by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Jobs are returning in India as the economy recovers from lockdown-related losses, according to the head of a top staffing firm. Quess Corp., which claims to be India’s largest private-sector employer providing staffing services to companies, saw its workforce...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
LONDON: Britain’s AstraZeneca said on Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be around 90% effective without any serious side effects. The vaccine developed by Oxford University was 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 when it was administered as a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 23, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
NEW YORK: In remote northern Michigan a propane shortage in early 2014 caused prices to nearly double, squeezing about half of the families there who rely on the fossil fuel to heat their homes. Glenda Bowler remembers her son fitting a wood stove at his restaurant as...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 23, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload went past 91 lakh with 44,059 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, while the?recoveries surged to 85,62,641, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday The total coronavirus cases mounted to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
London: Britain could give regulatory approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine this week, even before the United States authorises it, the Telegraph news site reported on Sunday. Citing government sources, it said British regulators were about to start a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
DUBAI/RIYADH: Leaders of the 20 biggest economies vowed on Sunday to spare no effort to supply COVID-19 drugs, tests and vaccines affordably and fairly to “all people”, reflecting worries that the pandemic could deepen divisions between the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
U.S. healthcare workers and others recommended for the nation’s first COVID-19 inoculations could start getting shots within a day or two of regulatory consent next month, a top official of the government’s vaccine development effort said on Sunday....
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: India’s health minister said on Sunday a locally-developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate could complete its final trials in a month or two, raising hopes for a rapid roll-out in a country with the world’s second highest number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
ZURICH: A World Health Organization (WHO) special COVID-19 envoy predicted a third wave of the pandemic in Europe in early 2021, if governments repeat what he said was a failure to do what was needed to prevent the second wave of infections. "They missed...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Moscow: The price per dose of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V will be much lower than that of the vaccines of US drug giants Pfizer and Moderna, said the Russian vaccine's official Twitter account on Sunday. "Translating pharma lingo: the...
