Govt fast-tracks nod for vaccine procurement from other countries on emergency basis

 

Govt fast-tracks nod for vaccine

 

* Vaccines authorised by World health Organisation or Vaccine Regulators in US ,Europe , UK and Japan would be granted an emergency use approval in India mandating requirement of post-approval parallel bridging clinical trials

 

* First 100 beneficiaries of such vaccines shall be kept for assessment for 7 daysfor safety outcomes before they are rolled out across the entire country as per reports in the leading newspapers in India

 

* Among the healthcare giants , one of the largest drug manufacturing organisation Pfizer has a production capacity of 2.5 billion doses per annum and almost 1.6 billion confirmed dose purchases . From this one can confer that India has 900 million doses that India could tap into for procurement.

 

* Moderna and Johnson&Johnson , two of the largest drug manufacturers and retailers have also bid in equal terms for the same and in the process have taken in more orders than what could be produced

 

* On 12th April , Govt of India also granted permission permission for restricted emergency use of Russian vaccine Sputnik V

 

* The aforementioned regulatory approvals are intended to increase the availability of the jabs amidst a steep second wave of the infection .

 

* The vaccines can be imported in a ready- to use vial cylinder bottles or in the form of fill and use form

 

Russian made covid-19 vaccine "Sputnik-V" to be used for emergency use in India

Russian made covid-19 vaccine "Sputnik-V" to be used for emergency use in India

 

* Expert panel on drugs and vaccine regulation and adminstration in India has cleared "Sputnik V", Russia's largely used vaccine for circulation within India

 

* The administration has given in to this proposition amidst high concerns over the need to step up Covid-19 vaccine and dosages manufacture and supply within India as there is a wide bridge in demand and supply within India and thus the need for procuring the vaccine for restricted emergency use within India .

 

* The final approval upon this is to be taken by the Drug Controller of India very soon as per reports over some of the major daily newspapers circulated in India

 

* Once this proposal would be approved , Hyderabad based drug manufacturer company "Dr Reddy's Lab" will initially procure the importing license post which it will import from Russian manufacturing company and then it will supply to GOI

( Government of India )

 

* The GOI will procure "Sputnik V" from Dr Reddy's Lab for the national Covid vaccination programme but this will be in small quantities in the initial period.

 

* Stocks of the same are expected to rise by June-July 2021 as per published reports in the newspapers

 

* The Central govt expects that "Sputnik V" could be seen as a major welcome addition to "Covishield" and "Covaxin" which

are India's inhouse conceptualised, developed , manufactured and served vaccine for the citizens as well as for export to interested countries . This is expected to improve the lurking gap between the prevalent supply and demand gap as per the current trend

 

* It is however expected that with increased production of Covaxin , India's dependency over other countries for vaccine will fall and India might be able to cater to its citizens needs and welfare as per the dictats of AtmaNirbhar Bharat

Odisha : Travel details mandatory for air and train passengers without -ve reports

 

Odisha : Travel details mandatory for air and train passengers without -ve reports

 

* All Train and Air passengers without RT-PCR negative reports or vaccination reports or vaccination certificates would have to furnish their details at Bhubaneswar's Biju Patnaik International Airport and the city railway station , as per orders released from Monday .

 

* Following this , all the passengers have to register themselves following which exit passes would be issued to the registered passengers

 

* According to the orders and press release of the state government , the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will scrap the practice of spot RT-PCR testing

 

* Currently , any passenger arriving at the railway station has to produce an RTPCR negative report or a proof of the full dose of vaccine taken as a part of standard operating procedures released as standard protocol for allowing transit for the arriving passengers

 

* In case , a passenger fails to produce any of the above details , the passenger would have to go through the registration counter , fill in a form furnishing the details of the place .. they are from and the designated destination they are up to

 

* After the final registration process is over , the passenger would be provided with an exit pass which he/she would have to show at the place of exit where the Railway Police would be deployed to check

 

* For passengers belonging to Bhubaneswar , the BMC would be keeping their data for further tracking , monitoring and follow-up processes

 

* This data of the number of outbound passengers ( going to other different districts ) would be sent to the respective district adminsitrations over email

 

* The current footfall numbers recorded for Bhubaneswar is around 20,000 passengers per day with over 60 trains passing through Bhubaneswar on a daily basis

An article on Pesticide in Coconut Water (Bullet Points)

 

An article on Pesticide in Coconut Water (Bullet Points)

 

* Coconut farmers use a pesticide called " Monocrotophus " to kill pests and insects and obtain a good yield

 

* Most of the Coconut farmers wait for 45 day for harvest of their produce but some of the farmers harvest earlier for more money

 

* Kutch University in Rajasthan reports to have developed a reagent to detect chemical residue in a coconut or fruit water

 

* The chemical reagent can be used by extracting coconut peel or coconut water

 

* The colour of the coconut peel / coconut water would turn red if the coconut water contains any pesticide

 

* The varsity has planned to commercialise the discovered detection solution if it gets patent for its reagent

 

 

UpStox Stock broker farm hacking case , 25 lakhs customers data stolen from database

 

UpStox Stock broker farm hacking case , 25 lakhs customers data stolen from database

* Upstox , the country's second largest stock broker in terms of number of customers operating over the platform reported a major online security breach with hackers stealing the KYC and customers data .

 

* The data breach happened at a third party data warehouse and the collected data has been put / auctioned /sold over the dark web as per sources

 

* Dark Web is the place where illegal transaction of confidential data takes place between the parties involved in this criminal act .

 

* It is believed that such kind of data is leveraged by data brokers / data breachers to hack into the bank/demat accounts of the purported customers in order to steal money from them

 

* As you may be aware through some movies in which a hacker generally writes an automated code which would allow the hacker to creep into multiple accounts using the login information in an automated manner and deduct some token amount as mentioned in the program with respect to each of the accounts which forms as a adhoc database for the process . Following this , some amount/

all amount is auto deducted from the customers account and it is credited into the account of the program (here , its referred to as Malware) creator for the transaction process

News Article - PM Narendra Modi's call to the nation : " Tika Utsav is another beginning of another war against Covid "

 

PM Narendra Modi : " Tika Utsav is another beginning of another war against Covid "

 

* 4 day Tika Utsav (Vaccine Festival) started off on Sunday by Indian PM Narendra Modi at New Delhi

 

* Aimed at optimum utilisation of country's vaccination capacity

 

* Success over Covid can be determined by the country's awareness of the micro containment zone rules which is the home itself with strict adherence to protocols like not to leave the house premises when there is no need , when the eligible members of the house are vaccinated , when everyone adheres to rules for wearing of masks and adherence to other rules

 

* PM attributed the accelerated vaccination drive as the second round of the fight against Covid-19

 

* PM has coined a four point action plan

01) Each One , Vaccinate One

02) Each One , treat One

03) Each One , Save One

04) Enforcement of Micro Containment Zones guidelines

 

* This four day Vaccination Festival will conclude on the birthday of Dalit Reformer and Father of the Constitution of India Mr BhimRao Ambedkar