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hanumadu wrote:Kanika Kapoor tests negative at last.
She was first reported positive for the virus on march 20 and she had symptoms for 4 days before that.
It took at least 18 days for the virus to clear her system. If we add the incubation period, its probably more like 23 to 25 days.
she still should be quarantined for 14 days and fed with rotten bananas ..
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vijayk wrote:
hanumadu wrote:Kanika Kapoor tests negative at last.
She was first reported positive for the virus on march 20 and she had symptoms for 4 days before that.
It took at least 18 days for the virus to clear her system. If we add the incubation period, its probably more like 23 to 25 days.
she still should be quarantined for 14 days and fed with rotten bananas ..
14-day quarantine is standard protocol after discharge too.
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Deans wrote: We have ramped up testing from 1000 to 10,000 /day in just 2 weeks. Private sector test kits are starting to make a big difference in the test numbers.
I'm not too concerned with the increased number of positive cases (it was 2.5% before testing of the TJ crowd). The tests in the last 2 days were largely for the TJ attendees - where the rate of those testing positive was bound to be higher than the general population.
Saar, after 15th March we tested about 54000 samples. Current known number for TJ cluster is 22000 in contract tracing. So we have tested >30000 samples other than TJ related cases, between 26 March and Today. Which is a number higher than total tests done till 26th March.

Impact of private kits is difficult to judge from the news items I am seeing. Until now orders were lagging. Many private labs had not received kits. MH govt even stopped from taking samples because they did not have kits to conduct tests. At this time the ramp up was started already. On 2nd April end total tests done in Pvt labs were slightly over 2000 with 816 tests done on 2nd April.

Few things are unclear -

- What happened to the 1M RTPCR kits ICMR ordered from US (from what I know from following all Pressers, the number of kits ICMR stocked was at 0.6M, I did not see any reference to any more deliveries).
- What happened to 1M kits requested from WHO.?
- What happened to 1M (later reduced to 0.5M) Fast test kits then ICMR issued request for quotation..? This was like a week ago.
- How many kits we could import among the approved list..?
- KL govt wanted to buy antibody kits from abroad. Not sure if they got it.
- Given first AB fast kits related advisory was published on website on 2 April, did we already start using them...? Today there is an refined one published with proper protocol.
- How many tests are happening on the SARI/ILI/Atypical Pneumonia cases under the surveillance testing.?
- How many individuals we have tested..? Given many, especially the under-treatment patients undergo multiple tests. And as we have more and more cases, quantum of these tests will go on increasing. (Some journo asked question on this today, hopefully we will get data on this tomorrow).
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shaun wrote:Testing net being expended

https://icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files ... O_Labs.pdf
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I think, in addition to above protocol we need a Random sampling based surveillance test compelling on asymptomatic people, at least in the containment zones which are marked correctly, to gauge the presence of any Asymptomatic patients and the spread of the disease. It sure looks like some of the areas, particularly of those which defied the lock-down completely and could have had seeding from ME travelers or TJ easily.

Going by the Bhilwada case, where the whole district was put under full containment after a major threat of large scale outbreak, out of 24L total population, they screened each and everyone of them, more than 18 thousand were found symptomatic with 26 odd confirmed cases (good news is no news cases in 4-5 days), we can see that just symptomatic patients' number is going to be quite large if we have to put Cities like Mumbai under containment (a very real possibility as of now). Testing all symptomatic patients as per above protocol using AB kits is quite possible. But screening individually will be impractical, especially certain areas which will not co-operate with the health workers. In addition, Currently we can use the opportunity of lock-down to gauge asymptomatic transmission in such places like Dharavi in Mumbai, before if can start spreading even faster after lock-down is lifted. If we find any signs of asymptomatic transmission in any high risk areas, we can isolate those areas not itself and start more aggressive containment efforts there, possibly using Central Police forces helping local Police.
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Update from TN:
Tamil Nadu reported two Covid-19 deaths and 74 new cases of Coronavirus on Saturday, 73 of which were related to the mid-March Tablighi Jamaat conference in Delhi. The State has witnessed three deaths so far.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 985779.cms

Atleast in TN there seems to be no other significant spread. Surveillance testing has been started in smaller pockets.
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Jyoti CNC from GJ created a ventilator in only 10 days, costs 1L only. They have tested it now. The company is donating 1000 ventilators to GJ Govt.

