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Outbreak at Chinese-owned factory shows challenges of easing India’s lockdown
Experts, including those directly advising the government, say that coronavirus cases will rise in coming weeks as India’s lockdown is eased, and authorities have repeatedly told companies resuming operations to ensure that social distancing and other measures are taken to prevent infections.
New Zealand to roll out ‘digital diary’ app to help people track movements
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the app can be best described as a ‘digital diary’ helping people to record their personal movements, adding the data would not be shared to anyone else besides the user.
Covid-19 Pandemic: UK’s Airmic calls for change in approach to insurers’ pandemic response
Greater collaboration and communication between businesses, insurers and brokers to allow innovation and opportunity to emerge from the crisis.
Looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, Airmic supports the creation of national catastrophic pooling and reinsurance mechanisms, such as the existing UK pools for terrorism and flood. They must, however, be embedded in broader national and international risk strategies and should themselves be pooled to ensure the efficient use of capital, the association continued.
Twitter to let some employees to work from home permanently
Tech giants like Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google have allowed most of their employees to work remotely until the end of this year.
Aon sets up MGA with world’s largest capacity for Intellectual Property Liability Risks
It is the latest offering from Aon to meet the changing needs of clients’ intellectual property (IP) exposures, especially in this distressed economic environment.Target markets include businesses of all sizes from SMEs to multi-national corporations in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia
-Primary limit of indemnity of up to $100 million (€100 million)
Iran-linked hackers recently targeted coronavirus drugmaker Gilead
Britain and the United States warned this week that state-backed hackers are attacking pharmaceutical companies and research institutions working on treatments for the new disease.
NDMA issues guidelines for restarting industrial activities to avoid Vizag-type tragedy
In a communication to all states and union territories, the NDMA said due to several weeks of lockdown and the closure of industrial units, it is possible that some of the operators might not have followed the established standard operating procedures.To minimise the risk, it is important that employees who work on specific equipment are sensitised and made aware of the need to identify abnormalities like strange sounds or smell, exposed wires, vibrations, leaks, smoke, abnormal wobbling, irregular grinding or other potentially hazardous signs which indicate the need for immediate maintenance or if required shutdown, it said.
Medics grapple with mental trauma on COVID-19 front line
“Burnout, anxiety, depression, or irritability or moral injury, those can easily happen to anyone when you’re exposed to these kinds of circumstances for an extended period of time,” said Major Olli Toukolehto, a psychiatrist at the U.S. military’s 531st Hospital Center who has been deployed to New York.
Psychiatrists at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City predict between 25%-40% of frontline healthcare workers and first responders in the United States may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of their involvement in the outbreak.
Gas leak at LG Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh kills six, over 120 hospitalised
The commissioner of the Visakhapatnam city corporation said styrene leaked from the plant during the early hours of the morning, when families in the surrounding villages were asleep.
“Hundreds of people have inhaled it and either fell unconscious or having breathing issues,” Srijana Gummalla, Commissioner, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation said on Twitter.
Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China: officials
“We’ve been working on [reducing the reliance of our supply chains in China] over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative,” Keith Krach, undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department told Reuters.
The pandemic has highlighted China’s key role in the supply chain for generic drugs here that account for the majority of prescriptions in the United States. It has also shown China’s dominance in goods like here the thermal cameras needed to test workers for fevers, and its importance in food supplies.