministry Lav Agarwal said these 73 districts include Arunachal Pradesh (18), Rajasthan (10), Manipur (9), Kerala (7), Meghalaya (6), Tripura (4), Sikkim (4), Odisha (3), Nagaland (3), Assam (2) and Mizoram (1).
Ayurveda practitioners to discuss devplt, adopting uniform treatment protocol for covid-19 in kids
Last month, the Ayush ministry released detailed guidelines to deal with COVID cases in children, stressing the need for preventive treatment (Prophylaxes) as the most effective approach to protect children from this deadly virus.
U.K. is easing Covid rules, bringing businesses fresh concerns
Ministers highlight the link between infections, hospitalizations and deaths has been weakened by one of the world’s most advanced vaccination programs, yet infections have increased by two-thirds in the past week, fueled by the fast-spreading delta variant.
Tony Danker, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said it will be “critical” to build both customer and employee confidence and that the government has a “vital” role to play in providing guidance to employers. The big question remains: Will consumers come back?
India’s June services activity shrinks at fastest rate in 11-months
“PMI data for June showed quicker declines in new business, output and employment that were sharp but much softer than those recorded in the first lockdown.”
Muted demand sank the new business sub-index to its lowest since July 2020.
As a result, firms shed headcount for a seventh straight month, with the fastest reduction rate recorded in June. A Reuters poll taken around a month ago showed the job crisis may worsen over the coming year.Asia’s third largest economy, which has already recorded more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, is still reporting over 40,000 coronavirus cases per day, taking the total number of infections to over 30.5 million.
Increase in household debt stress is worrying: SBI report
Household debt — after taking into account retail loans, crop loans and business loans from financial institutions like commercial banks, credit societies, NBFCs and HFCs — has sharply increased to 37.3 per cent of GDP in FY21 from 32.5 per cent of GDP in FY20.
“The decline in bank deposits in FY21 and concomitant increase in health expenditure may result in further increase in household debt to GDP in FY22,” said the report. India’s household debt to GDP ratio is still lower than other countries, though there is need to supplement wage income as a percentage of GDP that has been declining.
Rural Thrust: Indian Insurance Penetration
Private insurers, mostly confining their operations to urban India, aim at making hefty profits while as public sector insurers, currently struggling for their survival, both defeating the actual purpose of delivery of insurance services to the public. Lack of trained manpower at rural level with unaggressive marketing strategy
COVID-19 recovered with one/two doses of vaccine have higher protection against Delta variant: Study
“The high transmissibility associated with Delta variant led to second wave of the pandemic in India which affected millions of people. Besides this, variant of concerns have been reported to show lower neutralisation to several approved vaccines. This has led to breakthrough infections after completion of vaccination regimen,” it said.
India to make CoWIN available to all countries: PM Mod
Asserting that vaccination is the best hope for humanity to emerge successfully from the pandemic, Modi said right from the beginning, “we in India decided to adopt a completely digital approach while planning our vaccination strategy”.
Israel sees steep drop in Pfizer vaccine efficacy rate: Report
The government is considering reinstating additional coronavirus-related restrictions after restoring a mandate to wear masks indoors in public spaces. Officials are also discussing whether to recommend a third dose of vaccine, the report said.