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India has received 6% above average rainfall since June 1.
The weather office defines average, or normal, rainfall as between 96% and 104% of a 50-year average of 88 cm for the entire four-month season.
Water levels in main reservoirs were at 39% of their storage capacity, against 25% at the same time last year.
Earth’s atmosphere more sensitive to CO2 emissions than thought,study finds
WASHINGTON: Hopes that the rise in average global temperatures by 2100 might be capped below 2.5C can be all but ruled out if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, new research reassessing the atmosphere’s sensitivity to CO2 suggests.The...
WHO chief says comments questioning his independence ‘untrue and unacceptable’
A WHO advance team has been in China for nearly two weeks, organising a WHO-led international mission to investigate the origins of the virus. Scientists believe it emerged in a food market in the central city of Wuhan late last year.Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO was seeing intense transmission of the coronavirus in relatively few countries.
“Two-thirds of all cases are from 10 countries. Almost half of all cases reported so far are from just three countries,” he said, referring to the United States, Brazil and India.
COVID-19:Record single-day spike of 49,310,death toll mounts to 30,601,tally at 12,87,945
Lloyd’s approves “Syndicate-in-a-Box”,to insure transport of future COVID-19 Vaccine
Syndicate 1796 has been developed by Parsyl, an insurance technology company and Lloyd’s Lab alumni, in close partnership with Ascot as managing agent, and in cooperation with AXAL XL, McGill and Partners and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The Syndicate forms the foundation of the new Global Health Risk Facility (GHRF) at Lloyd’s, which aims to provide comprehensive insurance and risk mitigation services to support the manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine development efforts. It aims to start writing business from 1 October 2020.
“Arogya Sanjeevani”policy can be offered as a group cover:IRDAI
Govt notifies new rules for e-commerce entities
According to the new rules, the e-commerce players will have to display the total price of goods and services offered for sale along with a break-up of other charges.
Under the rules, e-commerce players have to display details about return, refund, exchange, warranty and guarantee, delivery and shipment, and any other information that may be required by consumers to make informed decisions.
Domestic airfare cap to remain in place till Nov 24:Aviation Ministry
Cipla gets India approval to sell COVID-19 drug favipiravir
Scavengers in India risk health to sift coronavirus debris
Companies need immediate rethink on U.S. data transfers,says EU watchdog
About 400,000 global airline jobs lost or at risk due to virus
Job losses in related industries including aircraft manufacturers, engine makers, airports and travel agencies could reach 25 million, according to the International Air Transport Association. The hotels and lodging sector in the U.S. sees 7.5 jobs lost for every one in aviation. Airbus SE and Boeing Co. are cutting more than 30,000 positions.
WHO chief scientist sees no herd immunity to Covid-19 yet
As there are waves of this infection going through countries, people are going to develop antibodies and those people will hopefully be immune for sometime so they will also act as barriers and brakes to the spread.” Other experts have estimated that as much as 70% to 80% of the population need to have antibodies before there is any herd immunity effect.
Floods claim 10 lives in Bihar,nearly 1 million people affected in 10 districts
India has one of world’s lowest Covid infection & death rate, says Harsh Vardhan
He explained that a series of actions were initiated in a graded way that included issuing of travel advisories, point-of-entry surveillance, community-based surveillance, enhancement of laboratory and hospital surge capacities, wide dissemination of technical guidelines on managing different aspects of disease outbreak and communicating risk to the public.
WHO reports record daily increase in global coronavirus cases, up over 284,000
After US directive,DGCA tells airlines to inspect Boeing B737s in fleet
The US aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration asked the airlines to inspect their B737 aircraft that had not flown for seven days or more and the ones that had operated not more than 10 flights after return to service.
A senior DGCA official said the Indian regulator had asked Indian carriers SpiceJet, Vistara and Air India Express to inspect their B737 aircraft as directed by the FAA.
The emergency directive was “prompted by four single-engine shutdowns” that happened due to compromised air check valves in the engines of the certain B737 aircraft, said the FAA in its emergency directive.