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The Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational sub-group (SPI-M-O) said the emergence of new viral variants was the biggest unknown factor in the medium-to-long term, along with waning population immunity and changes in mixing patterns LONDON: There...
Global Covid caseload tops 390.5 mn, deaths surge to more than 5.72 mn
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 76,344,963 and 901,288, according to the CSSE The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (41,952,712 infections and 500,055 deaths), followed by Brazil...
News Corp says it was hacked; believed to be linked to China
News organizations are prime targets for the world's intelligence agencies because their reporters are in constant contact with sources of sensitive information. Journalists and newsrooms from Mexico and El Salvador to Qatar, where Al-Jazeera is based, have been...
Social media be made more accountable: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav ''We have to bring about a balance and consensus to make social media accountable to ensure the safety and security of our women and our future generations. For this social media rules have to be strengthened'' New...
UK competition watchdog fines Facebook’s parent company Meta for second time
"Meta failed to alert us in advance to important changes in their staff, despite knowing they were legally required to do so. This is not the first time this has happened," CMA Senior Director of Mergers Joel Bamford, said in a statement London: The UK Competition and...
SC asks states to pay Covid death compensation to families in 10 days
The top court reiterated that applications seeking compensation should not be rejected on technical grounds and if any technical glitch is found, the states concerned should give them opportunity to cure defects as the ultimate goal of the welfare state is to provide...
SBI Gen join hands with CanKids to support cancer affected children with medical facilities.
On World Cancer Day, SBI General, announced that it has joined hands with CanKids, the National Society for Change for Childhood Cancer in India, an NGO working across the entire spectrum of childhood cancer care. This partnership will help the children suffering from...
Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies can transform cancer care in India: WEF
Citing results of a study published in an American science journal, JCO Global Oncology, World Economic Forum (WEF) said cancer rates are rising rapidly across India and one in nine of the country's 1.3 billion citizens will develop the disease during their lifetime...
LIC partners with Policybazaar to distribute its products
Life Insurance Corporation on Thursday said it was roping in insurance aggregator Policybazaar.com to distribute its products. "LIC, the country’s pioneer in life insurance and Policybazaar.com have joined hands to offer a wide range of term and investment products to...
Steep rise in cancer cases in Agra, say doctors
According to health experts at government hospitals in Agra, there is a 50-60 per cent rise in the number of oral cancer patients. Tobacco, tooth powder-based on tobacco, smoking and alcohol were among the primary reasons for the disease, they said. “If we compare...
Covid-19: End of pandemic in sight for Europe, thanks to high vaccination rates – WHO
Widespread immunity from vaccines and infections, combined with the change of season, also puts Europe in a better position to fend off any resurgence in transmission WHO Europe director Hans Kluge said. Two years after the outbreak of Covid-19, Europe could soon...
Surgeons body seeks PM Modi’s intervention in App-based patient referral system
In a letter to the prime minister, AMASI President Dr Jugindra Sorokhaibam said the Executive Committee of AMASI has learnt that certain mobile apps were being utilised in the country "to direct patients to surgeons/doctors without examination, who have signed...
Slightly younger population infected more in this COVID-19 wave in India: Govt
“In vaccinated versus unvaccinated, death was 10 per cent (91 per cent co-morbidities) vs 22 per cent (83 per cent co-morbidities). So really nine out of 10 had co-morbidities in this young population who died and were vaccinated. Of the unvaccinated, 83 per cent had...
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 harder to identify, found in 5 African nations -WHO
The BA.2 sub-variant has begun to replace Omicron's more common "original" BA.1 variant in countries such as Denmark. Data from there suggests no difference in disease severity, according to another WHO official. "BA.2 … has been reported in five countries, that is...
India reports over 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, experts count millions more
"Our study published in the journal Science estimates 3 million COVID deaths in India until mid-2021 using three different databases," Chinmay Tumbe, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad who co-authored the study, told Reuters New...
Ukraine in focus for Olympics insurers as Beijing Games kick off
If there is war between Russia and Ukraine, teams and broadcasters could also suffer war-related losses themselves, as war involving the five so-called "superpowers" of the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia is often excluded from cancellation policies,...
49.48 lakh street vendors identified in India: Govt
Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that for socio-economic upliftment of street vendors, the MoHUA launched, on January 4, 2021, 'SVANidhi se Samriddhi' in 125 urban local bodies New Delhi: Around 49.48 lakh street vendors have been...
Ask AIIMS to start treatment for rare diseases: Delhi HC tells Centre
The high court was told that petitioner children are suffering from rare diseases, including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Mucopolysaccharidosis II or MPS II (Hunter Syndrome), and seek a direction to the Centre to provide them uninterrupted and free of cost...