by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 9, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
BENGALURU,Dec 09: Amazon.com Inc is considering a nearly $100 million investment in India's pharmacy chain Apollo Pharmacy, facing up to Reliance Industries Ltd and Tata Group in the country's fast-growing drug market, the Economic Times reported...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 9, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi,Dec 09: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 97.35 lakh on Wednesday, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 92 lakh, pushing the national recovery rate to 94.66 per cent, according to the Union health ministry. The total...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 9, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Policy
MUMBAI: India may approve some coronavirus vaccines over the next few weeks and an estimated 300 million people would be innoculated in the first tranche, the country’s top health official said on Tuesday. “There are multiple vaccine candidates in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 9, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
BHUBANESWAR: Indian authorities said on Tuesday they found traces of lead and nickel particles in blood samples, after hundreds of people were hospitalised due to an unknown illness in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Teams of doctors, including those from...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 9, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Bharat Biotech is expected to initiate Phase-1 trials of its intranasal vaccine for Covid-19 next month, chairman and MD Krishna Ella said on Tuesday. He said his firm is setting up two more facilities for manufacturing vaccines, including for Covaxin. “I think...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New York: While some reports have come out saying antibodies to coronavirus may last longer, a new study has revealed that the antibodies fade rapidly post contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus that causes Covid-19. A new five-month longitudinal analysis of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Washington: A large study of patients in the United States who contracted Covid-19 confirms many complications of the disease, according to new research. The research was published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Understanding the full...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Covid-19 has been a shot in the arm for vaccine research with several viable jabs in production less then a year after the disease emerged. Yet four in 10 Americans, and six in 10 French people say they will not get vaccinated against the virus, even if the shot is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Travel restrictions are effective in countries with low numbers of Covid-19 cases, or that have strong travel links with nations experiencing high rates of the viral infection, according to a study published in The Lancet Public Health journal. The study...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 8, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: All four bank officers' unions have demanded for inclusion of bankers as frontline Covid warriors so that they can be administered the vaccine on a priority basis given their importance in keeping wheels of the economy running. In a letter...
