Wuhan Coronavirus Thread

[sajobajo]

Damn it’s like 6000 deaths a day in India

Thats scary, and a trailer for us as to what might happen if we are not careful in the coming days. Why are they calling it a 4th wave? Shouldnt it be third?

 

[notaname]

One case of Nipah virus in Kerala central team rushed.

(See second last tweet)

 

[Kumata]

We need a separate ministry of Kerala.... All virus start from Kerala..

 

[sajobajo]

We need a separate ministry of Kerala.... All virus start from Kerala..

Umm. its there. Its called the State Government? Arent they "rockstar" and "model" ?

 

[Dessert Storm]

Days required for administering 10 million doses

New Zealand : 124 days
Sweden : 92 days
United Kingdom : 56 days
Germany : 45 days
Italy : 38 days
Australia : 36 days

INDIA: 1 day

WaPo/BBC sleeping

MeghUpdates ® 🚨

Days required for administering 10 million doses New Zealand : 124 days Sweden : 92 days United Kingdom : 56 days Germany : 45 days Italy : 38 days Australia : 36 days INDIA: 1 day WaPo/BBC sleeping ...

www.kooapp.com

 

[Maharaj samudragupt]

Days required for administering 10 million doses

New Zealand : 124 days
Sweden : 92 days
United Kingdom : 56 days
Germany : 45 days
Italy : 38 days
Australia : 36 days

INDIA: 1 day

WaPo/BBC sleeping

MeghUpdates ® 🚨

Days required for administering 10 million doses New Zealand : 124 days Sweden : 92 days United Kingdom : 56 days Germany : 45 days Italy : 38 days Australia : 36 days INDIA: 1 day WaPo/BBC sleeping ...

www.kooapp.com

The elephant is charging, sir.
The fake lions of England are no match for us , that's why ignorance

 

[Cheran]

Had a look at the front page of CNN. Absolutely nothing about Covid. Democrat regime is very good at controlling such news via their media cell.

Meanwhile

They really need to work on their medical infrastructure rather than wasting money on regime change wars, foreign bases & space missions.

 

[sajobajo]

We should really hold our celebrations about "Crushing" covid for now. The Chinese Lab Engineered Bio-Weapon virus seems to be following a six month wane and sharp-sharper-sharpest uptick cycle everywhere.
Pointing out WaPo, PeePeeCee et al hypocrisy is fine, but we should just continue to hunker down and continue our good work. Too much of jingo posts will just give the BIF their next round of ammo if/when the next wave is upon us.

 

[here2where]

Umm. its there. Its called the State Government? Arent they "rockstar" and "model" ?

See the pattern - all KL outbreaks happen in northern muzzie (malabar) or southern xtian ex-travancore districts - highly mobile, affluent air-travellers / gelf workers bringing in and spreading diseases (nipah usually traces back to malaysia and pigs - favourite destination of muzzies from the southern states).

Not sure how many know this but KL was branded a "model"/"heavenly" (read "gods own country") state as early as 1870s by brits after seeing the travancore princely state's functioning.

And KL stopped being a "model" state somewhere in the late 1960s once gelf/remittance economy boomed. After that it was all about riding the ad-wave.

 

[Kumata]

For hindi challenged folks - HP have completed first dose for it;s entire population of eligible candidates

 

[sajobajo]

Yet another 1 crore+ day.

 

[Dessert Storm]

New Mu COVID variant that can 'evade vaccine immunity' found in 49 US states

 

[sajobajo]

New Mu COVID variant that can 'evade vaccine immunity' found in 49 US states

Would be poetic justice ?

 

[Indrajit]

OPINION: When The West Crumbled Under Covid-19, Why Was India Judged So Harshly?

When The West Crumbled Under Covid-19, Why Was India Judged So Harshly?

Last month, when New York got a new governor, her first order of business was to add 12,000 previously unreported Covid-19 deaths to the official tally. How could 12,000 deaths go unreported in the most advanced city in the world? What were the elites at the New York Times doing? Maybe they were on a mission to shame the poorest states in India. They were on a mission to put our misery on show before the whole world.

