MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine capital Manila will widen a ban on minors leaving their residences to include youths of up to 18 years old for two weeks starting on Wednesday, tightening coronavirus restrictions in a bid to tackle a new surge of infections. Only those aged 18-65 years old will be allowed out of their homes, the Metro Manila Development Authority said in a statement, citing an agreement among mayors. The Philippines late last year started easing one of the world s longest and strictest lockdowns though a rule that anyone under 15 must stay indoors in Manila remained in place. The Southeast Asian country has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases this month, recording the largest daily increase since mid-August on Monday with 5,404 new infections. Nighttime curfews have been reimposed since Monday for two weeks in Metropolitan Manila, the country s coronavirus hotspot that is home to more than 12 million people. Additional measures such as liquor bans and localised lockdowns i
No conclusive data to establish direct correlation of death, disease due to air pollution: Govt
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Last Updated: Mar 16, 2021, 08:17 PM IST
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There is no conclusive data available to establish a direct correlation of death and disease exclusively due to air pollution, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
There is no conclusive data available to establish a direct correlation of death and disease exclusively due to air pollution, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. He was responding to a question on whether the government has undertaken any study about the ill effects caused by pollution on asthma patients, lungs of children and pregnant women in the country during the last three months of year 2019.
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Devastating harms from tobacco use and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in pregnancy
A new WHO report, Tobacco Control To Improve Child Health And Development, calls for raising awareness among practitioners and policymakers about the importance of strong tobacco control measures for protecting the health and development of children, including banning tobacco advertising, implementing 100% smoke-free environments and raising taxes on tobacco.
Exposure to tobacco smoke has devastating impacts throughout childhood and adolescence, starting from conception.
Exposure of unborn children to maternal smoking or second-hand smoke is linked to birth defects, stillbirths, preterm births and infant deaths. Maternal smoking during pregnancy is linked to a doubling of the risk of sudden infant death and birth defects, while exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy is linked to a 23% increased risk of stillbirth and 13% increased risk of congenital malformation.
New study: 30,000 deaths related to pandemic-fueled job loss
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Deaths from COVID-19 are not the only pandemic-related deaths researchers are focusing on. A new study out of the University of California San Francisco estimates that 30,000 Americans have died due to pandemic-related unemployment.
âUnemployment can have consequences in terms of stress, prompting substance abuse. It can prompt suicide. Economic crises that push people to extreme measures,â explained Alicia Riley, a postdoctoral scholar who helped conduct the study.
Thirty-seven percent of the American workforce is made up of people with a high school education or less, but the study found those people made up 72 percent of those 30,000 deaths. It s a disparity that Riley says shows the burden that is placed on rural communities or communities of color where help is less readily available.