By Professor Sebastien Chastin (Sebastien Chastin is a Professor of Health Behavior Dynamics in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and in the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences at Ghent University) A new study has found that you are 50% more likely to have higher antibodies after a vaccine, […]
Nature Governments that ignore or delay acting on scientific advice are missing out on a crucial opportunity to control the pandemic. Last week, Brazil’s total death toll from COVID-19 passed 400,000. In India, the pandemic is taking around 3,500 lives every day and has prompted a global response, with offers of oxygen, ventilators, intensive-care beds […]
New Delhi: May 1, 2021 Reuters India’s total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record number of daily infections, as gravediggers worked around the clock to bury victims and hundreds more were cremated in makeshift pyres in parks and parking lots. India reported 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths on […]
By Nirupam Bajpai, John Biberman and Manisha Wadhwa (Centre for Sustainable Development) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has emerged as one of the key players in fighting the COVID-19 situation in India. The unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19 has accelerated the process of digitalization of many services and businesses including healthcare services, education, online delivery […]
By International Energy Agency-IEA In light of the extraordinary impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown measures on the energy system, the IEA published the electricity data. This report includes data through the end of 2020. In India, the recovery of electricity demand was confirmed with higher levels than in 2019 starting in early […]
28th April, 2021: New Delhi Current measures to reduce transmission – including frequent hand washing, wearing a mask, physical distancing, good ventilation and avoiding crowded places or closed settings – continue to work against new variants by reducing the amount of viral transmission and therefore also reducing opportunities for the virus to mutate. Scaling up […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau ICTpost estimates that mobile communications currently represents about 18% of the global ICT sector impact though this could grow to 25% by 2025 through the continued growth in subscribers. This numbers should also be seen in the context of GDP contribution. About 80% of a mobile operators’ energy is used by the […]
ICTpost Health IT Bureau The current Indian healthcare system is in need of a radical reinvention. Traditional approaches have not brought the rapid change required by aging populations and the rising costs of healthcare, and government efforts too often get bogged down in partisan politics and fail to address systemic issues. Here we are discussing […]
New Delhi: April 1, 2021 With social media having gone mainstream across the world, organisations – small and large, are not only looking for aggressive ownership in this new media pie, but also working out unique ways of keeping their constituents informed and engaged across multiple channels that predominantly include Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Flickr. […]
ICTpost mHealth Bureau Centuries of ignorance, suppression, gender and caste discrimination have erected strong cultural barriers to information sharing and dissemination. And yet we say that India lives in her villages. However, it is indeed heartening to note that India is among those developing nations where the progress in e-Health has been encouraging, despite the […]
