by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Locking down India for 21 days may slow the spread of the new coronavirus, but it's quickening the misery of the hundreds of millions of people who work in the country's informal economy. By some accounts, these workers make up nearly 90% of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
The Indian government has unveiled an app called Aarogya Setu designed to alert users if they have come in close proximity with any Covid-19 positive patient. The app tracks through a Bluetooth and location-generated social graph. It calculates the user's...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The World Bank on Thursday approved $1-billion emergency financing for India to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed 76 lives and infected 2,500 others in the country. The World Bank's first set of aid projects, amounting to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Mumbai: The unprecedented nationwide lockdown that shut businesses, suspended flights and stopped all modes of transport will cost the Indian economy almost USD 4.64 billion every day and the entire 21-day lockdown will result in a GDP loss of almost USD 98 billion,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 2, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy, according to a Reuters tally of official data.Italy had the most deaths,...
