New Delhi: Indian-origin Dr Sumbul Desai, Vice President of Health at Apple, will be in India next month to share her thoughts on how healthtech is transforming the healthcare sector globally. Desai, who recently served as Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine in the US, will participate … Read more
Washington: The number of Covid-19 cases registered in the US since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 exceeded a staggering 100 million, Johns Hopkins University has said, amid a sharp spike in caseloads globally and the WHO making a strong pitch for vaccination. Japan, the US, the Republic of Korea, Brazil and China … Read more
April 26, 2022 – Deaths from COVID-19 may have caught more attention lately, but heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 300,000 Americans will die this year of sudden cardiac arrest (also called sudden cardiac death, or SCD), when the heart abruptly stops working. These events happen suddenly and … Read more
Nov. 22, 2021 — The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. Overall, more than 771,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the U.S. during the pandemic. About 385,000 were reported in 2020, according to CDC data, and … Read more
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday wished his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on India’s 75th Independence Day, reaffirming the strong bilateral ties, especially the partnership in advancing an “open and free” Indo-Pacific. In a video message posted on his twitter account, Morrison greeted the Indian community with a ‘Namaste’ and said that the two … Read more
Peru’s COVID-19 death rate is found to be the worlds’ worst after the government revised its data on Monday (local time). The Peruvian Government has more than doubled the country’s coronavirus death toll. The government updated the figure from 69,342 to 180,764 based on experts’ advice, reported NHK World. The government said that it took … Read more
The IMF on Tuesday projected an impressive 12.5 per cent growth rate for India in 2021, stronger than that of China, the only major economy to have a positive growth rate last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Washington-based global financial institution, in its annual World Economic Outlook ahead of the annual Spring meeting with … Read more
The COVID-19 death toll in the US has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University on Monday, are about equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and greater than that of Miami; Raleigh, North … Read more
The IMF has warned that the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines risks exacerbating financial vulnerabilities, especially for frontier market economies, even though their approval and rollout have boosted expectations of a global recovery and lifted risk asset prices. In its Global Financial Stability update released on Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund underlined that until the … Read more
Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 99 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.12 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll … Read more