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Aon’s $30 billion Willis deal faces EU probe – sources
Airlines warned over safety as jets return from pandemic storage
29k cold chain points, 41k deep freezers–India gets ready for COVID-19 vaccine storage
Twenty-three ministries and departments in the Centre and states have been identified and assigned roles like planning, implementation, social mobilisation, awareness generation, among others, for the vaccine roll-out, he said.
Training modules for medical officers, vaccinator officers, alternative vaccinator officers, cold chain handlers, supervisors, data managers and ASHA coordinators are also finalized, and physical training as well as training on virtual/online platforms have started, the health secretary said.
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions to write direct insurance in S. Africa
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Africa said it will underwrite some of the largest and most complex risks in South Africa across a broad spectrum of industries. With a focus on mid- and large-sized corporate customers, the company provides commercial insurance services primarily in the property, engineering & construction, energy (operational power including renewable energy & operational mining), casualty, bank trade & infrastructure, surety, and financial & professional liability lines of business.
China fines Alibaba, Tencent for failing to report past deals to anti-trust regulators
COVID-19: Daily new infections dip below 30,000 again this month
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 93,88,159 pushing the national recovery rate to 94.98 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45 per cent.
There are 3,52,586 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 3.57 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
Festive demand lifts Nov domestic passenger vehicle sales by nearly 5%: SIAM
Scientists decode how the coronavirus hijacks and damages lung cells
the scientists discovered that SARS-CoV-2 throws the lung cells into disarray, causing abnormal changes in protein amounts and frequency of protein phosphorylation inside these cells.
These abnormal changes, the scientists said, help the virus to multiply — eventually destroying the cells and resulting in widespread lung injury.
There has been absolutely no compromise in clinical testing of COVID-19 vaccines: Gangandeep Kang
Noted clinical scientist Gagandeep Kang said in India, out of pocket payments for healthcare continue to be highest in the world and it is one of many reasons why many families are driven into poverty. This kind of ”catastrophic health expenditure” actually winds up promoting further health inequities in the system, Kang said.
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries
Not much more to update yet but we’re seeing and getting word from others that multiple Google services have gone down. Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs, Maps, Adwords and Adsense, Google Pay, Google Home and Google’s Chromecast are all experiencing outages, with dozens, even hundreds, of reports we’ve seen so far coming in from across Europe, the US, Canada, India, South Africa, countries in Central and South America, Australia and likely more.
2020 was especially deadly, COVID wasn’t the only culprit
Immunotherapy drugs are riskier for treatment of cancer patients, study suggests
The researchers found that patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors had a higher risk of heart problems compared to those who were not being treated in this way. Within six months of starting treatment, patients with lung cancer on PD1 inhibitors had double the risk of heart problems; malignant melanoma patients had a 4.3-fold increased risk if they were being treated with PD1 inhibitors and a nearly five-fold risk if they were receiving the CTLA-4 inhibitor.
India’s population is stabilising as total fertility rate declines across states
Of the 17 states analysed in the NFHS-5 data, except for Bihar, Manipur and Meghalaya, all other states have a TFR of 2.1 or less, which implies that most states have attained replacement level fertility.The first set of findings from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), conducted in 2019-20 were released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India on Saturday, December 12th, four years after the last survey (NFHS-4, 2015-16).
Global litigation financiers plan India entry to target company disputes
The concept of litigation finance is widely prevalent in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States where such financiers pay legal fees and other costs of commercial lawsuits, arbitration or shareholder disputes and in return get a share of the award from a settlement or a win.
Some of the world’s top litigation financiers like Australia’s Omni Bridgeway and a unit of U.S. insurance broker Marsh Inc plan to tap the Indian market by funding the legal costs of disputes that embroil companies, executives told Reuters.
SoftBank-backed India’s Ola to invest $326 million in electric-scooter plant
The Indian government has been pushing automakers to move to cleaner fuel technology, especially electric, in an effort to reduce its oil import bill and curb pollution in major cities.
While carmakers have been slow to launch electric vehicles (EVs), mainly due to the high cost of batteries and weak demand from buyers, sales of electric scooters and rickshaws have picked up pace and are leading India’s electrification drive.
The country needs an investment of over $180 billion in vehicle production and charging infrastructure until 2030 to meet its EV ambition, according to the CEEW Centre for Energy Finance (CEEW-CEF), an Asian think tank.
Apple supplier Wistron puts India plant damage at up to $7 million after workers go on rampage
Aviva to sell Vietnamese business to Canada’s ManuLife
Aviva, under new boss Amanda Blanc, is looking to sell its businesses in continental Europe and Asia, to focus on Britain, Ireland and Canada, after years of share price underperformance in the life and general insurer irked investors.
Asia has emerged as a battleground for foreign insurers who are attracted by the region’s lower insurance penetration levels and faster growth rates for life insurance premiums than in their home markets.