73 days to COVID-19 vaccine; Indians to get free shots

 

India's first Covid vaccine-Serum Institute's 'Covishield'- are going to be commercialised in 73 days. Indians are going to be immunised free under the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) as is that the case with all other vaccines under the programme.

"The government has given us a 'special manufacturing priority license' and fast-tracked the trial protocol processes to get the trials completed in 58 days. By this, the first dosing is happening from today in the final phase (Phase III) and the second dosing will happen after 29 days. the final trial data will be out in another 15 days from the second dosing. By that time, we are planning to commercialise Covishield," a Serum Institute of India (SII) top official exclusively revealed.

Earlier, the third phase trials were expected to require a minimum 7-8 months.

The trial among 1600 volunteers at 17 centres, each with about 100 volunteers, started on Aug 22.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has also said that one among our COVID-19 vaccine candidates is within the third phase of the clinical test . "We are very confident that a vaccine will be developed by end of this year," he said.

The source said the vaccine will belong to Serum Institute, because the company has entered into an exclusive agreement with Astra Zeneca to shop for rights and pay a royalty fee for exclusively selling it in India and 92 other countries. The central government has already indicated to SII that it'll directly procure the vaccines and is getting to immunise Indians for free of charge . Centre has sought 68 crore doses for 130 crore Indian citizens from Serum Institute by June, next year.

For the rest, it's likely to put orders with 'Covaxine' being developed by ICMR and Bharat Biotech and Zydus Cadila's 'ZyCoV-D' if their trials proceed successfully.

Bharat Biotech is yet to point when it might start and finish the trials, though Bharat Biotech's CMD Krishna Ella had said that to make sure safety and efficacy it might not expedite the vaccine with short-cuts.

Serum is beginning to manufacture 6 crore doses per month which can be increased to 10 crore per month by April, 2021. this is often being done by re-engineering its vaccine manufacturing lines that it's spent nearly Rs 200 crore. SII, the most important vaccine maker within the world, features a capacity to form 150 crore doses a year.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has agreed to fund Serum with about $150 million (nearly Rs 1125 crore) to supply and provide around 10 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine for supply to low income countries. which will help SII to scale back the worth to about Rs 250 per dose from over Rs 1,000 per dose, the source said.

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Rhea Chakraborty’s WhatsApp chat with Mahesh Bhatt on day she left Sushant Singh Rajput’s house revealed

Rhea Chakraborty with Mahesh Bhatt and Sushant Singh Rajput. Source: Google.

 Rhea's boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his home on June 14

Transcript of a WhatsApp conversation that actress Rhea Chakraborty apparently had with filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on June 8 is doing the rounds on several websites, television channels and social media.

The chat seems to suggest that she informed him of the very fact that she was leaving her boyfriend, late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, thereon day.

The WhatsApp conversation between Rhea and Bhatt also hints at the very fact that her father might not have been happy about her relationship with Sushant, which Bhatt had advised her against it.

The chat has been doing the rounds since Thursday evening, after it had been first exclusively released on India Today.

According to a screenshot of the chat available with the channel, Rhea messaged to Bhatt and said: "Aisha moves on..sir..with a heavy heart and sense of relief." Aisha was Rhea's name within the 2018 film "Jalebi", co-produced by Mahesh Bhatt.

In the next message, Rhea wrote: "Our last call was a wake up call." The message that followed read: "You are my angel You were then And you are now."

In two separate messages, Bhatt replied: "Dont look back. Make it possible what is inevitable", and "My love to your father. He will be a happy man."

According to screenshots of the chat shared by India Today, Rhea then wrote: "Have found some courage, and what you said about my dad tht day on the phone pushed me to be strong for him. He sends you love and thanks you for always being so special."

Bhatt replied: "You are my child. I feel light".

Rhea then wrote: "Aaaah no words sir. the best emotions i feel i feel for u."

In reply, Bhatt wrote: "Thank u for being brave."

'You've again unclipped my wings, twice in one life is almost God like,” she wrote further along in the conversation.

To this, Rhea stated in separate messages: "Thank you destiny that I met you"; "You are right", "Our path met for this day"; and "Not for a film, but something very different, every word you have said to me Echoes in me and feel a deep impact of your unconditional love".

The report by India Today also stated that Rhea shared emojis of a rainbow and a dancing girl to precise her happiness at various stages of the conversation.

The conversation on WhatApp goes on, with Rhea writing: "I love you my best man"; and "Will make you proud".

Bhatt replied, with emojis of folded hands: "You have. Truly. It takes guts to do what you did. Don't look back."

