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During the last few weeks, India has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases this year, with one Covid-19 related death being reported every five minutes a staggering figure that has left the country in despair.
At present, India has 3,487,229 active cases with more than 300,000 new cases being reported every day since last week. The hard-hit travel industry in India, which was just starting to show some signs of recovery in February and March, is now facing a major challenge.
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Skift Research’s India-based senior analyst Varsha Arora sets out the enormous challenges the travel industry is now facing.
These symptoms range from muscle weakness and fatigue, anxiety and depression, to more severe respiratory issues.
These long-term effects of the virus are what some scientists are calling long-Covid. However, while this study is one of the first large studies on long-Covid, much remains uncertain about the virus’ lasting impact on the body.
“We’re not 100% sure how many people are going to suffer from ongoing symptoms. It’s not the case in all circumstances, but conversely it actually is the case that some patients in the acute illness are relatively asymptomatic, so it’s difficult to know how many people will have ongoing symptoms or in fact how long those symptoms will actually last for,” says Guy Richards, professor emeritus in critical care at Wits University.
IDA Ireland might be feeling a little bit damned if they do, and damned if they don t when it comes to the kinds of foreign direct investment projects the agency goes after.
An agency report compiled by the OECD rightly highlighted the success of Ireland s FDI policies and the agency most responsible for making the investments happen.
But it also pointed to a higher concentration risk in the number of sectors represented in the mix and the location of the parent companies. In other words, we are too dependent on the likes of tech and pharma, especially from the US. American firms account for 70pc of inward FDI stock.
CPL Resources boss Anne Heraty and her husband Paul Carroll are understood to have lined up a sale of their majority-owned Trinity Care nursing home business for about €100m.
It comes just weeks after the deal to sell their CPL recruitment firm that will bag the couple a massive €110m.
Listed Belgian property investor Cofinimmo said yesterday that it has agreed to pay €93m for six nursing homes and a rehabilitation centre in Ireland.
The properties are still listed as being operated by Trinity Care. The company behind Trinity Care, Costern, also owned the seven properties which are located in Dublin, Cavan, Meath, Kildare and Louth. They have a total of 491 beds.
Longford businesswoman Anne Heraty and her partner Paul Carroll are reported to be negotiating on the sale of their majority-owned Trinity Care nursing home business for up to €100 million euro. The couple first invested in the business almost 9 years ago. It’s understood the nursing home business will be bought by a Paris based […]