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Global airlines blast govts for messy coronavirus pandemic response
Airlines have themselves been under fire from governments and consumer groups for disruption as travel demand resumes more briskly than expected
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Airline industry predicts profit in 2023, defying slowdown headwinds
Losses this year are likely to total $9.7 billion as air travel begins its recovery from the coronavirus crisis
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Mandaviya urges G20 to focus on rapid sharing genome sequencing data
This could be done across multiple pathogens with equitable benefit sharing under the framework of the Nagoya protocol, he added.
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Covishield booster post Covaxin priming improves immune response 58x: CMC
So far, India has not allowed heterologous boosting of vaccines
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Delhi logs 1,060 Covid cases, 6 deaths in a day; positivity rate at 10.09%
This is the highest test positivity rate recorded in the capital since January 24 when 11.8 per cent of the people tested had turned out Covid positive.
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At 1,310, Mumbai sees 37% drop in new Covid cases; active tally past 14,000
Mumbai on Monday reported 1,310 fresh Covid-19 cases, a drop of 37 per cent compared to the previous day, and two fatalities, the city civic body said.
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TRIPS waiver deal in WTO to help countries make Covid vaccines: Goyal
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said TRIPS waiver for five years agreed in the recently concluded WTO will help countries manufacture Covid vaccines to deal with the pandemic.
2,345 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths in Maharashtra; active tally at 24,613
The state is now left with over 24,000 active cases after 1,485 patients were discharged after Covid-19 treatment in the last 24 hours, taking the overall number of recoveries to 77,65,602.
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Congress chief Sonia Gandhi discharged from hospital, advised rest at home
Ramesh had said earlier that Gandhi was admitted to the hospital after profuse bleeding from the nose following a recent Covid infection.
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Auto ancillaries' revenue may grow 8%-10% in FY23 on stable demand: Icra
The revenues are expected to grow 8-10 per cent in 2022-23 on the back of a stable demand and likely easing of supply-chain concerns in the second half of the year, Icra said.
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EasyJet cuts more flights to try to manage disruption, sees cost hit
The UK discount carrier will now operate at around 87% of pre-Covid capacity in three months ending June 30, increasing to about 90% for its fiscal fourth quarter through September, a statement said
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Over 27.5 mn people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in Myanmar
Myanmar has fully vaccinated more than 27.5 million people, or 50.18 per cent of the country's 54.8-million population, against Covid-19, according to its Ministry of Health.
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China reports 14 fresh local Covid-19 infections, 10 logged in Shanghai
China reported 14 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, including four in Beijing and 10 in Shanghai in the past 24 hours, according to the National Health Commission's report Monday.
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Data story: India logs 12,781 fresh Covid cases, 18 new deaths reported
India has so far administered 1,961,866,707 vaccine doses
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Covid-19 active case tally crosses 500-mark in Lucknow, 2,500 in UP
The number of active Covid cases in Lucknow have crossed the 500-mark after a gap of nearly four months
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Thane reports 849 new Covid-19 cases, infection tally at 718,884
Thane has reported 849 new cases of coronavirus, raising the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 718,884, an official said on Monday.
Use of ICT in school education in India receives UNESCO's recognition
The Ministry of Education initiative to use ICT under the "PM eVidya" scheme during the Covid pandemic has won UNESCO's recognition, officials said on Sunday
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Delhi logs 1,530 new Covid cases in 24 hrs; positivity rate rises to 8.4%
This was the fifth consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 1,300 cases in a day. The fresh cases were detected out of 18,183 Covid tests conducted the previous day
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Statsguru: Six charts show India's employment conundrum amid Covid-19
Business Standard guides you through the numbers you need to know to make sense of the headlines
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Telangana: Active cases zoom past 2,000-mark with 236 fresh infections
No fresh fatality occurred due to the infection in the state and the death toll continued to be 4,111
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