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India sets record for 10 Lakhs tests per day of Covid-19

ByRahul Jha

Covid-19 has been infecting people across the globe. However, its spread has slowed down in most of the countries. Globally, as of 12:48 pm CEST on 23rd August 2020, 23,057,288 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 800,906 deaths has been reported to WHO. According to press release on 22nd August by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), India crosses 10+ Lakhs mark for testing of Covid-19 in 24 hours. India has conducted 10, 23, 836 sample…

Russia’s Sputnik V- World’s First Covid-19 Vaccine- Explained
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Russia’s Sputnik V- World’s First Covid-19 Vaccine- Explained

ByRahul Jha

Key Points Russian President Vladimir Putin on 11th August announced the registration of World’s first Covid-19 vaccine, as claimed by Russia. Clinical trials are yet to be completed, despite the fact that the vaccine is already registered. Phase III clinical trials will begin on Wednesday. Putin stated one of his daughters had been vaccinated with it. This vaccine candidate by…

Zydus’s Vaccine for Covid-19 enters Phase II
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Zydus’s Vaccine for Covid-19 enters Phase II

ByRahul Jha

India’s pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila’s Vaccine candidate for Covid-19 named ‘ZyCoV-D’ claimed to have completed Phase I of clinical trials. According to a press release on its website dated on 5th August 2020, the company said to enter Phase II clinical trials from 6th August 2020.  The Phase I of this vaccine candidate began on 15th July 2020 and was administered to healthy…

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Herd immunity and Covid-19 Explained

ByRahul Jha

What is Herd Immunity? Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from an infectious disease, providing a measure of protection to non-immunized individuals in a population, mainly as a result of a large fraction of the population being immune to a particular disease whether through vaccination or recovery from the infection. Herd immunity is also called as…

Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine, The truth?
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Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine, The truth?

ByRahul Jha

Some media channels on Sunday (12th July) reported that Russia’s Sechenov University had completed clinical trials of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), claiming it as the ‘first vaccine in the world to complete human trials for Covid-19.’ We are here to tell you that it’s not true and they misstated it. Sputnik News was one of the media channels…

Zydus’s ZyCov-D | Covid-19 Vaccine candidate Explained
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Zydus’s ZyCov-D | Covid-19 Vaccine candidate Explained

ByRahul Jha

Covid-19 is still spreading at an unprecedented rate. Scientists all around the world are working day and night to develop a vaccine for it. The vaccine candidate was found to be safe and immunogenic in clinical trials.  Antibodies produced after injection was able to completely neutralize the virus. ZyCoV-D uses a non-replicative and non-integrative plasmid….

India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate, COVAXIN Explained
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India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate, COVAXIN Explained

ByRahul Jha

The covid-19 crisis is still going on throughout the world. It has affected over 11 Million people and leaving 527,835 people globally dead as per WHO reports on 5th July 2020. Amid Covid-19 crisis researchers have been working tirelessly for Covid-19 vaccine production. There are more than 200 candidates and only 15 have entered clinical trials globally. In India, there are two…

Your smartphones can detect coronavirus too, here’s how?
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Your smartphones can detect coronavirus too, here’s how?

ByRahul Jha

Scientists from the University of Utah in the U.S. developed a sensor that could be paired with a smartphone and can detect coronavirus. Massood Tabib-Azar, a professor at the University of Utah, electrical and computer engineering, has received a $200,000 National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant to develop a portable and reusable coronavirus sensor. The quarter-sized sensor could…

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NOVEL CORONAVIRUS
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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NOVEL CORONAVIRUS

ByRahul Jha

In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases appeared in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China but the cause was unknown. Scientists suspected something novel, this was not due to the bacteria as previously thought but a novel virus.  WHAT IS CORONAVIRUS? Corona in Latin means crown. Under the electron microscope, the virus capsid or outer layer looks like a…

First Indian antibody detection kit for Coronavirus
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First Indian antibody detection kit for Coronavirus

ByRahul Jha

COVID KAVACH ELISA Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Pune developed the indigenous IgG ELISA test named “COVID KAVACH ELISA” for antibody detection for COVID-19 which is the first Indian antibody detection kit for Coronavirus. Covid-19 continues to spread across the globe, thus, the demand for testing kits is also increasing. India imports most of these diagnostic kits from other countries….