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Munich Re sees positive environment in upcoming April and July renewal rounds
``2023 was another successful year for Munich Re. With the...
Delhi HC orders Delhi Government to provide Rs 50,000 ex-gratia compensation to families of COVID-19 victims
In a judgment, the apex court had made clear that irrespective of...
WHO classifies EG.5 as COVID-19 ‘variant of interest’
"We don't detect a change in severity of EG.5 compared to other sublineages of Omicron that have been in circulation since late 2021.Collectively, available evidence does not suggest that EG.5 has additional public health risks relative to the other currently...
Crucial to conduct post-Covid survey to assess prevalence, severity of mental health disorders: Parl panel
''The devastating impact of the Covid pandemic on mental health in India necessitates an immediate and comprehensive countrywide mental health survey,'' it said New Delhi: A post-Covid mental health survey is crucial to assess the prevalence and severity of mental...
New COVID variant EG.5.1 spreading quickly in UK: Report
"We continue to see a rise in COVID-19 cases in this week's report. We have also seen a small rise in hospital admission rates in most age groups, particularly among the elderly. Overall levels of admission still remain extremely low and we are not currently seeing a...
Govt pats IRDAI for unveiling a slew of reforms in insurance industry
(L to R) Neerja Kapur, CMD, New India Assurance, Debasish Panda, chairman, IRDAI, Vivek Joshi,secretary, Department of Financial Services at NIA's 105th foundation day celebration in Mumbai on Friday ```The government is very supportive of the amendments and changes...
Studies underway on cases of sudden cardiac arrest among youngsters after Covid: Govt
A multi-centric matched case control study on factors associated with sudden deaths among adults aged 18 to 45 in India is ongoing at around 40 hospitals/research centres.Besides, another study for establishing the cause of sudden unexplained deaths in young people...
Govt eases Covid guidelines for i’ntl travellers, drops RT-PCR requirement
The new guidelines shall come into effect from midnight of July 20 New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has further eased COVID-19 guidelines for international visitors, dropping the earlier requirement for RT-PCR based testing of a random two per cent subset of...
‘Long COVID’ may obstruct return to normal life for 36 million Europeans: WHO
Over the first three years of the global health emergency, 36 million people across the region may have experienced “long COVID”, a complex condition that scientists still know very little about, according to data from WHO’s partner, the Institute for Health Metrics...
Delta variant, a warning the COVID-19 virus is getting ‘fitter and faster’
Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus,Director-General, WHO Almost 4 million cases worldwide were reported last week to WHO and the agency expects the total number of cases to pass 200 million, in the next two weeks. "And we know this is an underestimate", underscored...
London’s Excel Centre wins insurance ruling on COVID-19 losses
Law firm Stewarts, which represented the owners of the ExCel Centre, said the ruling “could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders.” “Policyholders whose BI losses remain uncompensated should now revisit their policy documents to consider whether...
Covid kills one person every four minutes as vaccination rates fall
A key question is how to handle a virus that’s become less threatening to most but remains wildly dangerous to a slice of the population. That slice is much bigger than many realize: Covid is still a leading killer, the third-biggest in the US last year behind heart...