Let us first take stock of what is happening in the United States. The country is witnessing the fourth or fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. The seven-day moving average of the deaths in the US is now above 1,500 per day. Adjusted for population, that is the equivalent of over 6,000 deaths per day in India. Away from the statistics, what does this mean for ordinary Americans on a more human level? Hospitals and funeral homes are overflowing with bodies. Many have rented out temporary cooling units to keep the bodies safe until they can figure out what to do with them.

On flagship American media such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, there is barely a squeak about this. The job of bringing out the real reports is left to smaller, local outlets, who do not have the resources to put together the national picture. And above all, there is no questioning of the leadership of President Biden. The American elite have not just abandoned their allies in Afghanistan. They have abandoned their own people at home.

The pandemic has been hard on every country. The US has recorded close to 6.5 lakh deaths, which would be equivalent to 26 lakh deaths in India. So far, France and the UK have recorded 1.15 lakh deaths and 1.33 lakh deaths. To put those numbers in perspective in terms of population, that is like 23-27 lakh deaths in India. Did I mention that the French healthcare system has been ranked number one by the World Health Organization?

But in April-May, when India went through the worst of times, ghastly images of burning funeral pyres were put up for the world to see. Even in times of war, the media has standards of civilized behaviour when reporting on bodies. But all these rules were shredded when covering the second wave in India, so that the “truth” could be “exposed”. What were they trying to expose, exactly? India has nowhere close to the kind of resources that Western nations have. The latter are approximately 20 times richer on a per capita basis.

Even within India, they put their focus on the poorest, most backward states, such as Uttar Pradesh or Bihar. In a situation where New York has to stash dead bodies in freezer trucks and leave them for over a year, what is the administration in rural Uttar Pradesh supposed to do? Yes, they were overwhelmed. And the fact that the Western media relished those images shows that they are the worst people in the world.

We get it. The Western liberal media does not like Narendra Modi. At least not as much as they love the newly “liberal” Taliban, which has now won all hearts by doing a press conference. But did the Western media really need to fly drones over burning funeral pyres? Was there no other way to take revenge against PM Modi for winning the 2019 general election?

If the Western media wanted to “speak truth to power” in India, they crawled before power back home. The governor of New York ordered Covid patients into nursing homes, where it spread like wildfire and 15,000 elderly people died. These deaths were then covered up, and would have remained so if one of the governor’s aides had not let the information slip out on tape several months later in February 2021. They specifically admitted to hiding the data from the people so that it would not damage their party in the November 2020 presidential election. A massive cover up over several months with thousands of victims. And nobody in the liberal media ever caught wind of the story, least of all the New York Times. They must have been busy pointing fingers at Uttar Pradesh.

In fact, the liberal media kept such a tight lid on the coronavirus horrors of New York that the state came to be seen as a model of pandemic management. So amazing was the publicity that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo decided to write a book about his leadership. He made at least five million dollars from it. The liberal media was so taken by him that they came to describe themselves as “Cuomosexuals”. Night after night, they fawned over the governor’s dating and sex life. As it turned out, Governor Cuomo was also a notorious sexual harasser, who had assaulted at least 11 women over the years, including at least one inside his official residence.

That’s New York, the world’s richest city and home of the world’s most powerful newspaper. They speak truth to power, but only in the poorest states in India.

Of course, the Western liberal media would be nothing without its local collaborators in India. These are the people who did the actual legwork. They set up shop in front of piles of firewood. They flew the drones over burning funeral pyres. And after that they must have spent some time sorting the images and selecting the most sensational ones. These local collaborators then wrote columns for global news outlets, hopefully making at least a couple of dollars a word. With the conversion rate, it must have seemed like a lot. They even put some of their images for sale online. I am genuinely curious to know who bought them.

It gets worse when you realise what the Western liberal media was actually up to. They didn’t just want to defame India. The media elites also wanted common people in the West to feel better about the devastation back home. After all, they had to pack the dead bodies of New Yorkers into freezer trucks and leave them there. So their media told them that Indians have it a lot worse. That way, common folks in the West would feel less angry. The ruling political and media elite would prevail.

