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Nobody losing jobs due to non-vaccination, Centre tells SC
"What is urgent is the vaccine mandate because people are losing...
UK financial sector urges caution over any ‘work from home’ law
“This is going to evolve, clearly, and that’s why legislation would be inappropriate,” Bruce Carnegie-Brown, chairman of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, told City & Financial’s City Week event.
“We have to allow different sectors of the economy to adapt in different ways to address this opportunity, frankly, for a more mixed economy of remote and physical work. The return to the office should be treated carefully so those working from home did not feel excluded.” Carnegie-Brown said
Pfizer in final stages of agreement to supply vaccine doses to India: CEO
Pfizer, he said, has made a specific plan that the mid and low-income countries, which includes India, will receive at least two billion of those doses. There would be at least one billion doses this year, said Pfizer’s CEO Dr Albert Bourla
‘If we are disciplined, then we can stay safe,’ says Health Ministry on COVID third wave
Speaking about rural vaccination, Paul said, “More than half of the doses administered over the last few weeks were inoculated in rural areas, which makes it clear that rural outreach is possible. We are fully hopeful and confident that it is completely possible for us to cover rural areas.” Dr Paul emphasised that gender balance in inoculation needs to be focused and said, “46 per cent of the people who received the vaccine yesterday were women and 53 per cent were men. We have to work on this imbalance, create awareness among women and bring them forward.”
Renault-Nissan plant’s social distancing to be audited in Tamil Nadu
The Renault-Nissan workers union petitioned the Madras High Court last month seeking to halt operations, saying that social distancing norms were being flouted and company-provided health benefits were outweighed by the risk to their lives.
The call for an inspection from the Madras High Court follows a review of Ford, Hyundai and Renault-Nissan plants by Tamil Nadu state officials last week, which said the nature of work in assembly lines posed “challenges in maintaining social distancing”
Britannia offers insurance coverage to 10,000 sales personnel, merchandisers
The company is offering a term insurance policy and hospitalisation insurance of Rs 2 lakh and Rs 1 lakh respectively, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Britannia Industries said in a statement.Besides, it is also contributing Rs 2 lakh each to the bereaved families of the personnel who were not insured earlier.
Britannia is also offering domiciliary COVID-19 treatment worth Rs 7,500 for patients who need support at home, apart from reimbursing vaccination costs.
Pandemic ‘rolled back’ sustainable development funding for weak economies: UNCTAD
UN: According to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2021, total foreign direct investment also dropped by more than a third globally, to $1 trillion (from $1.5 trillion in 2019), threatening progress on sustainable development. This level was last seen in...
Irrespective of co-morbidities, classified as deaths due to Covid: Centre
The MHA in its affidavit said: “All deaths with a diagnosis of Covid-19, irrespective of co-morbidities, are to be classified as deaths due to Covid-19. The only exception could be where there is a clear alternative cause of death, that cannot be attributed to Covid-19 (e.g. accidental trauma, poisoning, acute myocardial infarction, etc), where Covid-19 is an incidental finding.”
Record 8 million vaccinated in a single day as new guidelines kick in
“Today’s record-breaking vaccination numbers are gladdening. The vaccine remains our strongest weapon to fight COVID-19. Congratulations to those who got vaccinated and kudos to all the front-line warriors working hard to ensure so many citizens got the vaccine. Well done India!” tweeted Prime Minister on the occasion.
With positivity rate below 5% for 14 days, is second Covid wave over?
With the current positivity rate at less than 5 per cent, India’s COVID-19 second wave is on the wane as quickly as it rushed to its peak, but the end of it may yet be far away as more transmissible new variants such as Delta plus variant are emerging, said Naga Suresh Veerapu, associate professor at the School of Natural Sciences (SoNS), Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR.
Carmakers in India’s auto hub allowed to operate at full capacity
An Indian court tasked industrial safety officials this month with visiting carmakers in the southern state to draw up uniform safety guidelines.
The Madras High Court was responding to a case filed last month by workers at the Indian unit of the French-Japanese alliance of Renault SA Nissan Motor Co.