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India to airlift 220 tonnes of essential medical cargo from China over next 3 days: Puri
India will airlift 220 tonnes of essential medical cargo from China over next three days, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday.
The National Carrier, Air India, has lifted about 300 tonnes of essential medical cargo so far this month through the China-India aerobridge, the minister said on Twitter.
‘It is planned that Air India along with SpiceJet and Blue Dart will airlift another 220 tonnes of this critical cargo in the next three days,’ he said.
Jab tak crisis hai tab tak Chinese ke sab bhai rahenge …once the pandemic gets over, then see the difference!
BMC Flip-Flop Puts A Kandivli Housing Society On The Edge
24 hours after releasing senior citizen COVID-19 patient saying she has tested negative, BMC officials whisk her away from home saying her test was positive, leaving her neighbours a worried lot now.
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/bmc-flip-flop-...
21 employees of Navi Mumbai IT company test positive
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus...
Good news from Mumbai’s worst-hit part: Nine containment zones de-contained
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cove...
Jaslok likely to resume all services from today
GILEAD ANTIVIRAL DRUG REMDESIVIR FLOPS IN FIRST TRIAL – FT
CHINA, HARBIN CITY 10M PEOPLE ON LOCKDOWN AFTER 87-YEAR-OLD MAN TESTED POSTIVE AND INFECTED 78 PEOPLE, WITH 55 CONFIRMED
With No Ambulance Available, Woman Forced To Walk 15 Km To Quarantine Centre
Woman says hospital she was taken to didn’t take her samples although she had symptoms, told her to return
https://www.mid-day.com/articles/with-no-ambula...
Maha makes COVID-19 test, treatment free
The Maharashtra government has decided to make coronavirus tests and treatment in medical and dental colleges under the state’s Medical Education Department free and people should not avoid treatment thinking about high costs, Minister Amit Deshmukh said on Sunday.
Deshmukh, guardian minister of Latur district, said the decision was taken as Maharashtra has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
Coronavirus patient commits suicide in Karnataka
A 50-year old coronavirus patient allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a hospital building in Bengaluru on Monday, police said. The patient jumped from the trauma ward of the Victoria Hospital, a senior police official said. According to hospital sources, the man, who was admitted with acute respiratory problem on Friday, was also suffering from kidney problems. This morning, he jumped off the fifth floor of the building, they said. Further investigations are on, police said.— PTI
That is so sad. May his soul RIP.
Also, should we expect the lock down to be extended again?
MAHARASHTRA, DELHI, TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA PRADESH, TELANGANA, WEST BENGAL, ODISHA SEEK LOCKDOWN EXTENSION–OFFICIAL
3 Beijing activists goes missing in China after preserving virus articles online
How many such cases going unnoticed in every state? When the governments claim they have lot higher testing capacity how about test the symptotic cases at least?
source: https://twitter.com/priyakamal/status/125430770...
Tweet1:
5 days ago, i developed fever. it was low at first. 99 degrees. i had a bad headache that day. i popped a Dolo and kept working.
Tweet2:
Day 2 the fever increased. hit 100.5; headaches were worse; and i was feeling tired all the time. I decided to self isolate just in case. i contacted a doc who advised i start taking dolo and contact helpline if i dont improve.
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Sad & frightening. Had earlier posted people are turned away from hospitals in different parts of country.
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Update on tweet I shared yesterday night:
https://twitter.com/priyakamal/status/125503514...
I never thought that i would love “negative” word so much. I got my covid test results back and it is negative- my symptoms however remain very severe- and i have now been referred to another govt hospital for further investigations. Thank u all again.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/covid-1...
COVID-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus, Chinese biotech reports
KARNATAKA GOVT: KICK STARTS REVIVAL PLAN. MOST OF THE SHOPS IN THE NON-CONTAINMENT AREAS EXCEPT SHOPPING MALLS TO OPEN.
SPAIN AIMS TO LIFT LOCKDOWN WITHIN NEXT EIGHT WEEKS
INDIA IS SAID TO KEEP INTERNATIONAL BORDERS CLOSED UNTIL JULY
GOOGLE CEO TELLS EMPLOYEES RETURN TO OFFICE WON’T HAPPEN UNTIL AT LEAST JUNE 1 – CNBC
Quarantined rail employee ends life, test report negative
A 55-year-old railway employee kept in quarantine at a medical college in Firozabad allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday, police said.
