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EU climate deal unlikely without breakthrough on budget, envoy says

The climate and budget issues are interlinked.The EU has agreed that hundreds of billions of euros from its 1.8-billion-euro budget and attached COVID-19 recovery fund will be spent on helping countries cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The European Commission wants the EU to commit to cut net emissions at least 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels. The bloc’s current 2030 target is a 40% emissions cut.

A year into COVID-19, U.N. declares a day of ‘epidemic preparednes

The COVID-19 virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year and spread globally, so far infecting more than 66 million people and killing some 1.5 million. The World Health Organization (WHO) called it a pandemic in March, a declaration that the United States and others said came too late.
“Given that the General Assembly has previously declared international days devoted to chess, yoga and toilets it only seems fair that epidemics should have their day too,” said International Crisis Group U.N. director Richard Gowan.

Personal accident and health insurance in Asia-Pacific to reach $240.1bn in 2023:GlobalData

Varma concludes: “Personal accident and health insurance insurance is expected to see major developments as short-term accident covers, critical illness, disease-specific products become more mainstream. Furthermore, technology savvy middle class emerging markets and aging population in mature markets will support the business growth over the next few years.”

1st dynamic Covid surveillance system rolls out in 195 nations

“We can inform leaders where the outbreak is occurring before it shows up in overcrowded hospitals and morgues,” said Lori Post from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. said.
“Current systems are static and ours is dynamic.”

Northwestern is hosting a dashboard for the new Covid tracking system — open to anyone — with the new metrics as well as traditional metrics.

Each country’s dashboard will be monitored to inform policy leaders around the globe. Users will have metrics of the whole world at their fingertips.

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