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“My biggest worry is that there are countries today who do not have the systems in place to detect people who have contracted with the virus, even if it were to emerge,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
“Urgent support is needed to bolster weak health systems to detect, diagnose and care for people with the virus, to prevent further human to human transmission and protect health workers.”
Female genital mutilation exacts a crippling economic & human cost:WHO
“High healthcare costs for countries mount because of the tragic personal impacts on women and girls. Governments have a moral responsibility to help end this harmful practice,” says Dr Prosper Tumusiime, Acting Director for Universal Health Coverage and the Life Course in the African Regional Office of WHO. “FGM hurts girls, imposes lifelong health risks on the women they become, and strains the healthcare systems that need to treat them.”
Merger process major challenge for PSBs in near future: SBI Chairman
China’s Coronavirus deaths, infections rise; supply chains, production,travel disrupted
Nissan Autonomous Car completes 230-mile journey in Britain
AXA XL creates role of Global Chief Underwriting Officer, Cyber
Britain’s insurance sector urged to compete by selectively diverging from EU Rules
Aim to manufacture, sell 1 mn ‘green vehicles’ over next few years: Maruti
China virus toll nears 500,to affect Chinese insurers’ earnings
While the claim expenses associated with the outbreak remain uncertain, medical costs for future treatments may burden insurers. As of 3 February 2020, the Ministry of Finance and local governments have planned to allocate total funding of CNY47bn ($6.7bn) to assume responsibility of medical-related costs.
US working closely with China to combat coronavirus outbreak: Trump
Coronavirus impact: Surat diamond hub stares at Rs 8,000 crore loss
Surat: The Surat diamond industry is likely to face a loss of around Rs 8,000 crore in next two months as Hong Kong, which is a major export destination, has declared a state of emergency due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, say experts. Hong Kong...
Cabinet okays changes to bank laws to avoid repeat of PMC Bank-like crises
Released Rs 3,520 cr in last two years to states under AB-PMJAY:Health Minister
“Two big states (Punjab & Rajasthan) have joined AB-PMJAY only in late 2019. Large states (UP, MP and Bihar) which account for 30 per cent of the beneficiary population are implementing the scheme for the first time and hence, their demand is still picking up,” he said, explaining the reasons for the slow utilization of funds.
Few states debar 4 insurers from PMFBY due to complaints: Govt
The Centre on Tuesday told Parliament that some state governments like Rajasthan, Karnataka and Gujarat have debarred four insurance firms — SBI General Insurance, Tata AIG, Shriram General Insurance and UIIC — from participating in tender of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojana (PMFBY) for one or more seasons. Some state governments have also slapped interest penalty on the Agriculture Insurance Company of India (AIC Ltd),Cholamandalam-MS General Insurance Company, ICICI-Lombard General Insurance Company, New India Assurance Company and SBI General Insurance Company, it said in the Lok Sabha.
3 PSU general insurers to get merged by March-end: Finance Secretary
Nations stepping up scrutiny of vessels, trains, shipping from China
Over 30 crore PANs linked with Aadhaar so far, says Anurag Thakur
Twitter says state-backed actors may have accessed users’ phone numbers
Tech publication TechCrunch reported https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/twitter-android-bug-phone-numbers on Dec. 24 that a security researcher, Ibrahim Balic, had managed to match 17 million phone numbers to specific Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in the contacts feature of its Android app. TechCrunch said it was able to identify a senior Israeli politician by matching a phone number through the tool.