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shaun wrote:

pankajs wrote:We initially had imported German test kit. Then we had news of indigenous test kit development and approval. We also got some supplies from SoKo. Now China test kits are expected to arrive.

https://twitter.com/sidhant/status/1249651193514569729

Why are kits still being imported from China?
1. Was ordered when Indian kit was no were in the picture.
2. Indian labs are having difficulties scaling up.
3. Our testing needs are going to explode and Indian supplies may not be sufficient.

Anyone close to the Indian company may be able to check with them (Mylab pune) on their order pipeline.

Mylab pune have tied up with some pharma companies for funding in order to scaling up , may be visibility will be by end of this month

Saurav Jha @SJha1618

As it turns out ICMR has invited bids for some 45 lakh tests, with this being a combined number for both RT-PCR combo kits & rapid antibody tests. Companies with only ICMR-NIV approval are also eligible, so I am expecting recently qualified domestic players to secure orders.

Anantha Krishnan M @writetake

Trials of patients inside AEP were undertaken on board Advance Light Helicopter (ALH) and Dornier aircraft of Indian Navy at SNC and successfully completed on April 8.

It is made of Aluminum, Nitrile Rubber and Perspex. The highlight of the pod is that it weighs only 32 kg and has incurred a manufacturing cost of ₹50000/- which is only 0.1% of cost of an imported equivalent item (Rs 59Lakhs).

12 AEPs are planned for distribution across Southern, Western, Eastern and Andaman and Nicobar Naval commands. This will vastly increase the Indian Navy's abilities in its efforts towards aiding #Covind19 prevention across the nation.

Avarachan wrote: A simple seven-day training would be enough to impart skills needed to conduct these tests.

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.businesstraveller.com/busin ... nationals/
Indian government launches portal for stranded foreign nationals
1 Apr 2020 by Nisha Shroff
On March 31, 2020, the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, launched Stranded in India – a web portal that helps reach out to foreign nationals who are stuck in India due to the lockdown.
The official release states, “Stranded in India is a portal to disseminate information regarding the services that can be availed by foreign tourists stuck far away from their homeland. The portal aims to act as a support network for foreign tourists stuck in various parts of the country.”
The portal, strandedinindia.com lists Covid-19 helpline numbers or call-centres that the foreign tourists reach out to for help; and covers comprehensive information around the Ministry of External Affairs control centre, along with contact numbers.
Additionally, it gives details on state-based/regional tourism support infrastructure. This unique portal also helps ones in need of further information and connect foreign tourists to concerned authorities.
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Gautam

vinod wrote:An Update from UK.
90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom.
They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of them below 40.

vinod wrote:An Update from UK.
90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom.
They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of them below 40.

sudarshan wrote:

vinod wrote:An Update from UK.
90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom.
They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of them below 40.

How big a sample is this? The big danger with this disease seems to be the second week crash. Are they all past that time frame as well? And did they test positive, or are they going by symptoms to diagnose? TIA for the response.

Bart S wrote:

Mollick.R wrote:SDREs are copying the Chinis, Hain jee ???

https://twitter.com/meenakshisharan/sta ... 1103706112

This is mosquito fogging. Idiots on social media make fake news out anything and waste people's time.

syam wrote:Another migrant crisis being manufactured in Mumbai right now. Coinciding with second lock down announcement.

Amit Malviya@amitmalviya
This Facebook post by a leading Nephrologist at the Bellevue Clinic in Kolkata has set the cat among the pegions. He has accused the Mamata Banerjee government of suppressing tests and data, forcing doctors to not write proper diagnosis and worse... Read.
https://facebook.com/606742860/posts/10 ... 17861/?d=n

DrRatnadip wrote:https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/ch ... 2rJ1BJJPNo

Incidence like this will have widespread negative impact on morale of doctors and healthcare workers..

vinod wrote:An Update from UK.
90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom.
They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of them below 40.

Primus wrote:

vinod wrote:An Update from UK.
90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom.
They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of them below 40.

Must be a different virus.

Our local community hospitals are struggling. In one, several ER staff have died. Another one has 360 of 400 beds filled with COVID, four refrigerated tractor-trailers are parked outside, each capable of holding 50 bodies. Several of my colleagues are seriously ill, one just discharged after four weeks in the hospital, he is in his early 50s. The husband of an ex-employee dropped dead within a day, was being 'observed' at home.

A cousin of mine, also a physician, lives down south, admitted to the hospital with bilateral pneumonia on day 18, still running fevers and on O2.