This hurts. Because we Indians never wish for bad things to happen to any other nation or its people. It’s just not how we think. Why would they put our misery on show? When we hope for a better tomorrow, we wish for prosperity and good health for all. It’s the Indian way of thinking, rooted in our ancient Sanskrit proverbs.

The same goes for our vaccination programme, which was abused, ridiculed and heckled by the same Western media elites. Yes, we did have some problems getting started, but look at us now. Regularly vaccinating over 10 million people daily, without a hitch. Each certificate has its own unique identifier, recorded in a central database along with date and vaccine batch number. Which other democratic nation can manage such logistics on such a large scale with such efficiency? It would make any nation proud. The hecklers should be hiding in shame, but they are not.

What can we Indians do in the interim? We cannot stop engaging with Western media, but we can keep their judgments at arm’s length. And remember that we have as much of a right to judge them as they have a right to judge us.

Abhishek Banerjee is a mathematician, columnist and author.

 

[avknight1408]

70 crore doses done. Last 10 crore doses came in just 13 days.

 

[Indrajit]

Public advised to defer plans to visit Kerala till October-end: Karnataka govt

www.deccanherald.com

Public advised to defer plans to visit Kerala till October-end: Karnataka govt, Similar advice has been given to all administrators or owners of hospitals

ln view of the prevailing Covid-19 situation in Kerala, Karnataka government on Tuesday advised public to defer their plans to visit the neighbouring state till the end of October,if there is no emergency or urgency, with a view to avoid third wave of Covid-19 and in larger interest of public health......
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The government in an advisory has also advised all administrators or principals of the educational, nursing, paramedical institutions to instruct their wards who have not yet returned to Karnataka from Kerala, to defer or postpone their return till the end of October.
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Noting that in view of the prevailing Covid-19 situation in Kerala, special measures are already in place for arrivals from there, the state health department said, it has been observed that students and employees arriving from the neighbouring state though bringing negative RT-PCR reports, they are testing Covid positive during repeat tests and number of such cases are considerably high in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi.

 

[sorcerer]

DCGI approves advanced trials for Biological E. Limited’s COVID- 19 vaccine--India Science Wire

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Hyderabad-based Biological E. Limited for conducting Phase III comparator safety and immunogenicity trial in adults of its CORBEVAX™ vaccine against COVID-19 after Subject Expert Committee’s (SEC) review of Phase I and II clinical trials data.


This follows the approval given to the company on September 1 to initiate the Phase II/III Study to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity, tolerability, and immunogenicity of the vaccine in children and adolescents. The candidate vaccine is an RBD protein subunit vaccine.


Welcoming the approval, Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Chairman of its public sector undertaking, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), said “Department of Biotechnology through Mission COVID Suraksha launched under Atma Nirbhar Bharat package 3.0 being implemented by BIRAC, is committed to the development of safe and efficacious COVID-19 vaccines. We look forward to the clinical development of candidate CORBEVAX™ for paediatric and adults.”

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Hyderabad-based Biological E. Limited for conducting Phase III comparator safety and immunogenicity trial in adults of its CORBEVAX™ vaccine against COVID-19 after Subject Expert Committee’s (SEC) review of Phase I and II clinical trials data.

Ms Mahima Datla, Managing Director, Biological E. Limited, said-``We are delighted to receive these significant approvals from the DCGI. These approvals encourage our organisation to move forward and successfully produce our COVID-19 vaccine to meet the vaccination needs. We are grateful to BIRAC for their support and we are enthused that these approvals would help support our subsequent filings with WHO as well. We appreciate and acknowledge the contribution of all our collaborators for their continued support in this endeavour.’’


The Department of Biotechnology has taken several initiatives to increase investments in research & development (R&D) and the manufacture of COVID-19 Vaccines. The establishment of the Mission COVID Suraksha Program is one such endeavour for COVID-19 vaccine development to reinforce and streamline available resources towards accelerated vaccine development, leading to bringing in a safe, efficacious, affordable, and accessible COVID-19 Vaccine for the citizens at the earliest with a target of Atmanirbhar Bharat.


