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"If everything went perfectly, we'd be in scale manufacturing within a year, It could be as long as two years." Says Bill Gates on Covid-19 Vaccine. The Billionaire Man is funding production of the seven most promising ideas for a vaccine as he refocuses his philanthropic work on the deadly coronavirus. The world's second-richest man said vaccine production will probably not start in September, as some have said.

A patient admitted at the state-run Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences in Etawah's Saifai village on Saturday shot a 2 minutes video where he shows garbage piled up in the hospital corridor and washrooms. The hospital is in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district.A man is heard asking in the clip as he records the video."Coronavirus patients should be kept separately, however, these norms (for social distancing) are not being followed here. How will the patients recover?"The hospital was inspected by a senior government official on Sunday after the video was widely shared on social media sparking criticism about poor hygiene…

On April 16, the Indian Ambassador to China, Vikram Misri, tweeted that 650,000 kits, including Rapid Antibody Tests and RNA Extraction Kits had been despatched to India as The Government of India through the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had ordered five lakh rapid antibody test kits from Chinese firm Wondfo on March 27. The COVID-19 test kits were sold to the Indian Government at an inflated price by an Indian distributor named Real Metabolics, it has emerged from a legal dispute between the distributor and the importer that went to the Delhi High Court.

In Delhi a second hospital has been sealed in 24 hours after 44 staff including doctors were found infected with coronavirus, as said by the officials. Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital in north-west Delhi's Jahangirpuri will remain sealed until building has been completely sanitised, officials said. Patients who are already receiving critical care are still being looked after but no new patients will be taken in, the hospital said.The latest sealing comes less than 24 hours after a nurse at Hindu Rao Hospital who had been working at different sections of the building for the last two weeks tested positive…