by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
LONDON: In order to make the global Covid-19 vaccination programme successful, the available vaccines must be able to do all three of — prevent infection becoming established in an individual, prevent disease progression and prevent onward transmission, say...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
JAKARTA: The World Health Organization said Thursday that countries in the Asia-Pacific region are not guaranteed to have early access to Covid-19 shots and urged them to adopt a long-term approach to the pandemic. "The development of safe and effective...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
LONDON: Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine candidate has a better immune response when a two full-dose regime is used rather than a full-dose followed by a half-dose booster, the university said on Thursday. The vaccine candidate, which has been licensed to AstraZeneca,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New York: After an eight-hour debate, a high powered vaccine advisory panel overwhelmingly endorsed Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use approval (EUA) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), potentially adding the second vaccine into America's...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Central government on a plea challenging the Clinical Establishments Amendment Rules, 2020, under which it has allowed unregistered and unqualified non-medical persons like MSc and Ph.D. holders to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
London: Lloyd’s will end investment in thermal coal-fired power plants, thermal coal mines, oil sands and new Arctic energy exploration activities. This involves ending new investments in these areas by Lloyd’s market participants and by the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Launching an emergency response, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will help feed children hit by the Covid-19 crisis in the United Kingdom for the first time in its 70-year history. UNICEF is to award grants to 30 local organisations through its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: The threat of growing prevalence and complexity of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is emerging and it is important to strengthen nodal institutions with human resources for detection of such resistance, according to the Niti Aayog. According to the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Kolkata Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday that the government has taken several measures to support the economy but no amount of intervention will be adequate to deal with the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the annual general...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Global pharma major Pfizer has said its Covid-19 vaccine is being priced in a way that will help governments to ensure that there is little to no out-of-pocket costs for their people, as it seeks to ensure access to the vaccine across the world. For this...
