“Hospitals have become a large industry now based on human distress. We cannot allow them to prosper at the cost of human lives. Let such hospitals be closed and allow the state to bolster health care facilities. Let not such hospitals operate in buildings with four rooms etc.,” said Justice Chandrachud while noting that a number of hospitals don’t adhere to fire safety norms.
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US eases travel recommendations on India as COVID-19 cases fall
Over $157 billion deployed in last 15 months to fight Covid pandemic: World Bank
”Since the start of the pandemic, the World Bank Group has committed or mobilised a record USD 157 billion in new financing, an unprecedented level of support for an unprecedented crisis,” World Bank Group President David Malpass said.
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”But we must still do more,” he said, adding that he remains deeply concerned about the limited availability of vaccines, which are critical to saving lives and livelihoods, for developing countries.
Fauci warns COVID-19 vaccine may be only partially effective, public health measures still needed
“We don’t know yet what the efficacy might be. We don’t know if it will be 50% or 60%. I’d like it to be 75% or more,” Fauci said in a webinar hosted by Brown University. “But the chances of it being 98% effective is not great, which means you must never abandon the public health approach.”
Rare syndrome linked to COVID-19 found in nearly 600 U.S. children -CDC
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) is a rare but severe condition that shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease, including fever, rashes, swollen glands and, in severe cases, heart inflammation.
It has been reported in children and adolescent patients about two to four weeks after the onset of COVID-19.With rising COVID-19 cases, there could be an increased occurrence of MIS-C, but this might not be apparent immediately because of the delay in development of symptoms, said the report’s authors, including those from the CDC’s COVID-19 response team.
UN reports sharp increase in cybercrime during pandemic
We know that terrorists are exploiting the significant disruption and economic hardships caused by COVID-19 to spread fear, hate and division and radicalise and recruit new followers, the UN counterterrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov said.
The increase in internet usage and cybercrime during the pandemic further compounds the problem.
Supply Chain risk grows as weary crews halt ships and clog ports
According to the International Chamber of Shipping, about 250,000 seafarers are stuck at sea at increasing risk of physical and mental exhaustion. This could have an impact on safety as fatigue raises the risk of human error and accidents, said Ralph Leszczynski, head of research at shipbroker Banchero Costa & Co.
IMA says nearly 200 doctors in India have succumbed to Covid-19
“As per the latest data collected by the IMA, our nation has lost 196 doctors, out of which 170 of them are above the age of 50 years, with general practitioners attributing to around 40 per cent of it,” the IMA said expressing concerns over the safety of doctors losing their lives in the fight against the Covid-19 crisis.
While an increasing number of doctors are getting infected and losing their lives every day, substantial number of them have been found to be general practitioners.
University of Washington forecasts 300,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths
“We’re seeing a rollercoaster in the United States. It appears that people are wearing masks and socially distancing more frequently as infections increase, then after a while as infections drop, people let their guard down,” Dr Christopher Murray, director of the IHME, said in announcing the university’s revised forecast.
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 stands at more than 159,000, the most of any country in the world, with nearly 4.9 million known cases
Facebook’s dilemma: How to police claims about unproven COVID-19 vaccines
Determining what constitutes a false claim regarding the COVID-19 shot is much harder than fact-checking a claim about an established vaccine with a proven safety record, Facebook fact-checkers told Reuters.
“There is a lot of content that we see and we don’t even know what to do with it,” echoed Emmanuel Vincent, founder of Science Feedback, another Facebook fact-checking partner, who said the number of vaccines in development made it difficult to debunk claims about how a shot would work.
Maggi noodles to chyawanprash:What India has been spending on in pandemic
Companies such as Dabur India Ltd. and The Himalaya Drug Co. are witnessing high demand for traditional products like chyawanprash (a cooked mixture containing honey, sugar, ghee, herbs and spices) and proprietary supplements like Septilin,which combines ayurvedic ingredients including licorice and guduchi
Sales of packaged foods have surged since March, as home-bound consumers stockpile familiar products that won’t go stale quickly. Breakfast cereals, instant noodles, rice and cooking fats are among the products experiencing the strongest growth but missed out on sales due to stock outages, according to Euromonitor.
Online retailer Flipkart says overall laptop searches have more than doubled since March, with high-performance laptops the most popular search.
ZEE5 — the homegrown rival to Netflix Inc. — reported a 33% jump in daily active users and 45% in app downloads in May
S.African regulator working to clarify companies’ rights in pandemic insurance claims
Several lawsuits have been filed by individual firms, mostly in tourism and hospitality, after they were told by insurers that their policies did not cover coronavirus lockdowns.
US lifts Covid-19 travel advisory;urges citizens not to visit India, China
India remains on the Level 4 of the travel advisory along with more than 50 countries, including China. This means that the US urged its citizens not to travel to India due to the increasing coronavirus cases.