by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Targeted ransomware attacks on the healthcare and pharma sector will surge in India in 2021 as companies finalise their vaccines to fight Covid-19, a new report said on Wednesday. Healthcare and pharma sector companies that have been in the front lines...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
The United Arab Emirates’ highest Islamic authority, the UAE Fatwa Council, has ruled that coronavirus vaccines are permissible for Muslims even if they contain pork gelatin. The ruling follows growing alarm that the use of pork gelatin, a common vaccine...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
London,Dec 23: British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc told Reuters on Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine should be effective against the new coronavirus variant, adding that studies were under way to fully probe the impact of the mutation. “AZD1222...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi,Dec 23: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said people who have arrived here from the UK are being rigorously traced and tested for any COVID-19-like symptoms. He asserted that the coronavirus situation in the city is under control with...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The misuse and wastage of potable water has to be prevented and authorities should continuously monitor it, the National Green Tribunal has said. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel made the observation while asking a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi, Dec 23: The NGT held on Tuesday that gas leak in an Andhra Pradesh unit in which two people were killed was due to operational negligence and asked the state's Director of Industries to conduct safety audit of the pharma city at Vishakhapatnam and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Johannesburg: The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group offers a new insurance mechanism to African countries in the South West Indian Ocean (SOOI) region to cope with the devastating effects of cyclones tropical. This parametric insurance product will...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
London//New York/Paris//Singapore,Dec 23 The Covid-19 pandemic has created a highly volatile and uncertain environment for businesses resulting in a litany of new or heightened risks for directors and officers (D&O) as well as exacerbating the situation in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Melbourne, Dec 23: People who have recovered from the novel coronavirus infection have immune memory to protect against reinfection for at least eight months, according to a new study which provides strong evidence for the likelihood that COVID-19 vaccines...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi,Dec 23: Adapting to the new hybrid normal of working remotely as well as from office, cautiously optimistic companies are looking to hire more people and provide better appraisals in 2021, as they step out of pandemic-ravaged 2020. The pandemic emerged the...
