by AIP Online Bureau | May 10, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
LONDON: The British government has told airlines it will introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus outbreak, an association representing the airlines said on Saturday.Airlines UK, which...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Risk Management
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: Anne Messman, a veteran emergency room physician in Detroit, knew something was wrong when she developed insomnia and became unusually irritated with people she loved.She began experiencing persistent sleepless nights in late March, around the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2020 | Articles, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Technology
Author:Peter Ohnemus,President & CEO,dacadoo* Despite valiant efforts, health insurers today are, for the most part, still viewed by consumers as a payment system for their illness bills – period. They’ve yet to win the hearts and minds of...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
A 5-year old boy has died in New York from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, highlighting a potential new risk for children in the pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday. Cuomo told a daily briefing that the...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 9, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Technology
OAKLAND, California: The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing feature too, an...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: "We have to learn to live with the virus," the government said on Friday, urging people to make COVID-19 prevention guidelines a part of their lives as a behavioural change amid easing of lockdown restrictions and migrant labourers...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,886 and the number of cases climbed to 56,342 in the country on Friday, registering an increase of 103 fatalities and 3,390 infections in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Technology
NEW DELHI: A court asked the Indian government on Friday to respond to a challenge against its order for compulsory use of a contact tracing app by public and private sector employees returning to work amid the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown....
by AIP Online Bureau | May 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
GENEVA: A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an “amplifying setting”, the World Health Organization said on Friday, calling for more...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 8, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: With several industrial accidents in recent past highlighting gaps, the government is in the last leg of finalising the amendment to chemical accident rules to minimise disasters such as the one that happened at Visakhapatnam polymer factory on...