by AIP Online Bureau | May 15, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Ashok Khondare, a 39-year-old vegetable seller in the western Indian city of Pune, had already borrowed money to pay for his sister's treatment when she died in a private hospital two weeks after contacting COVID-19. While trying to overcome the tragedy, he...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
New Delhi A total of 191.99 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines–Covishield and Covaxin–will be supplied to states/UTs free of cost from May 16 to May 31, the Union health ministry said on Friday. The delivery schedule for the allocation will be shared...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine generates antibody responses three-and-a-half times larger in older people when a second dose is delayed to 12 weeks after the first, a British study said. The study released on Friday is the first to directly compare immune responses of...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
A free online medical consultation service launched by retired military doctors in view of a massive surge in coronavirus cases in India was on Friday extended to citizens across the country, officials said. The defence ministry roped in retired military doctors to...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Geneva: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday appealed for wealthier countries to delay vaccinating younger people against COVID-19 and instead donate doses to the COVAX global vaccine solidarity initiative. Speaking during WHO’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Geneva: More coronavirus variants are bound to be detected, a World Health Organization expert said on Friday, but now “we know what to do”. World health experts issued a grim warning Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and the theory that it was caused by a laboratory leak needs to be taken seriously until there is a rigorous data-led investigation that proves it wrong, a group of leading scientists said. Covid-19, which emerged...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The depression in the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify into a "very severe cyclonic storm" on May 17 and cross the Gujarat coast a day later, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. The weather condition has intensified...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to propose a rule requiring that public companies disclose a range of workforce data as the agency steps up environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures, its new chair, Gary Gensler, said on...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 14, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Citigroup Inc has created a unit within its energy investment bank dedicated to the clean energy transition, aiming to capture more business from the shift towards a lower carbon economy, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The entity will be headed...
