Scrapping its coronavirus pandemic policy of boarding passengers in smaller groups, Southwest Airlines has resumed its traditional boarding procedures.

The nation’s largest domestic carrier, which doesn’t assign seats, began boarding passengers in groups of 30 on March 15. It had been boarding passengers in groups of ten since it unveiled its “Southwest Promise” health and safety protocols last May. [TRENDING: Missing Fla.

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RBI monetary policy, PMI data, Covid-19 trends to drive markets this week

RBI interest rate decision, macroeconomic data, COVID-19 trends and global cues would drive equity markets this week, analysts said.They also said that the markets may see some consolidation ahead of the earnings season which would start from mid-April."Going ahead, Indian markets are likely to track global cues after the recent announcement of investment plan by the US President. Further, investors would now focus on upcoming quarterly results which would kick start from mid-April," Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd said."Domestically, concerns over the fast spreading second wave of COVID-19 in India continues to remain and the fear of possible lockdowns prevail.

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Health Minister Harsh Vardhan approves national policy for rare diseases

₹20 lakh under the Umbrella Scheme of Rastriya Arogya Nidhi is proposed for the treatment of those rare diseases that require a one-time treatment (diseases listed under Group 1 in the rare disease policy)."Beneficiaries for such financial assistance will not be limited to BPL families, but the benefit will be extended to about 40 per cent of the population who are eligible under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana," the health ministry said in the statement.The financial support for the treatment of rare diseases is proposed under the Umbrella Scheme of Rastriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) and not under the Ayushman Bharat PMJAY, it stated.Besides, the policy also envisages a crowd funding mechanism in which corporates and individuals will be

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Hong Kong bars incoming Singapore Airlines flights until April 16 over Covid-19

SINGAPORE : Hong Kong has barred until mid-April incoming passenger flights from Singapore operated by Singapore Airlines, after an arriving passenger tested positive for COVID-19 infection.Three passengers on the carrier's March 31 flight also failed to comply with disease precautions, Hong Kong authorities said on Friday.Singapore Airlines confirmed the order but said passenger services from Hong Kong to Singapore would not be affected by the suspension, which runs until April 16.A transit passenger on the SQ882 flight had a negative pre-departure test result, but subsequently tested positive on arrival in Hong Kong, the airline said."SIA has taken immediate steps to strengthen checks at the point of embarkation to ensure our customers

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Irdai standardizes technical notes for health, motor insurance policies

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Gov. Ron DeSantis rails against President Biden’s immigration policy

TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis railed against the Biden Administration’s immigration policies during a news briefing in Titusville on Thursday.

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Florida farm changes sunflower picking policy after ‘an overwhelming amount of theft’

CLERMONT, Fla. – Guests sneaking out sunflowers and butchering blossoms has caused a Florida farm to change its picking policy.

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COVID-19: English School boards must comply with back-to-school order

Despite outcry from students, teachers and parents, students in secondary 3, 4 and 5 will have to go back to in-person learning after an order from Quebec’s Education Minister Jean-François Roberge.

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Delta to resume selling middle seats on flights

Delta Air Lines is ending one of its pandemic-era practices.

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Reversing Trump policies, Pentagon to release new rules for transgender troops

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition, defense officials told The Associated Press.Download the News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherThe new department regulations allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve openly in their self-identified gender, and they will be able to get medically necessary transition-related care authorized by law, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal decisions not yet made public.The changes come after a two-month Pentagon review aimed at

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Reversing Trump, Pentagon to release new transgender policy

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Wednesday will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition, defense officials told The Associated Press.

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Renewals hit, uptake rate for new policies surged amid covid: Nikhil Apte

Mint, Nikhil Apte, Chief Product Officer - Product Factory (Health Insurance), Royal Sundaram General Insurance, said it is extremely important to motivate policyholders and help them understand the importance of the renewal of policy during uncertain times, especially during the pandemic.What was the impact on policy renewals during covid time?We observe a challenging time for our policyholders, at the same time consumer behaviour displayed by the policyholders also need to be understood. Firstly, on one side customers are facing unprecedented health risk as their family members, relatives, neighbours getting admitted to hospitals.

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COVID-19 infected Kolkata-bound passenger de-boarded from flight

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Montreal school boards take a staggered approach as senior grades return to class in red zones

Places of worship open doors across Quebec despite rise in COVID-19 variant cases Only secondary 3 students will be sitting at their desks for Montreal’s largest school board.EMSB officials say scheduling conflicts and a short time frame made the return difficult and unsafe.“We have various schools of various sizes, you can’t just have a one-size-fits-all approach.” EMSB chair Joe Ortona said.Ortona says allowing all schools to return to full capacity would be dangerous and risk not conforming with public health guidelines.“We have to make sure this return to class as safely as possible and ensures the safety and security of students and staff,” Ortona said.“Several hundred students all have recess at the same time.

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Southwest Airlines orders 100 Boeing 737 Max planes

NEW YORK – Southwest Airlines said Monday it’s expanding its all-Boeing fleet with an order for 100 737 MAX airplanes.

