No chance. 2 extra weeks is 2 weeks too less.
I see a further extension until May 15th.
I hope we stay on course. In 2 wards in Bangalore, they have even shut down essential services. BBMP is going to deliver essential goods in those wards.
India's count of COVID-19 cases continues to surge, PM shifts his motto to 'Jaan bhi, jahan bhi'
Community transfer has began. Some jaahil Pi$$fuls did their job
Community transfer has began. Some jaahil Pi$$fuls did their job
State Ministers are useless. All demanding things from centre.
What about their own production? Matlab kisi bhi state ke pass kuch nahi? BC kya desh hai yeh
What about their own production? Matlab kisi bhi state ke pass kuch nahi? BC kya desh hai yeh
The ability of the virus to remain airborne is very less. Any particulate size less than 5 microns, otherwise known as a droplet nuclei, can persist in air for a couple of hours (and we know that the virus is viable in air for 3 hours) but an aerosol droplet will settle down quickly (size above 5 microns) due to relatively heavier weight.
This can easily be checked by following basic precautions around patients who are coughing and sneezing and most importantly, converting the existing ICU/Ward from a simple positive pressure HVAC to a negative pressure where the air is actively sucked out of the ICU/Ward. This is not being done. Hence concentration per unit volume of air within an enclosed ICU unit can significantly go up, raising the potential for airborne transmission.
All most of ICUs in India have to do is establish a number of exhaust fans.
It will be stupid to extend the general lockdown. Instead we must remove lockdown selectively from areas which have not witnessed any new case in last 4-5 days. The lockdown can be localitywise, districtwise or even statewise. But I am against keeping whole India locked down.
The ministers have stashed it, they did not know such calamity can happen.
What you say does not happen, we have people trying to go to some place for no reason
There was a lady who went to bring her kid on scooty, drove for 1400 kms in HIJAB, Earlier we assumed that people care for their safety but due to Tablighis, the chances of exposure has increased. so let the infected be treated (and those who want to hide, die) the rest will be saved by preventing them from exposure.
Remember this disease takes just one to expose many.
Taiwan shares best practices to deal with coronavirus pandemic with Indian medical staff
WION
New Delhi, India
Apr 12, 2020, 01.57 AM(IST)
Reported By: Sidhant Sibal
Coronavirus in Taiwan. (Photograph: Reuters )
Taiwan plans to share its best practices to deal with the coronavirus pandemic with 14,000 Indian medical staff. They shared the information with 9,000 of them on April 2 via video conferencing.
The second video conference is scheduled on April 14. Around 5,000 Indian medicos are expected to participate.
"India is a very important country in our New South Bound Policy. Our government has decided to take action to assist India and other countries in this region to fight the pandemic," Taiwanese Representative Office in New Delhi said, in a statement to WION.
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of Quarantine, Dr Chen at Taiwan National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKUH) interacted with the Indian medical staff, on April 2.
To this end, two Indian Pharma Companies have taken the lead in India-Taiwan Counter Covid collaboration. The 9,000 medical staff, who have been trained, were done with the help of ALKEM Laboratories Ltd based In Mumbai while 5000 who will be trained are being done with help of Veritaz Healthcare Ltd. Infact, it was ALKEM Laboratories who had sought Taiwan External Trade Development Council for assistance.
Both the pharmaceutical companies contracted a PR company and opened registration to the medical or pharmaceutical staffs from hospitals throughout India.
Taiwan's quick reaction to the crisis has drawn praise globally. Under its slogan "Taiwan can help", it is reaching to the world with support on COVID-19.
Taiwan has reported 385 confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 99 have recovered and six have died deaths.
On April 2, Taiwan announced first wave of international humanitarian assistance and donated 10 million medical masks and other medical supplies to the US and Europe.
Masks donated to the Netherlands arrived in Amsterdam on April 7.
Taiwan also gifted to EU member states of Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, Holy See, Switzerland, and the UK.
