by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MOSCOW/BRASILIA: Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state fund bankrolling the project told Reuters. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: A vaccine for the coronavirus will likely be ready by early 2021 but rolling it out safely across India’s 1.3 billion people will be the country’s biggest challenge in fighting its surging epidemic, a leading vaccine scientist told Bloomberg....
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a legislation that provides for up to seven years in jail for those attacking healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus or during any situation akin to the current pandemic. The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020, will...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 infection tally crossed 55 lakh on Tuesday, while a record 1,01,468 patients recovered in a day, taking their number to 44,97,867 and pushing the recovery rate to 80.86 percent, the Union health ministry data showed. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Singapore:: New research from Dive In,, the global festival for diversity and inclusion in insurance, highlights the urgent need for companies to give diversity and inclusion (D&I) their full attention, especially in times of crisis. The survey was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: As the world waits expectantly for COVID-19 vaccine, Zydus Cadila Chairman Pankaj R Patel said India would need to invest between ₹3,000-5,000 crore to create additional facilities for making a huge number of vaccines required for the Indian...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 21, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
The death toll from the spread of the coronavirus in the United States was approaching over 200,000 on Monday, by the far the highest number of any nation. The United States, on a weekly average, is now losing about 800 lives each day to the virus, according to a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO: A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past outbreaks of dengue fever that suggests exposure to the mosquito-transmitted illness may provide some level of immunity...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 21, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
PARIS: Airbus has unveiled three visual concepts for “zero emission” airplanes to be powered by hydrogen.It is the planemaker’s latest effort to draw public attention to its “zero-emission” ambitions as European governments push...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 21, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: More than 3.8 lakh companies have been struck off from official records under the companies law during the past three years, according to the government. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh...
