by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency over the fast-spreading coronavirus, opening the door to providing what he said was about $50 billion in federal aid to fight the disease. An emergency or disaster...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
Geneva: The World Health Organization said Friday that Europe was now the "epicentre" for the global coronavirus pandemic, and warned it was impossible to know when the outbreak would peak. "Europe has now become the epicentre of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
Volkswagen will launch a new software operating system this year that it hopes will make accidents involving its cars a thing of the past by 2050, the company said on Thursday. Next generation cars will be equipped with software, sensors and processors...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Articles, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health
The new coronavirus that’s forcing lockdowns and roiling economies is spurring a silent revolution in the field of telemedicine. As COVID-19 spreads across Europe, leaving new patients in its wake, the fear of infection and a saturated health-care system...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday reported a second death in the country in New Delhi, its capital, due to coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases jumped to 82. A Delhi woman, who had got the viral infection...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
Mumbai: Air India has cancelled flights to Italy, South Korea and Kuwait besides curtailing services to France, Germany, Spain, Israel and Sri Lanka till April 30, the airline said on Friday, amid mounting concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. An airline...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, Australia’s minister for home affairs and a Chelsea soccer player are among new cases of the coronavirus that has infected almost 135,000 people and killed more than 4,900 worldwide....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
New York: U.S. stock indexes rebounded on Friday as investors bet on another round of fiscal easing to thwart a looming global recession in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. After Wall Street's worst daily selloff in more than three decades, indexes...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 13, 2020 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life
Beijing: Chinese non-life insurers are discovering a silver lining to the cloud spreading over China’s economic performance from the coronavirus outbreak – a sharp drop in car accident claims. Beijing’s efforts to contain the new...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2020 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
Hyderabad, Backed by buoyancy in the increase of air travellers, India will require about 1,900 new passenger and cargo aircraft before 2038, president and managing director of Airbus India (South Asia) Anand Stanley said on Thursday. Of the 1,900...