On Rhea’s birthday on july 1, she received a message from the filmmaker. “I will make you proud,” she wrote to him, to which he replied, “You already have. Truly. I takes guts to do what you did. Don’t look back.”

Rhea's boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his home on june 14. The late actor's family subsequently filed an FIR charging the actress and her family with abetment to suicide among other charges. The CBI has appropriated the investigation of the case.

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The cracks in the earth's magnetic field have increased, broken into two pieces are in danger, said NASA

 

The cracks are getting bigger in the earth's magnetic field. Photo courtesy: NASA.

The cracks in the earth's magnetic field have become even larger. A crack has broken into two pieces. As a result, terrestrial civilizations in the area will have to deal with horrific solar particles, solar radiation, and cosmic rays.

The US space agency NASA has given this news in a recent report. As a result, the International Space Station orbiting through the area could be damaged by critical equipment of various artificial satellites. Telecommunication, electricity connection and navigation system in the area may also be disrupted.

This magnetic field of the Earth surrounds our bluish planet and extends for millions of kilometers in space. Another name for it is 'Geomagnetic Field'. It is this magnetic field that saves us every moment from the scorching solar radiation and the toxic cosmic rays. When solar radiation and cosmic rays arrive, it is this magnetic field of the earth that pushes it away, as far as possible.

From the seventies of the last century, the earth's magnetic field began to weaken. That's when a huge crack appeared in this magnetic field. Its name is 'South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)'. This fissure exists in the Earth's magnetic field over South America and the South Atlantic Ocean.

According to a recent NASA report, the Earth's magnetic field has weakened over the past 50 years. The cracks in the earth's magnetic field over South America and the South Atlantic Ocean have become so large in size that they have even broken in two. Made of two large cracks.

NASA observed, "The cracks in the Earth's magnetic field are gradually increasing towards the west. And the magnetic field in that area is getting weaker and weaker. ”

As a result, NASA has warned that the area is in danger in the coming days. For those who live in the area, the natural magnetic 'shield' to prevent the invasion of solar particles, solar radiation and cosmic rays has become weak enough. As a result, the International Space Station orbiting the Earth through that area could suffer catastrophic damage to vital parts of artificial satellites due to solar radiation and cosmic rays.

Earlier in May, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported that the Earth's magnetic field had weakened by 9 percent in the last 200 years. And in the area of ​​the magnetic field where the crack has grown in size and broken into two pieces, the magnetic field has weakened by 8% in the last 50 years.

Scientists say that the cause of this increase in the Earth's magnetic field is geo-natural. These cracks have formed and are growing because the molten lava flow and the magnetic axis are tilted a little more deep inside the earth. The Earth's magnetic field is also increasing because the North and South Poles of the Earth are not properly north and south respectively.

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When covid vaccines will be ready? Govt reviews progress of trials

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech on Saturday said India has prepared a roadmap to make sure that a COVID-19 vaccine reaches everyone within the shortest possible time

The Indian government on Monday reviewed the progress of the covid vaccines undergoing clinical trials within the country. The domestic pharma giants presented the present status of varied candidate vaccines for COVID-19 to the central government. The National Expert Group on Covid-19 Vaccine Administration on Monday met leading domestic vaccine manufacturers: Serum Institute of India, Pune; Bharat Biotech, Hyderabad; Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad; Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, Pune; and Biological E, Hyderabad.

The meeting was mutually beneficial and productive, the health ministry said.

"It provided the National Expert Group with inputs about the present stage of various candidate vaccines being developed by the indigenous manufacturers as well as their expectations from the Union government."

Three Covid vaccine candidates in India are in several phases of clinical study.

The first is that the inactivated virus vaccine which is that the Bharat Biotech Vaccine being developed together with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Similarly, the second is that the DNA vaccine of pharma giant Zydus Cadila.

The third, may be a recombinant Oxford University vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) which got approval from DCGI to conduct phase 2, 3 clinical study within the nation.

The central government has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Dr VK Paul, member (health) at Niti Aayog, on covid vaccine administration.

The terms of reference of this expert committee are to streamline suitable vaccine selection, how procurement of vaccine are going to be done, how vaccine would be delivered, prioritising groups to whom vaccine has got to be administered.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech on Saturday said India has prepared a roadmap to make sure that a COVID-19 vaccine reaches everyone within the shortest possible time.

He said three vaccine candidates are in several stages of trials within the country.

The prime minister said whenever there's talk about COVID-19, the question that involves everyone's mind is - when will a vaccine be ready.

"I want to tell people, the talent of our scientists is like that of 'rishi munis' and they are working very hard in laboratories. Three vaccines are in various stages of testing. When scientists will give us the green signal, it will be produced on a mass scale and all preparations have been made for it," PM Modi said in address.

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