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Bill Gates Says That Vaccine Production For Covid-19 Will Probably Not Start In September.

Bill Gates Says That Vaccine Production For Covid-19 Will Probably Not Start In September.

"If everything went perfectly, we'd be in scale manufacturing within a year, It could be as long as two years." Says Bill Gates on Covid-19 Vaccine. The Billionaire Man is funding production of the seven most promising ideas for a vaccine as he refocuses his philanthropic work on the deadly coronavirus. The world's second-richest man said vaccine production will probably not start in September, as some have said.
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Garbage Found Lying Around Inside A Covid-19 Hospital In UP.

Garbage Found Lying Around Inside A Covid-19 Hospital In UP.

A patient admitted at the state-run Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Etawah's Saifai village on Saturday shot a 2 minutes video where he shows garbage piled up in the hospital corridor and washrooms. The hospital is in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district. A man is heard asking in the clip as he records the video."Coronavirus patients should be kept separately, however, these norms (for social distancing) are not being followed here. How will the patients recover?" The hospital was inspected by a senior government official on Sunday after the video was widely shared on social media sparking criticism about…
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Court Case Reveals That India Had Overpaid For Covid-19 Test Kits To China.

Court Case Reveals That India Had Overpaid For Covid-19 Test Kits To China.

On April 16, the Indian Ambassador to China, Vikram Misri, tweeted that 650,000 kits, including Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits had been despatched to India as The Government of India through the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had ordered five lakh rapid antibody test kits from Chinese firm Wondfo on March 27. The COVID-19 test kits were sold to the Indian Government at an inflated price by an Indian distributor named Real Metabolics, it has emerged from a legal dispute between the distributor and the importer that went to the Delhi High Court.
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Porsche Driver Made To Do Sit-Ups Amid Lockdown.

Porsche Driver Made To Do Sit-Ups Amid Lockdown.

A young 20-year-old driver had been seen in a yellow two-seater car on the open roads, which are free of traffic due to the lockdown, where some members of the city's security council spotted him.The city security council has retired personnel from the Army, paramilitary and the police as volunteers who are attached with police stations across Indore.The council members flagged down the car and asked the driver why he was out on the road amid the lockdown. The man is seen without a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Second Hospital Has Been Sealed In Delhi In 24 Hours.

Second Hospital Has Been Sealed In Delhi In 24 Hours.

In Delhi a second hospital has been sealed in 24 hours after 44 staff including doctors were found infected with coronavirus, as said by the officials. Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital in north-west Delhi's Jahangirpuri will remain sealed until building has been completely sanitised, officials said. Patients who are already receiving critical care are still being looked after but no new patients will be taken in, the hospital said.The latest sealing comes less than 24 hours after a nurse at Hindu Rao Hospital who had been working at different sections of the building for the last two weeks tested positive…
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Nishabdham director Hemant Madhukar shares a behind the scene PHOTO of Anushka Shetty

Nishabdham director Hemant Madhukar shares a behind the scene PHOTO of Anushka Shetty

The south director Hemant Madhukar shared a stunning behind the scene picture of the Baahubali actress Anushka Shetty from their upcoming film Nishabdham. The director shared Anushka Shetty's picture on his Twitter account stating that she wanted to handle the camera during the shoot of Nishabdham. Now, the southern film, Nishabdham will feature Anushka Shetty as the lead actor alongside R Madhavan. The Baahubali actress essays a mute artist named Sakshi in the Hemant Madhukar directorial. This film will also feature Arjun Reddy actress Shalini Pandey in a key role. The first look poster of the south flick caught the…
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Growth Rate Of Covid-19 Is Reducing.

Growth Rate Of Covid-19 Is Reducing.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country increased by six per cent during a 24-hour period starting 8 am Friday, the government said this morning. This is the lowest daily growth rate recorded since India crossed 100 positive coronavirus cases last month. The data was revealed at a high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.The GoM was also told the death rate is around 3.1 per cent and the recovery rate is over 20 per cent, "which is comparatively better than other countries and may be taken as a positive effect…
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Donald Trump’s Idea On Covid-19 Cure Gets Viral.

Donald Trump’s Idea On Covid-19 Cure Gets Viral.

An observation by a top US official that the coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight led President Donald Trump to suggest a method to fight COVID-19 - injecting patients with disinfectants.It took no time for President Trump's comments at the White House briefing to spread on social media, with scientists and researchers criticising him.William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that US government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer. "Our most striking…
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US Scientists Say That Sunlight Destroys Coronavirus Quickly.

US Scientists Say That Sunlight Destroys Coronavirus Quickly.

The new coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight, according to new research announced by a senior US official on Thursday, though the study has not yet been made public and awaits external evaluation.William Bryan, science and technology advisor to the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters at the White House that government scientists had found ultraviolet rays had a potent impact on the pathogen, offering hope that its spread may ease over the summer."Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air,"…
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India Defying Global Coronavirus Trend With It’s Lower Death Rates.

India Defying Global Coronavirus Trend With It’s Lower Death Rates.

Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related deaths.All over the world, mortality rates are being scrutinised to determine the true impact of the coronavirus, which emerged in China late last year and is known to have infected more than 2.7 million people globally, with nearly 190,000 deaths.While death rates in some countries have risen sharply in recent weeks, in India the opposite seems to be happening, at least in some places.
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