The Department of Biotechnology and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council have supported Biological E.’s COVID-19 Vaccine candidate from the preclinical stage. In addition to receiving financial assistance under Mission COVID Suraksha, this vaccine candidate has also obtained financial support under COVID-19 Research Consortia through the National Biopharma Mission of BIRAC.


India Science Wire

 

[Kumata]

One dose of Covid vaccine 96.6% effective in preventing death, second dose 97.5%: Govt data

With 58 per cent of the eligible adult population in the country having received the first dose, and 18 per cent fully vaccinated, the data suggests that a significant proportion of the adult population has protection against severe disease and death.

indianexpress.com

With 58 per cent of the eligible adult population in the country having received the first dose, and 18 per cent fully vaccinated, the data suggests that a significant proportion of the adult population has protection against severe disease and death.

The four-month data of the national vaccination drive, released by the health ministry on Thursday, showed that Covid-19 vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing mortality after the first dose stood at 96.6 per cent – reaffirming that vaccines offer near-total protection against serious disease and death.

The real-time data of Covid-19 vaccination between April 18 and August 15, showed the vaccine effectiveness in preventing deaths further enhanced after the second dose – and stood at an impressive 97.5 per cent.
Releasing the preliminary data on the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing death, DG ICMR Dr. Balram Bhargava, Thursday said the health ministry will soon be providing real-time vaccine tracker data that has been synergised using the CoWIN platform and the national Covid-19 testing database of the ICMR.

 

[another_armchair]

I would still say exercise maximum caution and practice CAB. At least wear a three ply mask outdoors even if you have taken both doses.

 

[sorcerer]

CoWIN launches new API: KYC-VS: Know Your Customer’s/Client’s Vaccination Status

Over 72 crore vaccine doses have been administered since the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 was flagged off on January 16 this year by Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. To provide a proof of vaccination for each of these individuals, Co-WIN is already issuing a digitally verifiable certificate. This certificate can be saved on a digital device (smartphone, tablet, laptop etc.) or stored in Digi Locker from where it can be digitally shared as and when required as a proof of vaccination. Similarly, at entry points where such certificate is required (e.g., in malls, office complex, public events etc.), it may be shown in both the digital and physical forms.


However, there may be instances where an entity does not need to see the certificate in full and would just need to know whether an individual has been vaccinated or not. A few of such possible use cases could be as follows:

2. An enterprise/employer may like to know the vaccination status of its employees to resume functions in offices, workplaces etc.

ii) The Railways may want to get the status of vaccination of the passengers who are getting their seats reserved in the trains.


iii) Airlines may want to get the status of vaccination of the passengers who are booking their flight tickets, and/or airports may only want to allow vaccinated passengers to pass through.


iv) Hotels may want to know the vaccination status of the residents at the time they are checking into the hotel, or at the time of making online bookings.


As the socio-economic activities are being gradually revived while maintaining everyone’s safety, there is a need for a way to digitally convey the status of individuals’ vaccination to entities with whom they may be engaging with for any or all reasons, as employees, passengers, residents etc.


Therefore, there is a need to enable an Aadhaar like authentication service for the status of vaccination through Co-WIN. To take care of these cases and others that may come up, Co-WIN has developed a new API called ‘Know Your Customer’s/Client’s Vaccination Status’ or KYC-VS. To use this API, an individual needs to enter his/her mobile number and name. Thereafter, they will get an OTP which they have to enter. In return, Co-WIN will send a response to the verifying entity on the individual’s status of vaccination, which will be as follows –


0 - Person is not vaccinated


1 - Person is partially vaccinated


2 - Person is fully vaccinated


This response will be digitally signed and can be shared instantly with the verifying entity. A real-life example could be when at the time of booking a railway ticket, an individual will input the necessary details for buying the ticket and if required, the concerned entity will also get the vaccination status in the same transaction, with the due consent of the individual.


KYC-VS will facilitate all such use cases and more. It is both consent-based and privacy preserving. Additionally, in order to facilitate quick integration and faster adoption, the Co-WIN Team has prepared a webpage with the API, which may be embedded in any system. This will allow for a seamless integration with any system in no time.


Besides the use cases pointed out, this service may be utilized by any service provider, private or public, for whom verifying an individual’s vaccination status is critical for facilitating a service requested.