by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
HYDERABAD: A 42-year-old healthcare worker in the Nirmal district of Telangana, who received Covid-19 vaccination, died early Wednesday after complaining of chest pain, with preliminary findings suggesting the death is unrelated to the vaccination, a health official...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Washington: President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Rachel Levine, currently Pennsylvania's top health official, as the next Assistant Health Secretary of the US, a move that could make her the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
JERUSALEM: Israel has included pregnant women among those getting priority access to Covid-19 vaccines, seeing no risk to them or their foetuses, a senior public health official said on Wednesday. The decision followed the hospitalisation this week of several pregnant...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Singapore: In its 2020 Reputational Risk Survey published late last year, Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, revealed that 86 percent of clients are concerned about loss of income and a reduced customer base due to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
BEIJING: Scientists in Beijing have developed a new gene therapy which can reverse some of the effects of ageing in mice and extend their lifespans, findings which may one day contribute to similar treatment for humans. The method, detailed in a paper in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: A nasal Covid-19 vaccine will be easy to give to school-going children who bear a "very mild" load of the disease but they are infectious, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said on Wednesday. The noted pulmonologist, who was interacting with the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 20, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions shortly after being sworn on Wednesday, undoing policies put in place by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, and making his first moves on the pandemic and climate change. Signing several...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
Hyderabad: Suggesting a whole range of new Cyber Liability policies, a working group formed by the insurance regulator IRDAI to study `Cyber Liability Insurance' and provide suggestion to develop a `Standard retail cyber liability cover' has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: In total 7.86 lakh healthcare workers have received COVID-19 vaccine jabs till the evening of the fifth day of the immunisation drive, according to a provisional report of the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. On Wednesday, 1,12,007 beneficiaries...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 20, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure strict compliance of the Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016. It also asked CPCB to ensure that the compensation regime is duly...
