by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
London: The new coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by August, the government's departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix told the Daily Telegraph on Friday. "Sometime in August, we will have no circulating virus in the UK", Dix...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Calls grew for India to impose a nationwide lockdown as new coronavirus cases and deaths held close to record highs on Monday, increasing pressure on the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The health ministry reported 366,161 new infections...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Facts
New Delhi: Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday said that no Jamun trees have been uprooted as part of the ongoing Central Vista Avenue redevelopment project stretching from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, and asserted that defining elements of built...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Max Bupa Health Insurance Company (Max Bupa) has settled over Rs 150 crore as Covid claims to as many as 14,500 customers so far and is closely watching the impact on policy premium, a senior company official said on Sunday. The second wave of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
New York: Some virus RNA can be reverse transcribed and inserted into the human genome, finds a new study, which may explain why some people who had already recovered from Covid-19 would sometimes inexplicably test positive on a PCR test weeks or even months later....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Health, Pandemic
Washington: A peer-reviewed research has claimed that global ivermectin use can end Covid-19 pandemic, as the medicine significantly reduces the risk of contracting the deadly respiratory disease when used regularly. The common antiparasitic ivermectin is being touted...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Washington: Getting people vaccinated is the only long-term solution to the current Covid-19 crisis in India, America's top public health expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Sunday as he called for scaling up manufacturing of coronavirus vaccines both domestically and...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Mucormycosis, a fungal infection being found in Covid-19 patients with uncontrolled diabetes and prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay, may turn fatal if uncared for, the Centre said on Sunday. In an advisory, it also said the fungal infection mainly affects people...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
New Delhi: India's largest motorbike maker, Hero MotoCorp Ltd, extended a shutdown at its manufacturing facilities across India till May 16, a day after Maruti Suzuki India Ltd announced a similar move, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Honda Cars India announced on...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a "new era of genetic weapons" that could be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then...
