by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Zeynep Tufekci If world leaders don’t act now, the end of the Covid pandemic may come with a horrible form of herd immunity, as more transmissible variants that are taking hold around the world kill millions. There’s troubling new evidence...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
As offices set to reopen after the pandemic and vaccination drive, only 30 per cent of companies in the US and Europe will embrace a full return-to-office model, according to a new report. While many business leaders are drawn to vaccine passports as a solution to...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Chennai: Carmakers in the Indian automobile hub of Chennai will be allowed to keep operating, the state government said on Saturday, amid protests by workers who fear catching COVID-19 in one of the country’s hardest-hit states. Tamil Nadu’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Mumbai: India’s Mahindra & Mahindra expects it will take at least another two years for car sales to return to their pre-pandemic peaks, but a slow pace of vaccinations could hurt recovery prospects, its chief told Reuters in an interview. Battered by...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India on Sunday reported its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections in 46 days at 165,553 cases during the previous 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,460. The South Asian nation’s tally of infections now stands at 27.9 million, with the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
London: The British government is thinking about making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for healthcare workers to stop the spread of the virus in hospitals, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday. "It would be incumbent on any responsible government to...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Antibody drugs and COVID-19 vaccines are less effective against a coronavirus variant that was first detected in India, according to researchers. The variant, known as B.1.617.2, has mutations that make it more transmissible. It is now predominant in some parts...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Amid calls for a fresh probe into the origins of Covid-19, an explosive new study has found that Chinese scientists created the virus in a lab in Wuhan, then tried to cover their tracks by reverse-engineering versions of the virus to make it look like it...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
The Rishiganga glacier in Chamoli district is not yet in critical condition the Uttarakhand Director General of Police (DGP) Ashok Kumar said on Sunday. "Rishiganga does not have serious normal landscape formations. A team of scientists conducted an aerial...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 30, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The arrival of monsoon over Kerala is likely to delayed by two days and it is now expected to make an onset over the state by June 3, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. IMD Director General M Mohapatra said there is cyclonic...
