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Pvt hospitals, labs welcome Delhi govt’s announcement on capping of rate of RT-PCR and RATs
Welcoming the decision Dr Bhagwan Mantri, Senior Consultant, Respiratory and Chest Medicine at Moolchand Hospital said, ”RT-PCR tests are required for everything these days – for travel purposes and for hospital admissions. Capping of prices will help people in going for tests and they will not be hesitant. It will also prevent people from going in for fake test reports that are available for Rs 200-300.”
U.S. developing plan to require foreign visitors to be vaccinated -official
The White House is not ready to immediately lift travel restrictions because of the rising COVID-19 case load, the official said.
The Biden administration has interagency working groups working “in order to have a new system ready for when we can reopen travel,” the official said, adding it includes “a phased approach that over time will mean, with limited exceptions, that foreign nationals traveling to the United States (from all countries) need to be fully vaccinated.”
Who pays for the toilet paper? The big questions of the work-from-home era
Of course, the 2 euros a day is for an average worker with average costs, but can be tweaked depending on measures such as home heating and water costs, or the quality of insulation.
It does not cover new furniture, computers, phones, or other equipment which NIBUD says employees should receive from their employers if necessary for their work.
Indian CEOs less confident about economic growth; 62% took pay cuts: KPMG Survey
The CEOs have already seen accelerated progress in digital transformation during the pandemic and are likely to prioritise investments in new technologies to become future-ready, and 89 per cent of them plan to invest more on technology, the survey noted.
Working from home can feel like sleeping at work: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella
He also said remote work misses some of the benefits of the office. “Video meetings are more transactional,” he said. “Work happens before meetings, after meetings.”
9 in 10 Indian workers seek robots to support their mental health
“There is a lot that can be done to support the mental health of the global workforce and there are so many ways that technology like AI can help. But first, organizations need to add mental health to their agenda,” said Emily He, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud HCM.
Single-day spike of 61,267 COVID-19 infections, 884 fatalities: Health Ministry
The fatality rate due to the coronavirus infection was recorded at 1.55 per cent.
According to ICMR, a total of 8,10,71,797 samples have been tested until October 5 with 10,89,403 samples being tested on Monday.
Covid-19 is changing global claims trends, risk exposures for companies and their insurers:Allianz
Going forward, many businesses are expected to review and de-risk their supply chains and build in more resilience. This could involve some reshoring of critical production areas because of disruption caused by the pandemic. Such a move would likely impact frequency of claims and the costs of any future business interruptions.
COVID-19 vaccine may be ready by year-end, says WHO’s Tedros
Nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHO’s COVAX global vaccine facility that aims to distribute 2 billion doses by the end of 2021
U.S. FDA safety guidelines likely to push COVID-19 vaccine authorization past election
The White House could still force authorization of a vaccine without that additional safety data. Doing so would put it in open disagreement with the FDA and its career scientists, and add to the perception that politics was playing a role in pushing out a vaccine.
If the agency follows its own guidelines, it is unlikely to authorize a vaccine before sometime in late November. It wants two months of data from half of a trial’s volunteers.
Airlines warn of more bankruptcies as wage support ends
Airlines consumed $51 billion in cash in the second quarter as the pandemic brought global travel to a near-standstill, the industry body said.
Whereas the withdrawal of subsidies makes sense for sectors in recovery, IATA warned of further airline bankruptcies in the northern hemisphere winter as the collapse in revenue continues to dwarf cost savings. The average carrier now has cash for 8.5 months of operations, Brian Pearce, chief economist at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), told reporters
COVID-19: 72,049 new cases take India’s virus tally to 67,57,131
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.55 per cent.
There are 9,07,883 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 13.44 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 8,22,71,654 samples have been tested up to October 6 with 11,99,857 samples being tested on Tuesday.