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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said these steps will help mitigate financial difficulties faced by these families. “Family Pension under ESIC and EPFOEmployees Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme will provide a financial cushion to those families who have lost their earning member due to Covid-19. GOI stands in solidarity with these families,” he tweeted.
India News: NEW DELHI: The government on Saturday announced that dependants of workers who have died due to Covid-19 since March 23 last year will be eligible for.
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Employees or their families who are fighting the virus will get free treatment in hospitals.
ESIC has 21 hospitals operating in the country.
Millions of employees have lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has pushed India into an economic slowdown. To provide some relief in these tough times, Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has decided to offer an unemployment allowance to employees registered with the scheme.
ESIC said, Even if the employee is non-present for 90 days during treatment, he can claim salary under sickness benefit benefits. He can get paid at the rate of 70 per cent of salary every day.”
Amid Covid surge, South Africa health min aims to vaccinate for herd immunity
A passenger receives a nasal swab from a healthcare worker in South Africa
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. Updated: 07 Jan 2021, 03:33 PM IST Reuters
A more contagious coronavirus mutant, first found on South Africa s east coast late last year, is driving a second wave of infections
This week, deaths in South Africa surpassed 30,000
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South Africa s health minister on Thursday detailed plans to vaccinate 40 million people or two-thirds of its population against Covid-19 in order to achieve herd immunity, as a mutant variant drove daily new cases above 21,000 for the first time.