I cannot find how good this Ventilator is compared to others, or details of the design - whether its present design which they simplified and localised for easy production or its completely made from scratch.
https://www.bhaskar.com/local/gujarat/n ... l?art=next

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I am really worried that WB Government is not actively tracking down susceptible covid cases from jamatis. The complete absence of cases from muslim dominated districts like Murshidabad, Maldah and Dinajpur indicates that they are simply not testing there. Muslim dominated pockets of Kolkata also see low compliance to lockdown and rather low screening.
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Trump says there have been great progress with hydroxycloroquine. He asks India to release hydroxycloroquine orders to the US. The FDA has said that its still in the testing process with hydroxycloroquine for its effectiveness.
@W7VOA
After call today with @narendramodi
, #India is "giving serious consideration" to releasing the hold it put on a US order for hydroxychloroquine, says @POTUS
, who explains the anti-malaria drug will go into the national strategic stockpile for treating #COIVD19 patients.
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1246537621167374349
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Rahul M wrote:I am really worried that WB Government is not actively tracking down susceptible covid cases from jamatis. The complete absence of cases from muslim dominated districts like Murshidabad, Maldah and Dinajpur indicates that they are simply not testing there. Muslim dominated pockets of Kolkata also see low compliance to lockdown and rather low screening.
After 2 days interval they published some reports , the total number of test is very very low , keeping in mind the number of people working in kerela , the large percentage of peacefuls . Didi is in self assessment and attestation mode.
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If FDA wont give approval for whatever reasons, in interests of world health safety, India should not ship the order for the drugs to be out in a stockpile.

It can be used to save real lives in real world. Not for ego of petty bureaucrats in US.
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There could be a quid pro quo (Trump hates it). That would be to ask USA to send the Abbott's rapid test kits. Trump said these can be used at site.
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Just saw some news on how, for example UK deaths are announced 3-4 days after the patients have actually died. I guess data collection and informing the patient's loved ones induces the lag.

So the real worldwide deaths is already much higher than publicly known...

It has now become a mathematical exercise..
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Delhi’s Tablighi Jamaat meet sparks Covid-19 fears in IAF
An Indian Air Force sergeant, who had visited Nizamuddin while the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was on last month, has been put under quarantine as a precautionary measure amid the Covid-19 pandemic, IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Indranil Nandi told Hindustan Times on Saturday.
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Bengal seems to have publicly known 53 cases and 6 death. The highest death rate to positive case in the country...
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Gerard wrote:Delhi’s Tablighi Jamaat meet sparks Covid-19 fears in IAF
An Indian Air Force sergeant, who had visited Nizamuddin while the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was on last month, has been put under quarantine as a precautionary measure amid the Covid-19 pandemic, IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Indranil Nandi told Hindustan Times on Saturday.
Read on twitter that GoI/Delhi is doing some aggressive contact tracing by calling up people who have been near the place, by using their mobile positional history.

Similar methods used by Kerala as well.

Get mobile position history of a positive person. Then compare this to positional history of everyone who was around that place, when the positive person moved. Call them up and check for symptoms.

A very useful tool.
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ramana wrote:If FDA wont give approval for whatever reasons, in interests of world health safety, India should not ship the order for the drugs to be out in a stockpile.

It can be used to save real lives in real world. Not for ego of petty bureaucrats in US.
One positive thing to come out of all this tragedy is Trump and co (Kushner and others) wealth is evaporating pretty fast. They are heavily leveraged in real estate, restaurants, travel and leisure.
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ramana wrote:If FDA wont give approval for whatever reasons, in interests of world health safety, India should not ship the order for the drugs to be out in a stockpile.

It can be used to save real lives in real world. Not for ego of petty bureaucrats in US.
Official FDA Release (a week old) :
Based upon limited in-vitro and anecdotal clinical data in case series, chloroquine phosphate and
hydroxychloroquine sulfate are currently recommended for treatment of hospitalized COVID-19
patients in several countries, and a number of national guidelines report incorporating
recommendations regarding use of chloroquine phosphate or hydroxychloroquine sulfate in the
setting of COVID-19. FDA encourages the conduct and participation in randomized controlled
clinical trials that may produce evidence concerning the effectiveness of these products in
treating COVID-19. FDA is issuing this EUA to facilitate the availability of chloroquine
phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate during the COVID-19 pandemic to treat patients for
whom a clinical trial is not available, or participation is not feasible.
Having concluded that the criteria for issuance of this authorization under 564(c) of the Act are
met, I am authorizing the emergency use of chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine
sulfate, as described in the Scope of Authorization section of this letter (Section II) for treatment
of COVID-19 when clinical trials are not available, or participation is not feasible, subject to the
terms of this authorization
https://www.fda.gov/media/136534/download

The reason the drug goes in a federal stockpile is so that it can be distributed to where and when it is needed. Otherwise, richer states will scoop up orders and may hold on to them in larger numbers than otherwise required because of of a central stockpile.

