by AIP Online Bureau | May 7, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Julie Bosman and Sarah Mervosh After weeks of coronavirus patients flooding emergency rooms in Michigan, the worst COVID-19 hot spot in the nation, hospitalizations are finally falling. On some recent days, entire states, including Wisconsin and West Virginia, have...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 7, 2021 | Health, International News
The "tragic" Covid-19 situation in India should raise the alarm bells for "all of us" and there will be reverberations across the region and the world in terms of virus-related deaths, virus mutations and supply delays unless the world steps...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 7, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India on Friday reported a record daily rise in coronavirus cases of 414,188, while deaths from COVID-19 swelled by 3,915, according to health ministry data. India's total coronavirus infections now stand at 21.49 million, while its total...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
The cloud burst incident in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district has affected about eight Public Works Development roads. According to Mukesh Repaswal, Additional Deputy Commissioner, the situation following the cloud burst in the district is under control now....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
The European Union will ask India to join its push for a global treaty on plastic pollution, according to a draft statement prepared for a virtual summit on Saturday and seen by Reuters. The draft statement, which must be signed off by EU ambassadors and needs...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Extended forecast suggests that monsoon will arrive in Kerala around June 1, its normal onset date, said M Rajeevan, the secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences, on Thursday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will issue an official...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy, Risk Management, Technology
President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies. Biden voiced...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said the country needs to be prepared for the third wave of COVID-19 which experts say could be more harmful, especially for children, and emphasised upon the need to create buffer stock of oxygen. It asked the Centre not...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 6, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
LONDON/NEW YORK/SINGAPORE: Financial institutions and their directors have to navigate a rapidly changing world, marked by new and emerging risks driven by cyber exposures based on the sector's reliance on technology, a growing burden of...
