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Airlines to supermarkets: Living with Covid is tough in gridlocked economy
Still, as the pandemic persists into its third year, it’s becoming...
India reports over 3.33 lakh new COVID-19 cases, daily positivity rate at 17.78 pc
As many as 525 fatalities were registered in the last 24 hours,...
Fed-up young workers fear they need offices to save their careers
Despite a majority under 30 saying remote work made them more productive, over half of the survey’s respondents across Europe–ranging in age from 18 to 45–say they feel anxious about a lack of training and career opportunities when thinking long-term about the future of work.
UK PM Johnson expected to delay Covid lockdown end by 4 weeks to July 19
On Sunday, the UK recorded 7,490 new cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths, with the seven-day average for cases up 49 per cent compared with the seven days before.
Scientists and health officials have called for a delay in lifting all social distance norms in order to allow the vaccination programme to gain further ground, with second doses for the older age groups and first doses for the younger population cohorts of over-25s now eligible for jabs.
Novavax: Large study finds Covid-19 shot about 90% effective
Side effects were mostly mild – tenderness and pain at the injection site. There were no reports of unusual blood clots or heart problems, Erck said.
The Novavax vaccine can be stored in standard refrigerators, making it easier to distribute.
No door-to-door vaccine drive in national policy, Centre tells HC
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh said the Centre, however, kept improvising and updating its policy from time to time and perhaps, sometime in future, it might permit door-to-door vaccination drives.
Singh, said some state governments and municipal bodies had decided to ignore its advisory guidelines and were conducting door-to-door vaccination for special categories of citizens, but it was not possible yet to make such drives a part of the national policy.
Vaccines don’t prevent COVID but will help in keeping symptoms mild: Sangita Reddy
Highlighting the role of vaccines and timely diagnosis and treatment, she said, “The imp point 2 remember- vaccine dont prevent #COVID BUT help keep symptoms Mild. Timely diagnosis & treatment r key 2 quick recovery”.
Pandemic boost for aging-linked stocks, pent-up medical demand and online insurance buying
The number of people aged 65 and over is projected to double to more 1.5 billion by 2050, greatly increasing their economic impact. The total spending power of the older population globally was about $8.4 trillion in 2020, according to World Data Lab. That’s expected to grow to $14 trillion over the next decade.
Govt asks ministries to target 20% reduction in controllable expenditure
However, expenditure related to containment of the pandemic is excluded from the scope of this order.
The memorandum said, ministries should aim to control expenditures like overtime allowance, rewards, domestic and foreign travel, office expenses, rents, rates and taxes, royalty.
Sharpening income inequalities telling story of ‘uneven’ recovery: Subbarao
A study by the Azim Premji University has found that the one year of Covid-19 pandemic has pushed 230 million people into poverty with a 15 per cent increase in poverty rate in rural India and a 20 per cent surge in urban India,” Former RBI Governor D Subbarao said citing the findings of a study.
“Add to that CMIE data showing that the unemployment rate has gone up as high as 12 per cent in May, 10 million jobs have been lost just on account of the second wave and 97 per cent of the households in the country have experienced declines in incomes,” he added.
No substantial evidence to suggest children will be more affected in Covid third wave: Report
According to the data, mortality rates amongst these surveyed hospitalised Covid-19 positive children below the age of 10 years was 2.4 per cent and about 40 per cent of the children who died had comorbidities.
PM Narendra Modi calls for ‘one earth one health’ approach for pandemic at G7 summit
Sources said Modi’s call for adopting a “one earth, one health” approach received support from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
They said Australia and several other countries came out in strong support of Modi’s call to waive patents on coronavirus vaccines to boost their production. India and South Africa have come out with the proposal at the World Trade Organisation.