Long Bets is a philanthropic website built with funds from Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. Anyone can post a prediction and a challenge the winner donates the money to charity. Lord Rees, the prominent British astronomer, placed a bet in 2017 that “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six-month period starting no later than December 31, 2020.” His friend and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker took up the wager and lost. All bets are off as the pandemic cuts widening fatal swathe in India because of no trials and many errors.
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The Delhi High Court Tuesday rapped the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for apathy as well as lack of swiftness and alacrity in responding to requests by students and faculty to set up COVID care and oxygen production facilities on the campus which has seen 3-fold rise in infections in three weeks. Justice Prathiba M Singh said that considering the rigour of the current pandemic, the JNU administration ought to have reacted with swiftness and alacrity to the several correspondence sent to it from April 13 onwards. You got the first letter on April 13 and today is May 11. Almost a month has gone by, but there has been no response from the Vice Chancellor or the administration. There is complete apathy. I am shocked, Justice Singh said.
Bhubaneswar: The need for Vaccination is high in 2021 across the world because of the Covid 19 pandemic that has detached us all physically by its lethality. Vaccination at this point of time has become the only hope that would bring back the society
India To Start Receiving Consignments Of Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 Vaccine From Today
by Swarajya Staff - May 1, 2021 02:35 AM
Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V
Amid the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, the country will start receiving consignments of Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses from 1 May onwards.
India is expected to receive 5 million doses of the vaccine by June.
According to media reports, around 150,000 to 200,000 doses of the vaccine will be delivered by early May and another 3 million doses by May end.
After Covishield and Covaxin, Sputnik V, developed by Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, is the third Covid-19 vaccine to get emergency use approval in India.
India to receive Sputnik V vaccine consignments from May 1
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Fri, Apr 30 2021 21:57 IST |
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RDIF sets target of 50m doses a month for Sputnik in India.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, April 30 : Amid the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, the country will start receiving consignments of Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses from May 1 onwards.
India is expected to receive 5 million doses of the vaccine by June.
According to media reports, around 150,000 to 200,000 doses of the vaccine will be delivered by early May and another 3 million doses by May end.
After Covishield and Covaxin, Sputnik V, developed by Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, is the third Covid-19 vaccine to get emergency use approval in India.