The notion that "bureaucrats" are holding up the supply of a wonder drug, that Trump wants everyone to have,has no basis in reality though it has been very funny (in a very sad way) to see how some of the politics around this has been playing out and completely twisting what is actually happening on the ground and with people who focus on this for a living.

This is the official FDA Fact Sheet on Hydroxychloroquine sulfate that families of COVID-19 positive patients can use as they along with their doctors decide whether to use this particular therapy.
Hydroxychloroquine sulfate is experimental because we do not know if it works for COVID-19.
It is not approved by FDA for the treatment of COVID-19, but emergency use has been
authorized for adults and adolescents
who weigh 50 kg (110 pounds) or more and are
hospitalized with COVID-19 if a clinical trial is not available or you are not able to participate in
a clinical trial. There is limited information known about the safety and effectiveness (whether
this will make you better) of using hydroxychloroquine sulfate for hospitalized patients with
COVID-19
Same is the case of EMA. Here's is their ruling -
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two medicines currently authorised for malaria and certain
autoimmune diseases, are being investigated worldwide for their potential to treat coronavirus disease
(COVID-19). However, efficacy in treating COVID-19 is yet to be shown in studies.

It is very important that patients and healthcare professionals only use chloroquine and
hydroxychloroquine for their authorised uses or as part of clinical trials or national emergency use
programmes for the treatment of COVID-19.


Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can have serious side effects, especially at high doses or
when combined with other medicines. They must not be used without a prescription and without
supervision by a doctor; prescriptions should not be given outside their authorised uses except in the
setting of a clinical trial or nationally agreed protocols.
Large clinical trials are under way to generate the robust data needed to establish the efficacy and
safety of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19. EMA welcomes these
trials, which will enable authorities to give reliable advice based on solid evidence to healthcare
professionals and patients.
Despite all the political coverage that Hydroxychloroquine sulfate has received it is not the only therapy that is considered promising. Others are already into RCT's (as is it) while others are being rushed into trials. But somehow a partisan few in the US (perhaps it is like this elsewhere as well) seem to have grabbed onto it and are playing amateur doctors and researchers. Here in the US, Fox News seems to have found an inner calling in promoting this drug, after spending quite a bit of time claiming that COVID-19 is nothing more than a flu etc.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases ... r-covid-19

One potential negative consequence of the unwarranted political attention Hydroxychloroquine sulfate is receiving is that it may receive overwhelmingly large resources while depriving resources from other therapies which may ultimately prove to be better. Hope this doesn't happen but we cannot rule this out given the elevated political and general public attention to its wonders.
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John wrote:
ramana wrote:If FDA wont give approval for whatever reasons, in interests of world health safety, India should not ship the order for the drugs to be out in a stockpile.

It can be used to save real lives in real world. Not for ego of petty bureaucrats in US.
One positive thing to come out of all this tragedy is Trump and co (Kushner and others) wealth is evaporating pretty fast. They are heavily leveraged in real estate, restaurants, travel and leisure.
How does that help us?
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Rahul M wrote:I am really worried that WB Government is not actively tracking down susceptible covid cases from jamatis. The complete absence of cases from muslim dominated districts like Murshidabad, Maldah and Dinajpur indicates that they are simply not testing there. Muslim dominated pockets of Kolkata also see low compliance to lockdown and rather low screening.

3 days back, the search had started in WB for 72 guys from the TJ group getting into WB before the state going radio silent.

https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/wes ... d0c5d6902c

Considering 422 cases of 485 TN cases are TJ related, every day delayed potentially increases the risk in WB.

I wish some lawyer would file an RTI case in every state to publish testing results like TN everyday night ( About 10 parameters are published every day ). For example 90k people in TN have been isolated, yesterday alone 5k tests have been done out of which 4k have been negative etc.
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Karan M wrote:
John wrote: One positive thing to come out of all this tragedy is Trump and co (Kushner and others) wealth is evaporating pretty fast. They are heavily leveraged in real estate, restaurants, travel and leisure.
How does that help us?
Quite the opposite as his fortune starts dwindling more likely Trump will try to lift the lockdown and pressure Scotland and other countries were his assets are located to do the same.
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Kaivalya wrote:
Rahul M wrote:I am really worried that WB Government is not actively tracking down susceptible covid cases from jamatis. The complete absence of cases from muslim dominated districts like Murshidabad, Maldah and Dinajpur indicates that they are simply not testing there. Muslim dominated pockets of Kolkata also see low compliance to lockdown and rather low screening.

