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Vaccine & cure should reinforce each other

In the wake of the Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research having stated that no vaccine for respiratory diseases is 100% efficacious and that a vaccine with minimum of 50% to a maximum of 100% effectiveness is being sought to be used, it may be stressed that if a vaccine of 50% effectiveness is used in India, then it would be prudent that a cure for Covid-19 with a high degree of efficacy should reinforce the overall treatment of Covid-19

On the record it may be stated that at least nine multinational pharmaceutical companies who are in the process of developing vaccines have pledged that all three phases of testing will be under very stringent testing regimes to provide the most effective vaccines, in India since at least a billion people might have to be inoculated.

Therefore this huge exercise should entail very strict measures with a great degree of guarantee.

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Need to modernise the education system

The Goan Network
Published Sep 24, 2020, 11:35 PM IST
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The Indian education system requires modernization. Whether one blames the colonial hangover, regional frictions, deficient leadership, chaotic administration, insufficient regulations or apathetic faculty, the system must strive towards maintenance of standards and a balance between total autonomy and over regulation. Presently, the curriculum adhered to in almost all our institutions of higher education are prosaic and archaic. The curriculum should match changing times…

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