Forget ‘play’, the machine needs to be scrapped
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May 13, 2021 01:15 IST
The Centre must revisit its vaccine policy by procuring 100% doses which can then be equitably disbursed to States
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The Centre must revisit its vaccine policy by procuring 100% doses which can then be equitably disbursed to States
In its affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on May 9 in the suo motu COVID-19 management case, the Union of India avers, in the words of Justice Holmes, that “play must be allowed for the joints of the machine”. Arguably, in this instance, such play is irrelevant because the machine needs to be scrapped. The Centre must revisit its policy by procuring 100% of the vaccine doses which can then be equitably disbursed to the State governments.
India s Covaxin Neutralizes UK Variant of Covid by Hannah Joy on January 28, 2021 at 12:39 PM
Covaxin can now neutralize UK variants of SARS-CoV-2 effectively by reducing the possibility of mutant virus escape. Covaxin is developed Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad, India.
According to the research paper carried by bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology, the study has dispelled the uncertainty of possible neutralization escape.
A group of researchers from Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR), National Institute of Virology, Pune and Bharat Biotech performed the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT50) using sera collected from the 26 recipients of BBV152/Covaxin against hCoV-19/India/20203522 (UK-variant) and hCoV27 19/India/2020Q111 (heterologous strain).