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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarEtihad to provide Covid-19 insurance to passengers,cover medical and quarantine costs
Airlines around the world are trying to find ways to stimulate demand that has been shattered by the pandemic and expected to take years to recover.Medical costs of up to 150,000 euros ($177,000) and quarantine costs of up to 100 euro a day for 14 days will be covered by Etihad for its passengers who contract the disease within 31 days of first travel.
Munich Re expects Beirut losses of €100 million; sees slowdown in COVID-19 losses
US, European Covid-19 vaccine developers pledge to uphold testing rigour
According to the statement, the nine companies pledge to follow established guidance from expert regulatory authorities such as the FDA.
Among other hurdles, approval must be based on large, diverse clinical trials with comparative groups that do not receive the vaccine in question. Participants and those working on the trial must not know which group they belong to, according to the pledge.
India’s COVID-19 infection tally crosses 42 lakh
1,016 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.70 per cent.
There are 8,82,542 active cases of the infection in the country which comprises 20.99 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 4,95,51,507 samples have been tested up to September 6 with 7,20,362 samples being tested on Sunday.
Delhi Metro resumes services with strict safety measures after 169-day COVID hiatus
Kolkata doctors provide free online consultation to patients of generic ailments
“Due to COVID-19, we are reluctant to visit doctors for generic illnesses & through this initiative, citizens can get hassle-free consultation by the city’s best doctors from safety of their homes via video call https://t.co/DUiH8XmaJE.
Visit our website https://t.co/yafzENa4ai to book your appointment now,” KMC Mayor and Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim said
Govt releases draft guidelines for ads; disclaimers must be clearly visible
The draft guidelines also specify that an advertisement should not describe a product or service as “free”, “without charge” or other similar terms, if the consumer has to pay anything other than the cost while purchasing a product or service for delivery of the same.
On those who endorse advertisements, the guidelines propose that they should take due care to ensure that all descriptions, claims and comparisons that they endorse or that are made in advertisements they appear in are capable of being objectively ascertained and are capable of substantiation.
90% of China’s Sinovac staff, families took coronavirus vaccine, says CEO
Country”s biggest COVID Care Centre to be shut from Sep 15
SC asks Centre why no ban on disinfectant tunnels despite saying chemicals harmfuL
In the meeting it was recommended, “spraying of disinfectants on humans is not recommended under any circumstances. Spraying any chemical disinfectant is physically and psychologically harmful. Further, chemicals are harmful to human skin and the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, if needed”, it said.
External spraying of any chemical disinfectant does not kill a virus that has already entered the body of a person, who has earlier been exposed to the virus, the Centre said.
At 96.2%,Kerala tops literacy rate chart; Andhra Pradesh worst performer at 66.4%
The study has pegged the overall literacy rate in the country at about 77.7 per cent. In rural areas, the literacy rate is 73.5 per cent compared to 87.7 per cent in urban areas of the country.
At all-India level, the male literacy rate is higher at 84.7 per cent compared to 70.3 per cent among women.
The survey showed that the male literacy rate is higher than female literacy rate among all states. In Kerala, the male literacy rate is 97.4 per cent compared to 95.2 per cent among females.
“Pandemics,climate change,cyber top the current risk chart”:Munich Re
The coronavirus pandemic needs to be a lesson to us all: We must take action more rapidly and vigorously to ensure that we are not as unprepared as we were with COVID-19 for risks such as cyber attacks or climate change. It is possible to better safeguard against the financial consequences of such risks for the benefit of humanity. It needs to be clear that systemic risks like pandemics also require systemic countermeasures – for instance, the creation of state-backed risk pools to make uninsurable risks bearable,said Torsten Jeworrek,Member of the Board of Munich Re.
As India’s Covid-19 cases rise, docs ‘scared like the patients, exhausted’
Fall in GDP alarming; time for bureaucracy to take meaningful action: Rajan
“The sharp decline in economic growth should alarm us all. The 23.9 per cent contraction in India (and the numbers will probably be worse when we get estimates of the damage in the informal sector) compares with a drop of 12.4 per cent in Italy and 9.5 per cent in the United States, two of the most COVID-19-affected advanced countries,”Rajan wrote in a post on his LinkedIn page.