3 days back, the search had started in WB for 72 guys from the TJ group getting into WB before the state going radio silent.

https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/wes ... d0c5d6902c

Considering 422 cases of 485 TN cases are TJ related, every day delayed potentially increases the risk in WB.

I wish some lawyer would file an RTI case in every state to publish testing results like TN everyday night ( About 10 parameters are published every day ). For example 90k people in TN have been isolated, yesterday alone 5k tests have been done out of which 4k have been negative etc.
Apologies- there is at least 1 report with claims that everyone has been traced from the published report from the center. Even though the secondary contact number of 224 seems to be very low from initial list of 71

https://m.economictimes.com/news/politi ... 970195.cms
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CNN is also reporting it regarding hijacking of masks

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/europe/c ... index.html
Coronavirus sparks a 'war for masks' in desperate global scramble for protection
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If SITRA have developed the PPE tech,then the huge textile belt from Coimbatore to Tirupur,largest garment manufacturing centre in the country can start making specialised medwear at speed.Some pvt. cos. have already started I'm told.Avadi too has/ used to have a huge uniform manufacturing facility,the OCF ( Ordnance Clothing Factory),which should also be roped in.
A simple way to enhance a home made mask is to put inside other cloth,tissue paper better- disposable,soaked in dettol/ Savlon,etc.You get multi- layers of fabric too. However,footwear and vehicle tyres can carry bugs home as our roads are filthy,people spit more on our roads than anwhere in the world.Tyres and wheel housings must be sanitised too as well as all footwear left outside the house.

This crisis is a huge opportunity to unleash Indian creativity and entrepreneurship in manufacturing medical products which have a massive market worldwide.If Cuba has the best med.care globally and has over 500 docs at this moment fighting cv around the world,we too can export our medware which would br much cheaper too.
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I do not envy the cuban doctors. Doctor,s family is used as collateral to keep them in line when the are working abroad and all the money they make is taken by the cuban govt.The poor doctors can do diddly squat unless they are able to escape with the family or else the family will suffer the consequences
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shaun wrote: Image
Which website is giving this information?
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Karan M wrote:
John wrote: One positive thing to come out of all this tragedy is Trump and co (Kushner and others) wealth is evaporating pretty fast. They are heavily leveraged in real estate, restaurants, travel and leisure.
How does that help us?
Helps (some) Americans saar, so that should be good for us, no? :P
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Rahul M wrote:I am really worried that WB Government is not actively tracking down susceptible covid cases from jamatis.
shaun wrote:After 2 days interval they published some reports , the total number of test is very very low , keeping in mind the number of people working in kerela , the large percentage of peacefuls . Didi is in self assessment and attestation mode.
The Bengalis (and Bangladeshis) working in Kerala may not be an immediate threat of WB. That is because they would not be able to move back till the lock down is lifted. But I am a bit surprised that the effect of Tableeghi Jamaatis have not been reported in WB, which has a sizeable Muslim population. My gut feeling is that WB Govt is playing down the whole thing.

In Kerala, how ever there are now more complaints of the migrant labour is actually hoarding the food & other essential items and then demanding GoKL should give them every thing for free. In two places local people actually exposed the illegal store houses manned by the migrant labour groups. Sympathies to them is also now quickly diminishing.
Suresh S wrote:I do not envy the cuban doctors. Doctor,s family is used as collateral to keep them in line when the are working abroad and all the money they make is taken by the cuban govt.
A poor joke in these bad times was communists in Kerala lecturing the others on the 'noble work' done by Cuban doctors, and about Fidel Castro's future thinking skills. The fellows did not realise that these Cuban doctors are nothing but bonded labour.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/worl ... dates.html
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Warns of ‘a Lot of Death’ While Also Revisiting Easter Sunday Services
President Trump warns of what could be “the toughest week,” while also saying he would like to consider relaxing social distancing rules for Easter services.

Veering from grim warnings to baseless assurances in a single news conference, President Trump on Saturday predicted a surging death toll in what may be “the toughest week” of the coronavirus pandemic before also dispensing unproven medical advice. He suggested again that Americans might be able to congregate for Easter Sunday services.
“There will be a lot of death,” Mr. Trump said at the White House, where he and other American officials depicted some parts of the United States as climbing toward the peaks of their crises, while warning that new hot spots were emerging in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Washington, D.C.
At one point Mr. Trump, who initially set Easter Sunday as a target date for re-opening the country before backing off, said that the holiday would be a particularly “sad” day for Americans prohibited from gathering in large numbers. He said he would again like to consider relaxing social distancing rules for Easter services and that he had told advisers, “maybe we could allow special for churches” gatherings that were possibly outside with “great separation.” “It’s something we should talk about,” he added, but he did not announce any changes to existing federal recommendations. “But somebody did say that, well then you’re sort of opening it up to that little, you know, do we want to take a chance on doing that when we’ve been doing so well?”
More than 8,000 people have died so far in the United States, but the White House has said its projections show that at least 100,000 people could die because of the virus. “The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,” said Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator. “This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe and that means everybody doing the six-feet distancing, washing their hands.”
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This is my opinion about the outbreak after the nizamudin incident

