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International community launches a $675 mn preparedness and response plan to fight coronavirus

“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.”

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.

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.