Top IT Firms Start Covid-19 Vaccination Camps for Employees

Indian IT services firms, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Tech Mahindra are organising vaccination camps across India to inoculate employees and their family members against Covid-19.

The government has opened up Covid vaccinations for all adults, effective May 1. On Wednesday, Serum Institute of India fixed its Covid vaccine Covishield’s price at Rs 600 for private hospitals and Rs 400 for state-run hospitals.

TCS is planning to give Covid-19 vaccines to employees and their family members through direct partnership with suppliers.

Infosys has tied up with over 130 hospitals where its employees and their immediate families can get vaccinated. This is in addition to vaccination camps on its campus.

Wipro has partnered with Connect and Heal (CNH), a tech-enabled, online-to-offline delivery platform specialising in primary care and urgent response services to bring Covid vaccination support to employees.

Tech Mahindra has ‘Mhealthy,’ a comprehensive Covid-19 risk-screening test that ensures every individual stepping into its premises is healthy, thereby making it a safer place to work.

WordPress to Block Google’s Ad Tracking Technology

WordPress, an open-source content management system (CMS) is blocking Google’s new ad tracking technology. The company said that it sees the system as a security concern.

Google is currently testing the feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). FLoC will replace third-party cookies. It uses an algorithm that will place people with similar browsing histories in a group for targeted advertising. The feature is yet to be completely rolled out.

However, a number of browsers like Mozilla, Brave, Vivaldi and DuckDuckGo have opted out of FLoC. Meanwhile, WordPress has also released four lines of code that can help developers block FLoC for their websites. This would impact Google’s plan significantly as WordPress powers 41 percent of the web.