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“Maharashtra is at the beginning of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts are limited there with no adherence to COVID-19 appropriate behaviour among people both in rural and urban areas,” Bhushan wrote in the letter.
Pointing towards contact tracing, the Health Secretary’s letter mentioned that the case-contact ratio is more than 1:20 in the state.
22 of world’s 30 most polluted cities are in India: Report
Besides Delhi, the 21 other Indian cities among the 30 most polluted cities in the world are Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Bisrakh Jalalpur, Noida, Greater Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Agra, and Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, Bhiwari in Rajasthan, Faridabad, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad, Bandhwari, Gurugram, Yamuna Nagar, Rohtak and Dharuhera in Haryana, and Muzaffarpur in Bihar.
IRDAI modifies norms to check arbitrary rise of health premiums by insurers
The IRDAi has said the appointed actuary of an insurance company should review the financial viability of every health insurance product at the end of every financial year and the report of such review should be submitted to their board along with the analysis of favorable or unfavorable experience of each product as well as recommended corrective action, to ensure sustainability of the product and to protect the interests of policyholders of the underlying product.
SBI, ICICI, HDFC, Axis Bank, PNB and the Indian IT department targeted in phishing scam
Automating day-to-day transaction processing among priorities for finance leaders: Survey
Men at higher risk of death than for women, chain smoking and heart disease primary reason
Renewal of registration for 15-yr old govt vehicles to stop from Apr 1, 2022: Draft notification
India records 26,291 new cases, highest single-day rise in 85 days
Funding from family philanthropy in India triples to Rs 12,000 cr in FY20: Report
Jal Shakti Minsitry launches famework for water quality testing, monitoring
According to a 2018 assessment by the Central Ground Water Board, 52 percent of all the blocks in the country have inter alia any one of the geogenic contaminants like arsenic, chloride, fluoride, iron, nitrate, and salinity. Nearly 20 states in India have drinking water sources contaminated with arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, iron, salinity, or heavy metals.
British Airways calls for vaccinated people to travel without restrictions
He wants government to give its backing to health apps that can be used to verify a person’s negative COVID-19 test results and vaccination status. Apps will be key to facilitating travel at scale, the industry has said. Airline staff checking paperwork takes 20 minutes per passenger and is not practical if large numbers of passengers return.
Govt to take care of job loss, other facilities in strategic divestment: Thakur
Rs 2,000 notes not printed in last 2 years: Govt in Lok Sabha
The move is seen as an attempt to prevent hoarding of the high-value currency and thus, curb black money.
The Rs 2,000 notes were introduced in November 2016, soon after the government withdrew Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in an attempt to curb black money and fake currencies.
While a new Rs 500 note was printed, Rs 1,000 currency notes were discontinued. Instead, Rs 2,000 note was introduced.
No lockdown but restrictions to be made stricter: Maha health minister
Bank strike: Cheques worth Rs 16,500 crore stuck
Regular booster vaccines are the future in battle with COVID-19 virus, top genome expert says
“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” Peacock told Reuters at the non-profit Wellcome Sanger Institute’s 55-acre campus outside Cambridge.
“We already are tweaking the vaccines to deal with what the virus is doing in terms of evolution – so there are variants arising that have a combination of increased transmissibility and an ability to partially evade our immune response,” she said.
Facebook finds social media users responsible for spreading vaccine doubt
“Public health experts have made it clear that tackling vaccine hesitancy is a top priority in the COVID response, which is why we’ve launched a global campaign that has already connected 2 billion people to reliable information from health experts and remove false claims about COVID and vaccines. This ongoing work will help to inform our efforts,” Facebook representative Dani Lever said.
Climate finance still not on table for developing countries: Javadekar
To a query on progress made under the Paris agreement, the minister said besides renewable energy targets, 35 per cent reduction in emission was one of the targets under the Paris pact. ”So far, we have achieved 26 per cent. We will be over achieving our targets. Along with the government, corporates have taken steps to reduce carbon emission,” he added. Responding to another query on any plans to review CAMPA (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority) funds guidelines to ensure it is not used for other than activities for afforestation, the minister said a directive has been issued to states to use 80 per cent funds for afforestation and water/fodder augmentation alone.