by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Washington: The United States on Friday announced a USD 57 million aid for efforts against tuberculosis in seven high-burden countries, including India. Other countries for which the aid is being given are Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, South...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's daily new COVD-19 cases reported a sharp decline on Saturday as the country recorded 11,835 less cases as compared to Friday. Down from yesterday's 1,32,364 cases, India today reported 1,20,529 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the country's...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 5, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi/Chennai: The Indian government is yet to decide on whether to offer legal protection to local manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, Vinod Kumar Paul, a top adviser to the government, said on Friday. The Cenre is mulling to provide protection from...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi's first study on breakthrough infections during the April-May period confirmed that none of the vaccinated people died due to the Covid-19 disease. Breakthrough infection denotes whether...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Health authorities are trying to determine whether heart inflammation that can occur along with many types of infections could also be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine. An article on seven U.S. teen boys in several...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy, Regulation
New Delhi: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has capped the trade margin for oxygen concentrators at 70 per cent, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers said on Friday. "NPPA has capped the trade Margin up to 70 per cent on price to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Urban Indians are getting COVID-19 shots much faster than the hundreds of millions of people living in the countryside, government data shows, reflecting rising inequity in the nation's immunisation drive. In 114 of India's least developed districts...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Technology
The European Union and Britain have launched antitrust investigations into Facebook's use of advertising data in its classified ads business, probes which could force it to change its business model on top of hefty fines. European Competition Commissioner...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: There has been a decline in the availability of water due to an increase in human and cattle population, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday, emphasising the need to save water. In his keynote address at the curtain raiser...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 4, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Chennai:: For the first time in Tamil Nadu, a lion has died of coronavirus while nine others in the pride have tested positive for the infection at a zoo near here, an official said on Friday. ''It is for the first time that the big cats have tested...
