by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday bluntly contradicted President Donald Trump’s suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine may be only weeks away, warning Americans they cannot trust the president’s word.“The idea that...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
UNITED NATIONS U.N. food chief David Beasley called on the world’s billionaires on Thursday to step up to help save some 30 million people he said are at risk of dying if they don’t receive help from the World Food Programme. Globally some 270...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic, Technology
NEW DELHI: A hospital in India has deployed a customer-service robot to patrol its wards, connecting coronavirus patients to friends and relatives. Mitra, meaning “friend” in Hindi, is best known for interacting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MUMBAI: India recorded 96,424 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking its tally to 5.2 million, data from the federal health ministry showed on Friday. India has been posting the highest single-day caseload in the world since early August, and seems on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Mumbai: SWIFT, one of the largest financial messaging systems in the world,today announced that over the next two years and beyond it will fundamentally transform payments and securities processing, retooling cross-border infrastructure as part of a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | International News, Non-Life
Hong Kong: Generali Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) has appointed Brendan McDonald as Head of Underwriting for Asia with effective from 1st August.,Based in the Hong Kong, Generali’s regional headquarters,Brendan is responsible for driving...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
MADRID: The global economic recovery from the crisis originated by the coronavirus pandemic may take as much as five years, the World Bank's chief economist Carmen Reinhart said on Thursday. "There will probably be a quick rebound as all the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
SINGAPORE: The World Health Organisation said that more than 170 countries had joined its global plan to distribute vaccines fairly around the world, but cautioned that a race to develop shots could lead to public fears about safety. Trials of a vaccine in Britain...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Facebook Inc will no longer show health groups in its recommendations, the social media giant announced on Thursday, saying it was crucial that people get health information from “authoritative sources.” Over the last year, the company took down more than...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Hyderabad: A Working Group,formed by the segment regulator IRDAI, has proposed the setting up of an Indian Pandemic Risk Pool, with a capacity of around Rs 75,000 crores,to address losses and unsettlement caused to the informal and low income sectors of the...
