by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 26, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi, The ransomware attacks on high-profile targets such as corporations, government agencies and municipal organisations globally increased by a whopping 767 per cent in one year (from 2019 to 2020), according to a new report. Targeted ransomware attacks...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Amidst the devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India reported 3.52 lakh fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest single-day spike registered since the onset of the pandemic. A total of 3,52,991 new COVID-19...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy, Regulation
New Delhi: Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Sunday wrote to Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, and to the health department of all states and union territories about facilitating the systematic implementation of phase III of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The recurrence of coronavirus outbreak in March could have been be due to lack of "meaningful antibodies" in seropositive people after a peak in September last year, suggests a survey by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi; Bharat Biotech has written to the India's drug regulator seeking extension of the shelf-life of its indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin from six to 24 months, sources said on Sunday. Covaxin, along with Covishield manufactured by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Centre on Sunday barred the use of liquid oxygen for any non-medical purpose and asked manufacturing units to maximise its production and make it available to the government for medical use. The order by Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla came amid...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Italy has joined other countries by imposing restrictions on travel from India to avert the spread of a COVID-19 variant as the Asian nation struggles with a surge in infections. Italy's Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Twitter he had signed an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
Vrishti Beniwal Just two weeks ago, the International Monetary Fund upgraded India’s economic growth forecast to 12.5% — the quickest rate among major economies. Now, as Covid-19 cases surge the most globally, that bullish view is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Singapore: An antiseptic throat spray and an oral drug usually prescribed to treat malaria and arthritis have been found to effectively reduce the spread of COVID-19 in high-transmission settings, researchers in Singapore have found, according to a media report...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 25, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: With six variants of concern (VOC) of coronavirus that is dominating global topography currently, India is grappling with three particular variants, i.e. the UK, Brazil, and South Africa, since the second COVID-19 wave struck the country. The...
