by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 16, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: India registered over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases for the fifth day in a row pushing tally to 3,43,091 on Tuesday, while the death toll rose to 9,900 with 380 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country recorded 10,667...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: India’s capital is fast running out of hospital beds amid a surge in coronavirus cases and is struggling to contain the pandemic, after critics said it did too little to prepare and reopened shopping malls and temples too soon. Some...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
BEIJING: Several districts of the Chinese capital put up security checkpoints, closed schools and ordered people to be tested for the coronavirus on Monday after an unexpected spike of cases linked to the biggest wholesale food market in Asia. After...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
A specific mutation in the new coronavirus can significantly increase its ability to infect cells, according to a study by U.S. researchers. The research may explain why early outbreaks in some parts of the world did not end up overwhelming health systems...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Singapore: Cargo ship arrivals in Singapore, the world's top transhipment and bunkering hub, plummeted to their lowest in nearly three decades in May, while dragging sales of marine fuels to a three-month low, official data showed. As the coronavirus...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
Singapore: India has seen its first parametric cover for disaster financing in place as the country’s northeastern state of Nagaland has recently signed an agreement with Tata AIG General Insurance, with Swiss as a reinsurer, to provide...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Mumbai: The listed New India Assurance(NIA) has covered 22.12 lakh public healthcare workers under the specially launched Rs 50 lakh Covid-19 personal accident policy and has already paid six claims ,within 48 hours of receiving the clam documents....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Technology
Mumbai: In a first-of-its-kind policy for drone-owners in India, HDFC ERGO and TropoGo, a Deep Tech start-up, have partnered to offer commercial drone owners and operators the mandatory Third Party Liability claims cover for property damage and bodily injuries....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 15, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
United Nations: ndia, along with 12 other countries, has led an initiative here aimed at spreading fact-based content to counter misinformation on the coronavirus, with over 130 nations endorsing the global call to fight the “infodemic” relating to the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 14, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: India’s federal government said on Sunday it will provide New Delhi’s city authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for coronavirus patients, after a surge in the number of cases led to a shortage of hospital beds....
