by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
China's health authority has confirmed the detection and isolation of living novel coronavirus on the outer packaging of imported frozen marine fish the port city of Qingdao. It is for the first time in the world that living novel coronavirus has been isolated...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The pathogen that...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths have declined in the last three weeks as the spread of the pandemic has stabilised in most of the states, Niti Aayog Member V K Paul said on Sunday but did not rule out the possibility of a second wave of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 18, 2020 | Data
New Delhi: Gold imports, which have a bearing on the current account deficit (CAD), plunged 57 per cent to USD 6.8 billion (around Rs 50,658 crore) during the first half of this fiscal amid a slump in demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, showed data by the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
New Delhi: As the work continues to develop an effective vaccine for Covid-19, the government on Saturday said two pan-India studies on the genome of the virus in India suggest it is genetically stable and has shown no major mutation. There had been concerns in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: As India has scaled up its COVID-19 testing capacity from one in January to over 9.32 crore at present, the positivity rate has fallen below 8 per cent, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Sunday. As India has scaled up its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi, Calling for full preparedness to ensure speedy access to COVID-19 vaccines for every citizen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday suggested developing a vaccine delivery system on the lines of conduct of polls and disaster management while involving...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
New Delhi: India ranked 94 among 107 nations in the Global Hunger Index 2020 and was in the ''serious'' hunger category with experts blaming poor implementation processes, lack of effective monitoring, siloed approach in tackling malnutrition and poor...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
LISBON: A divided world has failed to rise to the challenge of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday and warned concerted action was needed to prevent millions of people being pushed into poverty and hunger.The former...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
MUMBAI: India’s coronavirus infections rose by another 62,212 cases over the previous day and a local media report said on Saturday that the government had begun identifying about 300 million people who would be given the vaccine first when it is ready....
