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According to the data released by Maharashtra Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) on Friday, the number of active cases in Mumbai was 24,307, while 67,830 patients have recovered from the infection so far.
The Covid-19 recovery rate in Mumbai stood at 50 per cent around mid-June, when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched “Mission Zero” under the Rapid Action Plan to contain coronavirus transmission.
Covid-19 community spread has started, cases in rural areas a bad sign:IMA
While speaking to ANI, Dr V K Monga, the Chairman of IMA Hospital Board of India, said: “This is now an exponential growth. Every day the number of cases is increasing by more than around 30,000. This is really a bad situation for the country. There are so many factors connected with it but overall this is now spreading to rural areas. This is a bad sign. It now shows a community spread.”
Insurers favor warehouse investments over offices as pandemic hastens real estate shifts
India lifted 271 mn people out of poverty between FY06-16, says UN report
Covid-19 is the latest crisis to hit the globe, and climate change all but guarantees more will follow soon. Each will affect the poor in multiple ways. More than ever, we need to work on tackling poverty and vulnerability to poverty – in all its forms,” Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP Pedro Coneico said.
ICICI Lombard’s net profit rises by 28.5% to Rs398 crore in Apr-Jun Qtr,combined ratio at 99.7%
The capital gains of the company was lower by 56.1 per cent y-o-y at Rs 60 crore in Q1 FY2021 compared to Rs 138 crore in Q1 FY2020.
A multiple factors like lower claims in other segments like motor and health(non-Covid -19 category) fire and crop have helped the company to record a favourable combined ratio and profitability during the June quarter, said analysts.
Consumer goods demand is back to near pre-covid level: Nielsen
According to Nielsen, both urban and rural sales are growing but the recovery/sales from the undeveloped semi-urban/rural quarters are much faster and traditional trade channels as neighbourhood and Kirana stores have scored over modern trade outlets as retail outlets and hypermarkets.
Compared with other global markets such as China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, the industry in India has witnessed a dela
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Covid-19 claims from govt authorised make-shift hospitals payble by insurers:IRDAI
In order to ensure that the costs of treatment of COVID – 19 are covered as per the terms and conditions of policy contract, a make-shift or temporary hospital permitted by Central / State government will be also regarded as a hospital or network provider and insurers have to settle the claims, said IRDAI on Thursday.
Russia trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, say UK, U.S. and Canada
British foreign minister Dominic Raab said it was “completely unacceptable” for Russian intelligence services to target work on the pandemic.
However,the Kremlin rejected Western allegations Russia had tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, Russian news agencies reported.
TASS cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Russia had nothing to do any alleged hacker attacks on pharmaceutical companies and research institutes in Britain.
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Floods ravage eastern India as coronavirus infections surge
Novartis to provide ‘no profit’ COVID-19 drugs to low income countries
“We shouldn’t underestimate the stress that COVID puts particularly on fragile health systems,” Hegemann said, adding Novartis hoped to work with health authorities, faith-based organisations and NGOs to eliminate big mark-ups. “We are not targeting classical commercial distribution channels, but very direct channels.”
International flights to US,France begins tomorrow; Germany and UK to follow soon:MinisterPuri
Capital infusion in 3 state-owned insurers ‘credit positive’,says Moody’s
“After the capital injection we expect renewed focus on improving the insurers’ risk management and profitability. We expect the insurers to enhance their risk-based pricing and underwriting discipline to ensure organic capital growth and attract foreign reinsurance coverage, which will further aid capital adequacy,” Moody’s said.
Swiss Re and PGGM enter into second private sidecar transaction
The transaction is a further milestone for Swiss Re’s Alternative Capital Partners team, which was formed in 2019 to manage Swiss Re’s third-party capital activities. Alternative Capital Partners enables Swiss Re to grow its natural catastrophe book and proactively manage its risk appetite by making use of a broad range of third-party capital and retrocession instruments.
Skin whitening creams remain online despite mercury findings
Many countries ban or restrict mercury in creams, which can damage the kidneys, brain and nervous system. An international ban on manufacturing products with mercury in them comes into effect at end-2020.
The Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG), an international coalition of non-governmental organizations, issued a report last November that found unacceptable levels of mercury in 95 skin-lightening creams out of 158 samples tested.