Covid19 will not be eradicated from India. It will linger anonymously in the muslim ghettos/communities across india. The deaths will generally remain unreported and will rarely be attributed to covid19. Occasionally, the virus will infect non-muslims in the surrounding areas and an inquiry will be launched. Disinfectant will be sprayed, some people will be forced into 14 day quarantine and the matter will subside.

This realisation has already come into the imagination of Pakistanis and Muslims in general. This is why imran khan isn't serious and why muslims on tiktok are making those bizarre videos because they understand their own community better than we do and they know that it is a fight they cannot win.
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/leas ... 07265.html
India numbers. Easy to understand estimation model using death rate and simple math. Makes the case for extending curfew for 1 month more. Also the current infection rate and the therefore future death rate does not account for the Nizamuddin/JM cases. Better save this to see what the effect will be in the weeks ahead.
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Kaivalya wrote:
Rahul M wrote:I am really worried that WB Government is not actively tracking down susceptible covid cases from jamatis. The complete absence of cases from muslim dominated districts like Murshidabad, Maldah and Dinajpur indicates that they are simply not testing there. Muslim dominated pockets of Kolkata also see low compliance to lockdown and rather low screening.

3 days back, the search had started in WB for 72 guys from the TJ group getting into WB before the state going radio silent.

https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/wes ... d0c5d6902c

Considering 422 cases of 485 TN cases are TJ related, every day delayed potentially increases the risk in WB.

I wish some lawyer would file an RTI case in every state to publish testing results like TN everyday night ( About 10 parameters are published every day ). For example 90k people in TN have been isolated, yesterday alone 5k tests have been done out of which 4k have been negative etc.
RTI ?
WB govt under Mamata is a truly fascist one, it has jailed doctors for complaining about lack of PPE, deploy police to stop opposition leaders from distributing rations among poor. Even the hindu has put out a report that WB is suppressing numbers, while the govt chamchas in media are claiming that WB's handling of the crisis is the model to be followed.
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This realisation has already come into the imagination of Pakistanis and Muslims in general.
The point is how is organized religion making a mess while non-believers are derided. Indians have demonstrated clear understanding of the situation with patients and better response.
This is why imran khan isn't serious and why muslims on tiktok are making those bizarre videos
How is Indian govt dealing with this better than tfta pakis in their own kabila nation.
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vishvak wrote:The point is how is organized religion [...]
My point was that covid19 will not be eradicated from India

Unless you are willing to revoke citizenship of a few lakh ghetto folks and confiscate/raze their properties and evict them out of your state borders to enforce your will. Else no, covid19 is here to stay.
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does trump care at what cost to India does he want the stocks for the US


from swarajya magazine


Trump Urges PM Modi To Release Hydroxychloroquine Orders Placed By US
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Which website is giving this information?
I collected it from multiple sources but for last 4 days from IMRC reports , problem is they are updating but deleting the past reports.
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Thanks
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chetak wrote:..
Trump Urges PM Modi To Release Hydroxychloroquine Orders Placed By US
Yeah.. why would Indian establishment serve a section of people only (from USA) it's not like they can take away state resources on priority at cost of Indian population and ask details or play blame game for disease from Wuhan China and coming from bats/pengolins or CT wise genetic warfare.
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vishvak wrote:
chetak wrote:..
Trump Urges PM Modi To Release Hydroxychloroquine Orders Placed By US
Yeah.. why would Indian establishment serve a section of people only (from USA) it's not like they can take away state resources on priority at cost of Indian population and ask details or play blame game for disease from Wuhan China and coming from bats/pengolins or CT wise genetic warfare.
I urge govt to mantain sufficient stocks of HCQ.. Yesterday prescribed it to a pt ( for amoebiasis) and pt could not get it anywhere.. Hope before exporting we ensure that we have sufficient quantity for ourself..
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From what I’ve read elsewhere on the net, the fact that the ratio of positive tests isn’t shooting sky high but is actually fluctuating between the 4-6% Daily indicates we don’t have an active epidemic.
shaun wrote:
madhu wrote: Which website is giving this information?
I collected it from multiple sources but for last 4 days from IMRC reports , problem is they are updating but deleting the past reports.
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