by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
WASHINGTON: Federal health officials Wednesday issued insurance-coverage rules designed to deliver on the promise that every American will have access to free COVID-19 vaccines when they are approved. The regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The Centre has asked states to constitute committees for coordination and overseeing COVID-19 vaccination drive while ensuring minimal disruptions in other routine healthcare services, and stressed early tracking of social media to dispel rumours which...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: India saw 48,648 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day taking the COVID-19 caseload to 80,88,851, while the active cases fell below 6,00,000, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The national recovery rate crossed 91...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Australia needs national coordination of disaster responses, a change to laws to allow country-wide state of emergencies and simplified climate-change projections, an enquiry into its worst bushfire season in a generation found on Friday.Inevitable climate...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 500,000 for the first time on Wednesday, a record one-day increase as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reported daily spikes.Global daily COVID-19 cases have risen by nearly 25% in less than two weeks as the world...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
LONDON: Too few companies specify their prospective financial hit from climate change under a voluntary global disclosure code that needs wider backing from asset managers and others to be fully effective, a global regulatory body said on Thursday.Climate...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 30, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Technology
Facebook Inc. risks being dragged into a UK legal dispute involving almost 1 million British users affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, two years after revelations about the misuse of private data caused a global backlash. A group — Facebook You Owe Us...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 29, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
Typhoon Molave hit Vietnam’s central coastline and northern Central Highlands with winds of up to 133 kilometers per hour on Wednesday, triggering landslides in Quang Nam province, VnExpress news website reported, citing local authorities. A landslide...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
BRUSSELS: A vaccine scheme co-led by the World Health Organization is setting up a compensation fund for people in poor nations who might suffer any side-effects from COVID-19 vaccines, aiming to allay fears that could hamper a global rollout of shots.The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 29, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The upper and lower limits on domestic airfares will remain in place for another three months post November 24, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday. The ministry had on May 21 placed these limits through seven bands, classified on...
