by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
UN: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major backsliding in childhood vaccinations, with 23 million children worldwide missing out on routine immunizations last year, two UN agencies reported on Wednesday. This is the highest number since 2009, and nearly four...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management, Technology
New York: Google searches related to infertility and coronavirus vaccines increased by 34,900 per cent after two physicians submitted a petition to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) questioning the safety and efficacy data of the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine. While the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Hospitals are likely to witness revenue growth of around 20-22 per cent in FY2022 along with strong profitability, ratings agency ICRA said in a report on Tuesday. The first wave of Covid-19 had hit the hospitals hard, with almost all hospitals reporting...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life
Paris: Alcohol consumption was linked to 4 percent of all new global cancer cases last year, according to a study published Wednesday, as researchers warned of an urgent need to alert people of the risks. Men accounted for more than three quarters of the estimated...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: India was the single largest source of government requests for account information that Twitter received during the July-December 2020 period, accounting for 25 per cent of the global volume, the microblogging platform said on Wednesday. This is the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: The risks are real and rising because the pace of vaccination has slowed down to under 3.4 million doses daily from 4 million earlier and also as many as 45% of the daily infections are being reported from rural areas, points Tanvee Gupta-Jain, the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
A record number of Americans died of drug overdoses last year as pandemic lockdowns made getting treatment difficult and dealers laced more drugs with a powerful synthetic opioid, according to data released on Wednesday and health officials. U.S. deaths from...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Indian News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management, Technology
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday indefinitely barred Mastercard Inc (MA.N) from issuing new debit or credit cards to domestic customers for violating data storage rules, dealing a blow to the U.S. company in a key market. In a notification,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Health, Indian News
Ranchi: Centre is concerned over safety of people living in the coal bearing areas of Jharia and Raniganj and new technologies are required to douse fire there, a top official said on Wednesday. To avoid any natural mishaps at Jharia and Raniganj coalfields in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Storms caused heavy flooding across parts of western and central Europe overnight, and a man swept away by a raging stream in eastern Germany remained missing Wednesday. Firefighters resumed their search for the man in the Saxony state town of Joehstadt on Wednesday...
