by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
PARIS: France is working on a new mechanism for pandemics insurance cover that could entail some state backing, and is exploring funding options to have a scheme in place ahead of another potential coronavirus lockdown, Axa’s Chief Risk Officer...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
BENGALURU: Shares of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd rose almost 9% on Thursday after the Indian drugmaker got an approval to conduct clinical trials with antiviral drug favipiravir, seen as a potential treatment for COVID-19. Favipiravir, manufactured...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Geneva: Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
NEW YORK : The city of New York delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles, a Reuters eyewitness said. The eyewitness saw bodies in a U-Haul van and said two...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
CHICAGO: Concerns over leaks compelled the top U.S. infectious disease official to reveal data on Gilead Sciences Inc’s (GILD.O) experimental drug remdesivir, the first in a scientifically rigorous clincial trial to show benefit in treating COVID-19. The...
