by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
NEW DELHI: India and other South Asian countries are likely to record their worst growth performance in four decades this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the World Bank said on Sunday. The South Asian region, comprising eight countries, is...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
More than two-thirds of severely ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after treatment with remdesivir, an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc., according to new data based on patient observation. The analysis, published...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 12, 2020 | Articles, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Technology
By John Coletti & Aaron Aanenson With the ongoing spread of coronavirus, government guidance is changing rapidly. In many countries, healthy individuals are being asked for the first time to avoid unnecessary public exposure, for example at large...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was looking into reports of some COVID-19 patients testing positive again after initially testing negative for the disease while being considered for discharge. South Korean officials...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 12, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Technology
Apple Inc. and Google unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19. People must opt in to the system, but it has the potential to monitor about a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Berlin: Elderly people may have to be kept isolated until the end of the year to protect them from the coronavirus, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said in comments published Sunday. "Without a vaccine, we have to limit as much as possible contact with the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
PARIS: Before the emergence late last year of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed more than 100,000 people, the 21st century’s epidemics had been far less deadly than the pandemics of the previous century. Here are the major epidemics of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry has directed the states and Union territories to ensure adequate police protection to doctors and medical staff going to hospitals or quarantine centres during the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said Saturday. Addressing a press...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to extend a nationwide lockdown to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, the chief minister of Delhi said on Saturday, without saying how long the extension would be for. Modi earlier in the day...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 11, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Life
Mumbai: Even as, the Life Insurance Corporation(LIC) has settled 16 death claims due to COVID-19 till Saturday, the corporation has announced that for all policies, where premium is due in the month of March and April 2020, grace period has been...