The COVID-19 report of the man has been found negative, District Magistrate Chandra Vijay Singh said.
The railway employee was sent to quarantine on April 20 after his senior had tested positive for coronavirus.
His body was found hanging in the quarantine facility at F H Medical College and Hospital, Gyanendra Kumar, SHO, Tundla said.
The body has been sent to the district hospital for postmortem, he added.
The man’s samples were earlier taken on April 23 for testing, but the test could not be conducted.
Another sample was taken for testing on Tuesday, SDM, Tundla, K P Singh Tomer said. — PTI
COVID-19 Positive, Then Negative, Positive Again, Then Dead
When Raj Gupta received a phone call from the nodal COVID-19 hospital in Kolkata to say an ambulance was on its way to collect his father, the iron merchant was stunned. Just 24 hours earlier, the same hospital had discharged his 68-year-old father, Om Prakash, declaring that he was not infected with coronavirus.
The phone call made the shocking revelation that the hospital had messed up – Om Prakash had in fact tested positive.
China moves military vessels, downs fishing vessels & occupies all the disputed territories in South China sea & names them.
Peru crosses India in total cases while India’s testing gets halted due to lack of kits past 2 days 
Coronavirus vaccine that works on monkeys could be ready by September This Year…
Originally, it was expected that a vaccine would take around 12-18 months to be created and distributed out to the public. But as the coronavirus continues to crumble the world economy, there is a strong sense of urgency in getting that vaccine out quicker than the originally planned time frame. Scientists around the world are trying to fast track that process as much as possible, and researchers at the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research at Oxford University are making some great progress in that regard.
According to a report by The New York Times, researchers at the Jenner institute will have tested its vaccine on more than 6,000 people by the end of May, and if they find that the vaccine is effective “the first few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September”. In the report by The New York Times, Oxford Professor Sarah Gilbert said that she is “80 per cent confident” that the vaccine will prove effective against COVID-19.
Just last week, the vaccine went into a Phase 1 clinical trial that had 1,100 participants. In May, the vaccine will enter Phase 2 and Phase 3, adding more than 5,000 more people to the trial.
The vaccine was also tested on six rhesus monkeys that were exposed to the coronavirus, and 28 days later, they proved to be healthy.
Top US health advisor Dr Fauci backed & funded controversial Wuhan lab for risky Coronavirus research…
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NEW DELHI: An organization backed by top US health advisor Dr Anthony Fauci had funded Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology for research on coronavirus,claimed a report published by the globally respected US week…
In 2019, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with the backing of Fauci-led National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), committed $3.7 million over six years for research on bat coronaviruses in China, according to a report in Newsweek.
The research also included gain of function work, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans…
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Hum toh samajh rahe theyy ke saara kasoor China ka hain par now pata chal raha hain ke, USA itself backed & funded China to “build/manipulate” the Corona virus…
Khud hi virus ko develop karne ke liye paise do phir khud hi vaccine nikalo…
WOWWWWWW….
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Maha’s 1st COVID patient on plasma therapy dies
A 53-year-old male patient, the first to undergo plasma therapy in Maharashtra passed away on 29th April, Dr Ravishankar, CEO Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai says.
The Union health ministry has maintained that plasma therapy for treatment of coronavirus patients is at an experimental stage and it has the potential to cause life-threatening complications.
The comments by the ministry came in the midst of hope that plasma therapy could provide a possible cure from the coronavirus infection.
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“There are currently more than 30 companies around the world racing to develop a vaccine for the illness, which has killed tens of thousands of people.
In wider Europe, the Netherlands is reported to be recruiting people to trial the BCG vaccine – which is already administered to many schoolchildren to protect them from tuberculosis.
A company in Germany, CureVac, says it is preparing for human trials on its mRNA-based vaccine to begin this summer.
This is a similar timing reported for scientists at Imperial College London, who have also developed a vaccine using RNA.
Italian startup Takis Biotech estimates it will begin testing its DNA-developed vaccine later in the autumn.
In a joint declaration released by the World Health Organization, scientists around the world working to find a vaccine have acknowledged the importance but say it may take time.
It said: "We are scientists, physicians, funders and manufacturers who have come together as part of an international collaboration, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), to help speed the availability of a vaccine against COVID-19.
While a vaccine for general use takes time to develop, a vaccine may ultimately be instrumental in controlling this worldwide pandemic."