by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic can have severe effects on children's mental and physical health, said Dr Praveen Kumar, Director, Department of Paediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College. "Pandemic can have a severe effect on children's mental...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: As the country reported the first confirmed case of human death due to avian influenza, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria on Wednesday said that human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus is very rare and there is no need to panic. However, there is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 21, 2021 | International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Around 100,000 people have been relocated from a central Chinese city known as the world’s biggest production base for iPhones, after record daily rainfall led to widespread flooding and the death of at least 12 people. The city of Zhengzhou in the central...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Life expectancy in the United States dropped the most in more than seven decades last year as Covid-19 sent hundreds of thousands of Americans to early deaths. The pandemic's disproportionate toll on communities of color also widened existing gaps in life...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi; India reported its highest death toll in a month on Wednesday – at nearly 4,000 – after its richest state reconciled its death count with 3,509 previously unreported fatalities, the health ministry said. Maharashtra, home to the financial...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Till July 17, a total of 48.68 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines were manufactured in the country, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on the steps taken by the government to increase production...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: A total of 45,432 cases of mucormycosis have been reported by states and UTs till July 15 of which 21,085 affected people are receiving treatment and 4,252 have died, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. A large majority of mucormycosis patients...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Four COVID-19 vaccine candidates are at different stages of human trials while one, developed by Genique Life Sciences, is in the advanced pre-clinical stage, Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. In a written response...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
Aizawl: Mizoram on Tuesday reported the highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases as 807 people tested positive, taking the tally to 28,295, a Health Department official said. More than 150 children were among the newly-infected people, he said. The state also...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: The steep corporate tax cut in 2019 and pandemic-driven cost-cutting boosted the bottomline of India Inc by 105 per cent in FY21 over FY20, even though the topline declined 5 per cent, according to a report. This also had 4,000 listed companies paying...
