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Fire tragedy: FIR against trustees of Bharuch hospital

Sixteen COVID-19 patients and two trainee nurses died in the blaze in the ICU ward of the ‘Welfare Hospital’, run by a charitable trust, on May 1.

The FIR was registered against the Bombay Patel Welfare Society’s president, Khalid Patel, other trustees and key functionaries of the trust which runs the hospital, Parmar said, adding that no one has been arrested so far.

Peak will come, virus can again emerge: Govt

NITI Aayog member (health) Dr V K Paul said it is the nature of the disease that it will ultimately go to villages.

This epidemiology is well known, Paul said as he urged people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour and embrace vaccination.
So peak will come, the virus can again emerge, we know. So preparations have to be made at country level in collaboration with states, infrastructure has to be ramped up, containment measures have to be implemented and COVID appropriate behaviour has to be followed, he said.

216 cr vaccine doses to be available in 5 months between Aug-Dec, enough to cover all: Centre

Further, Biological E is expected to produce 30 crore doses, Zydus Cadila 5 crore, Serum Institute of India 20 crore doses of Novavax, and Bharat Biotech 10 crore doses of its nasal vaccine, while Gennova will make available 6 crore doses and Sputnik V 15.6 crore doses, he said. The vaccine candidates of Biological E, Zydus Cadila, Gennova, Bharat Biotech’s nasal vaccine are in various stages of clinical trials.

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India extracts more groundwater than China-US, says study 

“The country accounts for one-fourth of the total groundwater extracted globally, more than the water extracted by China and the United States combined. Severe groundwater depletion in the north and central India, already home to some of the poorest communities, further threatens their access to water,”

Low single-digit reinsurance rate hike at June1 renewal, JLT Re

David Flandro, Global Head of Analytics, JLT Re, said, “Dedicated reinsurance sector capital has been very strong with growth of over USD 10 billion during the first half of 2018, following roughly USD 7 billion of new capital raised in the final four months of 2017. This affirms the now established trend of third-party capital rapidly entering the sector post-loss to fill the gap more or less immediately.

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