MOFA last week announced a second wave of international humanitarian assistance and six million masks will be shipped to EU member states in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, severely affected states in the US, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Taiwan is also discussions with Japan on donations to the country.
Taiwan shares best practices to deal with coronavirus pandemic with Indian medical staff
WION
New Delhi, India
Apr 12, 2020, 01.57 AM(IST)
Reported By: Sidhant Sibal
Coronavirus in Taiwan. (Photograph: Reuters )
Taiwan plans to share its best practices to deal with the coronavirus pandemic with 14,000 Indian medical staff. They shared the information with 9,000 of them on April 2 via video conferencing.
The second video conference is scheduled on April 14. Around 5,000 Indian medicos are expected to participate.
"India is a very important country in our New South Bound Policy. Our government has decided to take action to assist India and other countries in this region to fight the pandemic," Taiwanese Representative Office in New Delhi said, in a statement to WION.
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of Quarantine, Dr Chen at Taiwan National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKUH) interacted with the Indian medical staff, on April 2.
To this end, two Indian Pharma Companies have taken the lead in India-Taiwan Counter Covid collaboration. The 9,000 medical staff, who have been trained, were done with the help of ALKEM Laboratories Ltd based In Mumbai while 5000 who will be trained are being done with help of Veritaz Healthcare Ltd. Infact, it was ALKEM Laboratories who had sought Taiwan External Trade Development Council for assistance.
Both the pharmaceutical companies contracted a PR company and opened registration to the medical or pharmaceutical staffs from hospitals throughout India.
Taiwan's quick reaction to the crisis has drawn praise globally. Under its slogan "Taiwan can help", it is reaching to the world with support on COVID-19.
Taiwan has reported 385 confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 99 have recovered and six have died deaths.
On April 2, Taiwan announced first wave of international humanitarian assistance and donated 10 million medical masks and other medical supplies to the US and Europe.
Masks donated to the Netherlands arrived in Amsterdam on April 7.
Taiwan also gifted to EU member states of Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, Holy See, Switzerland, and the UK.
MOFA last week announced a second wave of international humanitarian assistance and six million masks will be shipped to EU member states in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, severely affected states in the US, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Taiwan is also discussions with Japan on donations to the country.
Taiwan shares best practices to deal with coronavirus pandemic with Indian medical staff
From Tabighis to " single source" to "under special operations" , the white washing continues. Just like terror has no religion.
Chinese virus contact / anchor points have a affinity for negatively charged bodies
If one can generate large volumes of negatively charged bodies ie electrons at a steady rate inside a contaminated room ( which is easy ) the moment a corona positive patient sneezes or the virus comes out of its host either in micron size or droplet size or football size , it will be dead on arrival.
The charged electrons will engulf all the attachment / anchor points of virus the moment it comes in contact with the near ionized air . Thus rendering the virus harmless.
The important point is the device needs to be proved , otherwise it's all theory. Will need to wait for that.
As for the exhaust fans , I am not too sure
Exhaust fan effectiveness depends on the thermal convection cycle ( reason why smoke gets vented easily by exhaust fans ) , at ambient room temperatures exhaust fans will be relatively ineffective . The air we breathe out is warm but when we sneeze the respiratory droplets and droplet nuclei are at ambient temperatures and lower . Also the respiratory droplets will drop down very fast under the effect of gravity and the droplet nuclei due to negative affinity will adhere to any free surfaces at every possible chance .
If a very powerful exhaust system capable of creating a near vaccum condition which displaces the entire volume of air inside the room and pumps it out at steady rate then it might work . A word of caution though such conditions runs the risk of venting the virus as well as the patient out the room , if the patients are the MF SoB tablighi jamaati then I don't mind giving the idea a try .
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Negative pressure means you exhaust the air from the room. That would be fatal for the patient. Ideally ICU's ought to be an extremely sanitized space. A Clean Room in HVAC parlance with adequate decontamination procedures before health workers are permitted inside. I've yet to come across such clean room conditions established leave alone maintained in even the so called super specialty hospitals in India.