Budget 2018-19

  US President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of vaccine for the novel coronavirus publicly on Monday. US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of vaccine for the novel coronavirus publicly on Monday. The event was broadcast live as part of an effort to reassure the American public of the vaccine’s safety, The Hill reported. A nurse practitioner at ChristianaCare hospital in Delaware administered the first dose of the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNtech to Biden on Monday afternoon. “Left’s good,” he told the nurse practitioner who administered the vaccine, rolling up the sleeve of his black long-sleeve turtleneck and exposing his left arm. “You just go ahead anytime you’re ready.” He credited the Trump administration for its work on Operation Warp Speed, which helped to deliver a quick vaccine, The New York Times reported. “The administration deserves some credit getting this off the ground,” he said. “I’m doing this to demonstrate that people sh...

  India needs stricter licensing laws and must ensure use of proper helmets through effective communication and fines As two-wheelers become more popular in the absence of public transport, the number of road accidents involving these is also growing. More than a third (37%) of those killed in road accidents in 2019 were two-wheeler riders, noted a Ministry of Road Transport and Highways’ report published in October this year. More crashes and deaths are resulting from faulty licensing laws, no training, poor roads and unsafe helmets. Just correct helmet use could reduce the risk of fatal injuries by 42% and head injuries by 69%, a World Health Organization report said. India needs stricter licensing laws and must ensure use of proper helmets through effective communication and fines, experts told IndiaSpend. Mandatory and proper training for riding and handling two-wheelers is a must, as is an overall improvement in road infrastructure. Also, India must bolster public transport in...

Officials in the Australian state of New South Wales have named over 100 venues across Sydney as potential Covid-19 hotspots, instructing anyone who attended them to self-isolate and get tested Officials in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) have named over 100 venues across Sydney as potential COVID-19 hotspots, instructing anyone who attended them to self-isolate and get tested. NSW recorded eight locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, taking a recent outbreak to 90 infections. Seven of the new cases were linked to Sydney’s Northern Beaches where the outbreak originated and one remained under investigation. Health alerts were issued for gyms, bars and cafes, primarily inside the original outbreak area, but also across Greater Sydney. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said despite the remaining risk she was happy to see the number of new cases drop into the single figures, compared with 15 the day before and 30 on Sunday. “The threat is there because of the number of v...

  Passengers arriving from the United Kingdom (UK) in Mumbai on Tuesday morning have been sent for institutional quarantine in the wake of he new coronavirus strain Passengers arriving from the United Kingdom (UK) in Mumbai on Tuesday morning have been sent for institutional quarantine in the wake of the new coronavirus strain. People who came to receive them said, “Government should have informed us before. Didn’t passengers board flight after being permitted by authorities?” Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner, Iqbal Singh Chahal on Monday said, “No flights to land from UK post 2:30 am. Passengers who have boarded flights will undergo institutional quarantine. Asymptomatic people will be quarantined at hotels while symptomatic passengers will be admitted at GT Hospital.” Flight services from the UK to India have been suspended till December 31 over the spread of a new strain of coronavirus in London and England. On December 20, Prime Minister Boris Johnson infor...

  Elon Musk asked about the possibility of converting “large transactions” of Tesla’s balance sheet into bitcoin, according to a Twitter exchange between him and an advocate for the digital currency (Reuters) – Elon Musk on Sunday asked about the possibility of converting “large transactions” of Tesla Inc’s balance sheet into bitcoin, according to a Twitter exchange between Musk and a well-known advocate for the digital currency. Michael Saylor, chief executive officer of MicroStrategy Inc, in a tweet to Musk, suggested that the billionaire Tesla founder and head, make the move.”If you want to do your shareholders a $100 billion favor, convert the $TSLA balance sheet from USD to #BTC,” Saylor wrote in his tweet. “Other firms on the S&P 500 would follow your lead & in time it would grow to become a $1 trillion favor.” “Are such large transactions even possible?” Musk replied to Saylor. “Yes. I have purchased over $1.3 billion in #BTC in past months & would be happy to sh...

Italy said it has detected a new coronavirus strain with mutations in a person who recently returned from the United Kingdom Italy on Sunday said it has detected a new coronavirus strain with mutations in a person who recently returned from the United Kingdom. On Saturday, the United Kingdom government locked down parts of the country including London after admitting that more than half of all new Covid-19 cases had been caused by a mutated, more infectious coronavirus strain. “The patient and their partner returned from the United Kingdom several days ago, landing in Rome’s Fiumicino airport. They are now isolated and have observed, together with family and close contacts, all procedures proscribed by the health authorities,” Sputnik quoted the ministry’s statement. According to the communication, the genome of the UK coronavirus strain has been established by experts of the Celio military hospital in Rome. The new strain of Covid-19 is “out of control”, said UK Health Secretary Matt ...

  Saudi Arabia has halted all international flights for a week amid fears over a highly infectious new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus which has been discovered in Britain Saudi Arabia has halted all international flights for a week amid fears over a highly infectious new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus which has been discovered in Britain, an Interior Ministry source has confirmed. The ban, which came into effect on Sunday, also applies to entry of passengers to the Kingdom through land and sea ports, Gulf News quoted the source as saying. “These procedures will be reviewed in light of the developments related to the pandemic, and what is received from the Ministry of Health,” the source said in a statement. Foreign flights that are currently in the Saudi territory will be exempt and will be allowed to leave, the source said. The source further said that the Saudi ban excludes movement of goods, commodities and supply chains from countries where the mutated virus has...