This is not a joke at all.

Mort Walker wrote:In much of India, summer months are beginning. In Delhi, day time temperatures are reaching 38C and there is enough UV (my guess is between 75-80 W/m^2 UV for at least 3 hours) from sunlight to kill the virus on outdoor surfaces. Spraying and bleaching may not be necessary after the end of this week.

Disinfectant UV lamps are 40 W for at least 20 minutes in their application.

The scale and range of China’s current annual investment in foreign-propaganda activities is so great that it would be impossible to come up with an accurate total budget. International reports have cited figures ranging from US$7 billion to $10 billion, but these numbers include only the subsidies given to media targeted at non-Chinese foreigners. The Chinese government funds propaganda activities in a variety of ways. In 1992, China imposed a 3 percent “propaganda-industry tax” (xuanchuan shiye fei) on all profit-making enterprises in the public sphere. The funds are used to subsidize propaganda activities that are not commercially profitable. In addition to national-level propaganda efforts, each Chinese province has a budget for promoting itself to the outside world.

Suresh S wrote:Primusji just returned from Emergency room.I have not seen anything like this it is not like war . It is war. My heartfelt appreciation for all the people who are working in the ER. My guess unfortunately many of these people are going to end up dead, I am no exception.There are probably close to 100 patients in the ER and almost all of them have the disease. There is no room to even walk in there. There is death everywhere. Sure it is just like flu, bloody morons.

India must do everything in it,s power to get out of it, anything. This has the potential to end all our dreams, no less.I hate to say this but I give the present govt in Delhi a F for their performance in handling the peacefuls. Right under their collective noses we have shaheenbag, delhi riots and now these Tablighi morons. India will be very lucky to get out of this , only the govt,s swift action and summer can prevent this from destroying everything.

Do not believe the number of deaths from the govt in the US, it is way higher than being shown as many are false negatives tests but actually are covid-19, nursing home deaths are many but may not be counted.

I will make a prediction from what I am seeing on the ground. The days of communist regime in China as it stands today are numbered .President Xi WILL not survive this and communist party in it,s present form will not survive. Change may come either from inside china in a bloody coup. If not there is HIGH likelihood of a war between United states and china over this.

I will say this if there is a war of which there is high likelihood India should join the USA to finish off the commies and free Tibet. There will not be another chance like this.

In a new count released Tuesday, 3,778 more deaths were added to the rolls — driving up the previously recorded total of 6,589 by more than half. Now, the city records 10,367 deaths related to the virus.
Previously, the city had not counted people who died at home without getting tested for the coronavirus, or who died in nursing homes or at hospitals, but did not have a confirmed positive test result. Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted last week that the true number of deaths was far higher than the official tally, and said the city would start including presumed coronavirus cases in its data.

Lisa wrote:

vinod wrote:An Update from UK.
90% of the NHS workers who I'm friends with or have acquainted with, have all been infected with this virus. They have all recovered in about 1 weeks's time. Fever and body ache was the most common symptom.
They all are relatively healthy people and aged less than 50 and most of them below 40.

I know of locals who have had the infection. All are well now. One of the recovered ones is almost 90 years old. None went to hospital and like you said, done in a week.

Santosh wrote:

Lisa wrote: I know of locals who have had the infection. All are well now. One of the recovered ones is almost 90 years old. None went to hospital and like you said, done in a week.

So why is the story vastly different in US than in UK? Based on what Suresh ji said the picture in US hospitals is very very grim.

tandav wrote:Reports of migrant workers in Bandra station was due to them thinking lockdown is lifted and they can go home. Announcement of extending lockdown being announced only 1 day before end of lockdown should have been planned better.

News did not percolate and created this massive crowd. Will very likely result in cases jumping up in Mumbai. More and more reports are coming that states are not reporting the truth and fudging numbers to look good in short term.

Defence Production India @DefProdnIndia

@OFB_India units in UP & Tamil Nadu get NABL nod to test fabric for manufacturing of coveralls in fight against COVID-19. With this, another test facility has been created in South India and the first in North India.

@rajnathsingh

@shripadynaik

@drajaykumar_ias

@SpokespersonMoD

putnanja wrote:Given what Primus and Suresh is saying, the death count in China should be at least in hundreds of thousands, if not in millions. Given that Wuhan mayor said millions left the city before lockdown was imposed, all of them travelling all over China should have resulted in millions of infected folks and lot more death than China reported. It's hard to believe US & Europe have more deaths than China