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India bars virus vaccine maker from exporting

The company also has been barred from selling the vaccine on the private market.

As a result, Adar Poonawalla, Serum Institute’s  CEO said, the export of vaccines for COVAX — the ambitious initiative created to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines set up by the World Health Organization, vaccines alliance GAVI and CEPI, a global coalition to fight epidemics — won’t begin until March or April.

5% obligatory cession for GIC Re in general insurance business to continue in 2021-22:IRDA 

Percentage of commission on obligatory cession for different classes of business will  be as follows:
i) Minimum 5% for Motor TP and Oil & Energy insurance.ii) Minimum 10% for Group Health insurance iii) Minimum 7.50% for Crop Insurance.iv) Average Terms for Aviation insurance.
v) Minimum 15% for all other classes of insurance business.

Wildlife, land-use change and health infra: Scientists identify ways of preventing next pandemic

Following several multidisciplinary studies in 2020, scientists now firmly believe a “perfect storm” for an outbreak with pandemic potential is created by the combined forces of land-use change, high population density and the presence of interfaces between wildlife and domestic animals.

Germany mulls delaying second COVID-19 vaccine shot, Denmark approves delay

Some German health experts have welcomed Britain’s move to delay administering a second dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer shot, which comes as governments try to provide protection against coronavirus to as many people as possible by giving them one shot and delaying a second.

However, BioNTech and Pfizer pointed in a joint statement to a lack of trial data to support delaying the second dose.

India logs 18,177 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, tally at 1.03 crore

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-hit state till date. Over 70 per cent of the daily new cases are being reported by 10 states and union territory — Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Chattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Five States — Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh contribute 62 per cent of the total active cases.

Aviation deaths rise worldwide in 2020 even as fatal incidents, flights fall

Large commercial airplanes had 0.27 fatal accidents per million flights in 2020, To70 said, or one fatal crash every 3.7 million flights — up from 0.18 fatal accidents per million flights in 2019.

The decline in crashes came amid a sharp decline in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic. Flightradar24 reported commercial flights it tracked worldwide in 2020 fell 42% to 24.4 million.

More than half of all deaths in the To70 review were the 176 people killed in January 2020 when a Ukrainian plane was shot down in Iranian airspace.