by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appreciated the efforts of the Centre, state and the local authorities in containing the COVID-19 situation in Delhi, and directed that a similar approach be replicated in checking the pandemic in the entire...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
India’s Biocon Ltd has received regulatory approval for its drug Itolizumab to be used on coronavirus infected patients suffering from moderate to severe respiratory distress, the biopharmaceutical company said in a statement on Saturday. The drug, which is also...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
. Bill Gates calls for COVID-19 meds to go to people who need them, not 'highest bidder'- Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called for COVID-19 drugs and an eventual vaccine to be made available to countries and people that need them most, not to the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Friday an analysis showed its antiviral remdesivir helped reduce the risk of death in severely ill COVID-19 patients, but cautioned that rigorous clinical trials were needed to confirm the benefit. Remdesivir has been at the forefront of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
NEW DELHI: Indian farmers have planted 12 million hectares with summer-sown rice, preliminary farm ministry data for this year showed, up 25% from last year as robust monsoon rains encouraged the expansion of acreage. Buoyed by the plentiful rains, rice farmers are...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
Researchers, including one of Indian origin, have said the coronavirus has made 147 million people unemployed and the global consumption loss due to the pandemic amounts to an estimated $3.8 trillion. Beyond its health effects, the pandemic and associated lockdowns...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: The government can turn COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity by investing in healthcare, and it should also pursue making all the cities slum-free by 2023, according to economists At the seventh economic conclave – organised by State Bank of India...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday decided to use technology more in judicial proceedings keeping in mind the prevailing Covid-19 situation and directed that now court summons and notices can be served on persons through emails, fax and instant messaging...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Not a single coronavirus patient under home isolation in the city has died in July and there has been a "sharp decline" in daily fatality figures in the past two weeks, a Delhi government study on COVID-19 deaths has said. The city's Health...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
CHICAGO: The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century – to the very origins of germ theory.The Geneva-based World Health Organization acknowledged this week that the...
