by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Moderna is expecting to launch a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine in India next year and is in talks with Cipla among other Indian firms, while another US giant Pfizer is ready to offer 5 crore shots in 2021 itself but it wants significant regulatory...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Geneva, Switzerland: The United States called on Tuesday for international experts to be allowed to evaluate the source of the coronavirus and the "early days of the outbreak" in a second phase of an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. U.S....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Washington: US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday that trials had shown its Covid-19 vaccine is "highly effective" in adolescents aged 12-17 and the company would seek regulators' approval in June. "We are encouraged that mRNA-1273 was highly...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Visakhapatnam: A fire broke out at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd''s oil refinery in the city on Tuesday afternoon but it was doused within hours and there were no casualties. The fire was noticed in a pipeline outside the primary unit that...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Bhubaneswar: Cyclonic storm 'Yaas' is likely to make landfall near Dhamra Port in Odisha's Bhadrak district early on Wednesday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Umashankar Das, a scientist at the Regional Meteorological...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The daily count of coronavirus cases in the country fell below the 2-lakh mark after over a month taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,69,48,874, while the death toll rose to 3,07,231, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 25, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The number of new people forced to move within their own countries by climate disasters rose to the highest in at least a decade in 2020, more than three times those displaced due to conflict and violence. People who migrated domestically due to extreme weather...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 24, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Beijing: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Board of Directors reaffirmed its commitment to environmental and social standards by approving a revised Environmental and Social Framework (ESF). The revisions will take effect in October 2021. The ESF...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 24, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Indian authorities began evacuating thousands of people from coastal areas in two states on Monday as a powerful cyclone bore down on the country's east coast, complicating efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Cyclone Yaas, the second storm to hit the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 24, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: As many as 5,424 cases of mucormycosis or black fungus have been reported from 18 states, with a majority of them in Gujarat and Maharashtra, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday. “Nine lakh vials of Amphotericin-B are being...
