Author: Dr Anand Mali
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday requesting the Centre to increase its allocation of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) for the state. He also asked for the government to direct Bharat Biotech and ICMR-NIV to transfer the Covaxin manufacturing technology and provide the viral strain to “whoever is interested and capable of manufacturing the vaccine” so that the production could be ramped up. The Chief Minister informed that, “the average count of cases per day over the last seven days stands at 20,300 and as of today we have 1,86,695 active…
Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting a pair of high-rise buildings believed to be housing militants, as Hamas and other armed groups bombarded southern Israel with hundreds of rockets, killing two Israeli civilians and wounding 10 others. In response,Israeli airstrikes toppled most of a massive high-rise building in central Gaza City on Wednesday, in the latest escalation in Israel-Hamas fighting. The collapse was broadcast on Israeli TV channels, with commentators predicting Gaza militants would respond with a rocket barrage.Gaza health officials saying at least 20 people, including nine children, were killed by Israeli air strikes launched after…
Google on Monday said it is testing a new feature in Maps application that enables people to ask about and share local information on the availability of beds and medical oxygen in select locations amid massive coronavirus surge in the country. Google said its teams are focused on three priority areas – ensuring people can access the latest and most authoritative information; amplifying vital safety and vaccination messages; and providing financial backing for affected communities, health authorities and other organisations. “We know that some of the most crucial information people are searching for is the availability of hospital beds and…
Before Jeff Bezos became a multi-billionaire, he used to write product reviews for Amazon and over a period of six years between 2000 and 2006, he reviewed non-fiction books, a novel, a movie, binoculars and even milk. Unearthed by inc.com’s contributing editor Billy Murphy Jr, the old reviews by the world’s richest man are genuine and are given five stars, which is the highest score for a review on the e-commerce platform. Bezos is touted as Amazon`s 78,951,609th-ranked reviewer. “I love milk so much that I’ve been drinking it since the day I was born. I don’t.Think it was Tuscan…
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge spike in the number of COVID-19 cases across the country. The union health ministry stated that the country has registered 3,66,161 new cases over the last 24 hours, on Monday morning. The total count of the number of COVID-19 cases has now gone up to 2,26,62,575. Amidst this time, to a relief to the people, the COVID-19 vaccination drive is taking place across the country. The COVID-19 vaccination drive for the adults between 18 and 44 years of age has started from May 1, 2021. The earlier phases for…
An anti-COVID-19 therapeutic drug developed by DRDO called drug2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) has been given emergency approval by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for Coronavirus patients in the country. The anti-Covid-19 drug was developed by DRDO last year and has undergone three phases of clinical trials between April 2020 and March 2021. The drug was developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of DRDO, in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad,has been found to be effective in controlling the viral growth, resulting in faster recovery of hospitalised patients, DCGI said. According to the report,…
Trump slammed Facebook, Google and Twitter and called them “corrupt”, saying these social media companies “must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process.” Republican former President Donald Trump spent the first full day of his new blog slamming his Republican congressional critics and large social media companies. His attacks bore similarities to his previous “Twitterstorms” during his presidency. On Wednesday, US former commander-in-chief Trump launched his first communication on his own platform ‘From the Desk of Donald Trump.’ The Twitter-like board was added to Trump’s official website ‘Save America’ on…
The US Department of Defence has said it is tracking the Chinese Long March 5B-rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend. The core of the Chinese Long March 5B rocket carried the “core module” of the country’s space station into low Earth orbit last week. But after that mission was complete, the rocket appears to have fallen into an orbit that could see it plunge towards the Earth.Given the object’s orbit, the possible landing points are anywhere in a band of latitudes “a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and…
“The production process for this biologic medicine is very complex and Roche, as one of the largest biologics manufacturers in the world, was selected by its partner Regeneron to expand worldwide production capacity,” Roche said. Roche India on Wednesday announced that the Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) has provided Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for Roche’s antibody cocktail in India for treatment of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The product will be used to treat mild to moderate Covid-19 in adults and paediatric patients (12 years of age or older, weighing at least 40 kg) who are confirmed to be infected…
South Korean video game developer Krafton has announced that the India version of its popular game PUBG will be called Battlegrounds Mobile India. The game, which will be available only in India, will provide a multiplayer gaming experience on the mobile phone. This comes after the original version of the game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile had been banned in India in September following a ban on Chinese apps. – PUBG was published by Chinese internet firm Tencent in India. Following this, PUBG Corporation had said it would no longer authorise the game to Tencent Games in India. Later in November…