by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 12, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Soumya Swaminathan,chief scientist,World Health Organization, “Our expectation is that the acute phase of this pandemic will end this year, of course with one condition, the 70 percent vaccination (target is achieved) by mid this year around June, July,”...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 9, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Pandemic, Policy, Workplace/Employee Benefits
From Iceland to Australia, governments and business are testing shorter work weeks, be it in fashion or fast food. With dozens of companies set to take part in Britain’s biggest ever trial of a four-day week, joining similar pilots in five other countries, Smith...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
Widespread immunity from vaccines and infections, combined with the change of season, also puts Europe in a better position to fend off any resurgence in transmission WHO Europe director Hans Kluge said. Two years after the outbreak of Covid-19, Europe could soon...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 22, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic, Technology
“What we think is very interesting is that Omicron, because of its very high infectiousness, very low morbidity compared to previous waves such as the Delta variant, might actually be the first tangible sign that the pandemic is evolving in the direction that we...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Wealth Management/ Philanthropy
More than 4.6 crore Indians, meanwhile, are estimated to have fallen into extreme poverty in 2020 (nearly half of the global new poor according to the United Nations Moreover, the pandemic set gender parity back from 99 years to now 135 years. Women collectively lost...