by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
LONDON: People who’ve had COVID-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least six months after their first infection, according to a British study of healthcare workers on the frontline of fight against the coronavirus pandemic.The findings should...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Risk Management
NEW YORK: Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a New York state judge to pay $120 million in damages to a Brooklyn woman and her husband, after she blamed her cancer on asbestos exposure from using the company’s baby powder. Justice Gerald Lebovits...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic, Risk Management
GENEVA: Wealthy nations on Friday reiterated their opposition to a proposal to waive intellectual property rules for COVID-19 drugs, three trade sources said, despite pressure to make an exception to improve access to drugs for poorer countries. Supporters of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc. could receive conditional European Union marketing authorization for their Covid-19 vaccines in the second half of next month, according to the head of the EU’s executive arm, putting the bloc on track to start distributing...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Pfizer said Friday it is asking U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine, starting the clock on a process that could bring limited first shots as early as next month and eventually an end to the pandemic — but not until after a long, hard...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: The government on Friday released the backend code of Aarogya Setu in the open domain that will help people understand the functioning of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app and allay apprehensions they may have around privacy and security. The source code of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy
MUMBAi: A working group at India’s central bank has recommended a series of changes that could transform the country’s banking landscape by paving the way for large industrial conglomerates to set up banks. The proposals could also allow large...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that marriage between first cousins is illegal. The court said that marriage which petitioner man wants to perform with a girl, who is his first cousin, was also per se illegal. "…the submission...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
MUMBAI: The head of an Indian company contracted to make AstraZeneca Plc's COVID vaccine said it could deliver it to health care workers and elderly Indians by January as the country's caseload of infections crossed nine million on Friday. The Serum Institute...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 20, 2020 | Indian News, Life, Technology
Mumbai: M R Kumar,chairman,Life Insurance Corporation(LIC), on Thursday,virtually launched the corporations' first digital application, Atma Nirbhar Agents New Business Digital Application( ANANDA),a first of its kind in the Indian life...
