Normal And Abnormal

(Continued from 29.06.20) Six Indian companies are working on coronavirus vaccine. A vaccine for coronavirus is unlikely to be ready for mass use before 2021, says a top Indian scientist.  " While Zydus Cadila is working on two vaccines, Serum Institute, Biological E, Bharat Biotech, Indian Immunologicals and Mynvax are developing one vaccine each," Gagandeep Kang, executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, told PTI. But it is a complicated process with many stages of testing and many challenges, explained experts. A vaccine for the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, may not take 10 years that other vaccines do but it could be at least a year before it is proven safe, effective, and made widely available, they said. "Vaccine development is a lengthy process which often takes years, with many challenges," said E Sreekumar, chief scientific officer at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Kerala. "The ...

China  has finally committed the worst trespass in it's recent history. It was not for acquiring more land for it's people but to stop the growth of its most trusted neighbour. From the very day Xi Jinping became the Chinese Premier i.e on 14 March 2013, he couldn't maintain a smooth relationship with India though we wanted it. He wanted to make more Tibets around India to impose his muzzle power on us. His greed made him to dream to sit on the head of the world. He was thinking about removing US from the super power seat and placing China on it. The faint relation he made with President Donald Trump was misconstrued by him. Now he is trying to bring India forcefully to his fold. The super greed of the Chinese President to rule the world did not allow him to learn more about these two great nations, India and America. Finally this greed has brought him to the verge of eradication.  The newly acquired friends, Pakistan and Nepal shall be of no use for the surviva...

(Continued from yesterday) There  are good number of assumptions and presumptions about vaccine for Covid 19. Some say it is so close but some other say it is too far. Let us continue with our mask, soap and distancing. On the vaccine front, American biotech firm Moderna was one of the first companies in the world to react to the Covid 19 outbreak back in January. It began working on its mRNA-1273 vaccine. The potential Covid 19 vaccine since entered clinical trials, received a funding boost of close to $500m and been fast tracked through regulatory protocols by the US FDA. P fizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca moved to the forefront of the race to find a coronavirus vaccine. Two major pharma companies, P fizer from the US and BioNTech from Germany, announced to join hands to co-develop and distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine. Development of mRNA vaccine programme, BNT162, was expected to enter clinical testing in April 2020. Inovio looks to be an...

Many  companies across the world are working on vaccines that could be used as a preventive measure against Covid19. Some others are working on antiviral drugs against this disease. "People are looking into whether existing antivirals might work or whether new drugs could be developed to try to tackle the virus," said Dr Bruce Y Lee, a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. It can take a decade or more for a new compound to go from initial discovery to the market place. Many compounds never even make it that far. Scientists from UK identified three stages of infection at which the virus could be targeted; keeping the virus from entering our cells, preventing it from replicating inside the cells, and minimising the damage that the virus does to the organs. Remdesivir -   Developed a decade ago,  found in research with MERS, a disease caused by a different coronavirus, showed that the drug blocked the virus from replicating. ...

There is no reason to believe that China has any inborn or hereditary enmity with India. Does India harm China in the recent past in any manner? The answer would be negative. Why, then, China irritates India continuously? It seems that the Chinese themselves have created a cause for this; dispute the boarder line. They are successfully playing this game from 1962. So far they have encroached over thousands of sq km area of ours. Why we have allowed this is a matter of debate. China seems to be toying with the idea of sitting on the head of the world for quite sometime. They know that it is tough to overtake US and to certain extent Russia too. They must be having there own assessment and planning for this. They must also be aware of that arms alone cannot bring this dream to be a reality; something more is needed. In order to achieve this, primarily they should muster the support of as many countries as possible. China knows well that they cannot do this. To become a super ...

While  the whole world is looking to India to sell their products and services, we ourselves fail to find the needs of our own people. We have enough natural resources and a huge man power, yet we call ourselves poor. We go around the world to find opportunities because we cannot create opportunities. We don't have political leadership who can direct us prosperity. For instance, let us take the state of Kerala. Over 33 million people with highest literacy of the country. Huge number of professionally qualified youth. One of the best infrastructure of the country and adequate energy and communication network. Connected with road, rail, water and air with four international airports. One of the finest tourist destination of the world with wide variety of art forms, large range of food diversity and unbound natural beauty Despite all the necessary ingredients to become rich, most of the people are reluctant to perspire within the state but outside the state are willing to ...

During  the recent speeches our Prime Minister has indicated that the coronavirus epidemic has opened a good number of opportunities for our economic growth. The country as a whole or the states independently have not taken this matter seriously. The new investors who have diverted their destination from China and those have establishments there are looking for new locations. Though India can provide ideal ground for them for safe investments, so far  no move could be seen from any state to canvas the opportunity. The Central Government also has not announced any policy to bag these investments. States like Kerala are facing problem to meet the day to day expenses. Huge amounts have already been drawn as credit from various sources. In the history of Kerala this credit is always mounting, never came down by a rupee in the progress chart. Still every successive government is looking for agumenting the credit amount. Alternative revenue is liquor, lottery, taxes etc....