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New Covid-19 cases in India have peaked, shows Cambridge tracker

Health services remain overwhelmed and several hospitals face shortage in oxygen supplies. The nation has reported more than 300,000 new infections for more than 20 straight days and the official tally of daily deaths has topped 4,000. The numbers are probably vastly undercounted, experts say.

Maharashtra: 2 die of mucormycosis in Thane, 6 hospitalised

According to health experts, the symptoms of mucormycosis include headache, fever, pain under the eyes, nasal or sinus congestion and partial loss of vision.

On Tuesday, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said there could be over 2,000 mucormycosis patients in the state as of now and with more and more COVID-19 cases coming up, ”their number would increase for sure”.

The state government has decided to use hospitals attached to medical colleges as treatment centres for mucormycosis, he had said.

IRDAI imposes Rs 30 lakh penalty on SBI General Insurance

SBI General Insurance Company had underwritten Rs 316.36 crore as against the minimum obligatory MTP insurance business of Rs 638.34 crore resulting in a shortfall of Rs 321.98 crore. In percentage terms, the shortfall worked out to be around 50.44 per cent of MTP insurance obligation.

Medi Assist Healthcare Services files IPO papers with Sebi

Those selling shares in the offer for sale include Dr Vikram Jit Singh Chhatwal, Medimatter Health Management, Bessemer India Capital Holdings II Ltd, Bessemer Health Capital LLC and Investcorp Private Equity Fund I.

As per the draft papers, the company managed Rs 7,829.5 crore of health insurance premiums for the financial year 2020.

For the nine month ended December 2020, the company reported a total income of Rs 257.44 crore against Rs 245.16 crore a year ago. Its profit after tax was at Rs 33.09 crore for the nine months ended December 2020 as compared to Rs 31.04 crore in the same period last year.

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Stronger insurance rules to protect victims of motor vehicle accidents in EU

Today’s proposal will ensure that victims of motor vehicle accidents receive the full compensation they are due, even when the insurer is insolvent.The revamped rules will also ensure that those who have a previous claims history in another EU Member State are treated equally to domestic policyholders, and potentially benefit from better insurance conditions.

India 145th among 195 countries in healthcare access, quality

The five countries with the highest levels of healthcare access and quality in 2016 were Iceland (97.1 points), Norway (96.6), the Netherlands (96.1), Luxembourg (96.0), and Finland and Australia (each with 95.9).The countries with the lowest scores were the Central African Republic (18.6), Somalia (19.0), Guinea-Bissau (23.4), Chad (25.4), and Afghanistan (25.9)

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