by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 6, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
New York: In a first, a team of scientists has developed a new Covid-19 global surveillance system which can dynamically track not just where the virus is now, but where it is going, how fast it will arrive and whether that speed is accelerating. The new...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 6, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorisation of its coronavirus vaccine in India, media said on Sunday, the first to do so in a country with the world’s second-highest number of infections. The U.S. company, whose vaccine was recently...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 6, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 96.44 lakh, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 91 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 94.37 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Even as the race to approve and distribute COVID-19 vaccines is entering its final stretch, parts of the travel industry are sprinting to a different finish line: airport testing. In hubs large and small, from JFK to Boston to Frankfurt, Germany, a variety of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Dec 5 India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 96.08 lakh with 36,652 new cases in a day, while 90,58,822 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national recovery rate to 94.28 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union Health...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Bharat Biotech on Saturday defended its COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, terming it safe and efficacious after Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij tested positive for the viral disease despite taking the first shot of the medication. Vij had offered to be the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Pandemic
By Andreas Kluth It’s now just a matter of weeks before shoulders are bared, syringes primed and vaccines injected. If last year was the one that gave Covid-19 its name and 2020 was defined by masks, gowns and swabs, 2021 will be the year of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MOSCOW, Dec 05: Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday to the most exposed groups, marking Russia’s first large-scale vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said. The Russian-made...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Shareholders of India’s largest bank are raising concerns about a proposed loan to Adani Enterprises Ltd. to help fund the opening of the controversial Carmichael coal mine in northern Australia. Officials from New York-based BlackRock Inc. and Norway’s...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 5, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Geneva: Almost 100 per cent of COVID-19 patients develop antibodies no matter the course of the disease, WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday. "What we understand is 90 to 100 per cent of people who are infected with the virus do develop an antibody...