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Vice presidents' policy projects come with political risks

WASHINGTON – Mike Pence led the coronavirus task force only to be constantly overruled by the White House. Al Gore's efforts to “reinvent government" were largely forgotten during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Dan Quayle's revamping of space policy never got much notice to begin with.

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'F**k this place!' Airline pilot blasts Bay Area, liberals in expletive-filled rant

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KTVU) - An airline pilot's expletive-laden rant against the Bay Area was caught on a hot mic as he awaited takeoff. The verbal tirade was captured over the Mineta San Jose International Airport’s air traffic control scanner on March 13 and archived by Live ATC. The audio is choppy and the context around the rant remains unclear, according to travel site One Mile at a Time, who was first to report the incident. "F—k this place, goddamn liberal f—ks" the unidentified pilot is heard saying.

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Why COVID-19 policy should explicitly consider men's health

strategy of the former administration nor that of the current administration considers these gendered patterns.Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment.When people discuss gender, the focus is almost exclusively on women. However, men have been dying at far higher rates than women since the earliest days of the pandemic.Women experience more economic and social hardship, but men die more.

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The Latest: France's Macron defends no-lockdown policy

PARIS — France’s president says he has nothing to be sorry about for refusing to impose a third virus lockdown earlier this year, even as his country is now facing surging infections that are straining hospitals and more than 1,000 people with the virus are dying every week.

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Can covid-19 vaccine takers get discounts on health policy premiums?

Also Read | The great financial crunch: How the pandemic sank Indian statesRakesh Goyal, director, Probus Insurance, said, “In regard to the underwriting process, one-time health check-ups can be offered, or some discounted health check-up coupons can be given. This will help policyholders gain access to quality health check-ups and track their health status.

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Bankruptcy filings resume after a year of pandemic

bankruptcy filings, ending a year-old suspension created to protect firms from the impact of the virus pandemic, people with knowledge of the matter said.The law is in operation after an executive order halting bankruptcy proceedings expired on March 25, said the people, asking not to be identified as the matter is not public. The move follows a court ruling earlier this week that mandated banks to resume classifying bad debt, unwinding another pandemic-era measure.The two steps together will give investors a clearer sense of the impact of the pandemic on the asset quality of local banks.

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Biden vows action on migrants as he defends border policy

WASHINGTON – The U.S. will take steps to more quickly move hundreds of migrant children and teens out of cramped detention facilities along the Southwest border, President Joe Biden said. He was pushing back against suggestions that his administration's policies are responsible for the rising number of people seeking to enter the country.

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Students, parents ask Quebec to reverse back-to-school policy as EMSB defies government

Quebec teachers’ unions call for vaccines as high school students set to return to class full time Gurreri wonders why students are being asked to return when the current model is working, and just over two months of classes remain before the summer break.Both schools have more than 1,000 students. With all of them there in person, some say social distancing will be nearly impossible.“There are crammed-up hallways, crammed-up cafeteria and bathrooms — it is very difficult to social distance.

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Nova Scotia says no change to border policy as N.B. reports increased COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 on Thursday.But in light of New Brunswick’s Edmundston region moving back to the red alert level of COVID-19 recovery after 30 new COVID-19 case were reported, Nova Scotia released a statement to the media asking Nova Scotians to avoid non-essential travel to the city of Edmundston and surrounding communities. N.B.

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Air Canada set to resume flights in Atlantic Canada June 1

COVID-19 pandemic.Pascale Dery, Air Canada’s media relations director for Quebec, Eastern Canada and Europe, said flights to and from Fredericton, Moncton, Saint John, Charlottetown and Sydney, N.S., are all part of the airline’s summer schedule beginning June 1. Air Canada says it will resume some flights to sun destinations beginning in May The five locations have had little or no commercial air travel at their airports for several months as pandemic-related restrictions led to a reduction in air travel of more than 90 per cent in much of Canada.In an email to Global News, Dery said most routes will travel to and from Montreal and Toronto beginning with a single daily flight.

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Fresh surge in covid-19 cases poses a challenge to tourism, airline recovery

covid-19 cases in the country and the discovery of double mutant variant of the coronavirus, poses a challenge to India's tourism, travel and aviation sector that was at the cusp of a recovery.Hotel and airline bookings have declined 10-15% in the last 10 days or so, which can be attributed to the rising number of infections and resulting restrictions imposed by some states, said a senior official of a National Capital Region or NCR-based online travel company.Also Read | Lessons from India’s tryst with lockdown"Though, this is not a big threat at the moment, the recovery of the sector could be impacted if the number of cases keeps on rising," the person said requesting anonymity.For the week ended on 20 March, the average number of

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Airlines may ban 15 passengers for 3 months for not following COVID-19 norms

NEW DELHI : Fifteen passengers, who were found violating COVID-19 norms on domestic flights of three airlines this month, may be banned for three months by the carriers, senior officials of aviation regulator DGCA said on Wednesday.The DGCA had on March 13 asked airlines to de-board passengers who do not wear their masks "properly" despite repeated warnings and take action against them as per its rules.The regulator allows carriers to ban passengers (putting them on no-fly list) for three to 24 months for not following the rules.Senior DGCA officials said nine passengers of IndiGo, four of Alliance Air and two passengers of AirAsia India were found violating COVID-19 norms between March 15 and March 23.While most of these passengers refused

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The Latest: Big Ten schools will set own attendance policies

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Irdai extends validity of short term covid specific health insurance policies till Sept 30

covid 19 pandemic, the regulator has now extended the validity for sale and renewal of short term covid specific health insurance policies. The policies issued under these guidelines will now remain valid till 30 September 2021.The policies are commonly known as Corona Kavach and Corona Rakshak policies.

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‘It’s a major concern,’ experts warn airline industry may not be ready for rush of travelers

Canada’s major airlines suspended some service to sun destinations in January as a way to secure the border from variants of concern. That measure is set to lift in May, but some experts say not only is it too soon to travel – but the airline industry might not be ready for it.

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Ontario school boards struggle to find supply teachers amid rise in absences due to COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic, at least one Toronto-area board said it has had to ask administrators, specialty teachers and lunch supervisors to step in.The Toronto Catholic District school board said those measures have been taken on some occasions to “ensure the safety of students and staff” as it strives to broaden its pool of occasional, or supply, teachers.“Like many boards across the province, the TCDSB continues to bolster its occasional teacher roster but struggles to address challenges associated with increased teacher absences, greater incidences of short-term sick leave, and an unwillingness of available occasional teachers to accept daily jobs during this pandemic,” the board said in a statement Tuesday.

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Quebec high schools resume full-time, in-person learning on Monday, even in red zones

Parents of schoolchildren in parts of Montreal being moved to front of COVID-19 vaccination line Legault warned, however, that the next few weeks will be decisive in keeping a third wave of the virus at bay.“We’re resisting against the variants and the third wave but the battle is not over, we have to stay careful as we accelerate vaccination,” he said.Legault said the province will hit the one million mark in terms of people vaccinated in the province later in the day on Tuesday.He credited the province’s strategy of delaying the second dose of the vaccine for allowing a greater proportion of the population to be protected against the virus.Legault said Quebec is heading towards its goal of administering 50,000 doses a day and emphasized

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US colleges tout hopes for return to new normal this fall

TOLEDO, Ohio – Colleges throughout the U.S. are assuring students that the fall semester will bring a return to in-person classes, intramural sports and mostly full dormitories. But those promises come with asterisks.

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Tax saving shouldn't be only reason to buy health policy: Ajay Shah

Mint finds out more on the scenario from Ajay Shah, director and head-retail sales, Care Health Insurance:What is the response of buyers when asked to avail of health cover?In India, most people buy health insurance not due to conscious motivation to cover their health, but as a basic input for financial planning or they end-up following someone in their family or social circle who have recently opted for a health cover.Also Read | Six wrong calls on post-covid economyAccording to Statista, a German company specializing in market and consumer data, health insurance penetration increased to around 35% in 2018.

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China steps up COVID-19 vaccination, considers differentiated visa policies

BEIJING : China has accelerated its vaccinations against COVID-19, administering 10 million doses in around a week, and is considering varied visa policies based on vaccination and virus conditions in different countries, officials said on Sunday.The country had administered 74.96 million vaccine doses as of Saturday, health commission spokesman Mi Feng told a news briefing. That is up from 64.98 million as of March 14.China aims to vaccinate 40% of its 1.4 billion people by the middle of the year, according to state media and a top health adviser.

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Toronto FC resumes full training after shutdown due to COVID-19 outbreak

Toronto FC has resumed full training after an outbreak of COVID-19 that sent players and staff home to self-isolate.The MLS club had nine positive cases, according to figures released by the city of Toronto. That prompted the team to shut down its north Toronto training centre.Its last full training session was March 3.

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United Airlines flight diverted after man allegedly bites passenger’s ear, police say

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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations resume in Europe after blood-clot scare

WARSAW, Poland - Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot on Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is safe following brief suspensions that cast doubt on a vaccine that is critical to ending the coronavirus pandemic.The British and French prime ministers rolled up their sleeves, as did a handful of other senior politicians across the continent where inoculation drives have repeatedly stumbled and several countries are now re-imposing lockdowns as infections rise in many places.Britain is a notable exception: The outbreak there has receded, and the country has been widely praised for its vaccination campaign, though this week it announced that it, too, would be hit by supply shortages.

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HSE to resume using AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine today

The Health Service Executive has said that it will resume administering the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in modest amounts in acute hospital settings today.

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VIDEO: Biden stumbles multiple times, falls as he boards Air Force One

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden stumbled twice and fell as he climbed the stairs to Air Force One on Friday morning at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The president was climbing the stairs to the presidential plane before tripping, gathering himself, and then tripping again and falling.Biden then got up and made it the rest of the way up to the jet before saluting the military officers at the bottom of the stairs.Get breaking news alerts in the FOX5NY News app. Download for FREE!The White House said that Biden "is doing 100% fine" after his fall.White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield updated his condition in a Twitter post. Advertisement"I know folks have seen that President Biden slipped on his way up the stairs to AF1, but

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