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12+ Aged Children to Be Vaccinated From October with Zycov-D

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A big update for ZyCoV-D got clearance from the Indian regulators last month.  ZyCoV-D is the world's first DNA based Coronavirus vaccine. All children in India aged 12 or above will be eligible for the Covid vaccine shots from October, after the drugmaker Cadila Healthcare introduces its ZyCoV-D product. Zydus Cadila from next month will manufacture around 10 million doses of Coronavirus vaccines each month. The Zydus vaccine is the only vaccine approved for adolescents in India. The firm has already provided nearly 825.9 million shots to adults among its population of nearly 1.4 billion. Also Read: Covid vaccination for kids by September, informs ICMR-NIV director Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D is a 'plasmid DNA' vaccine that uses a non-replicating version of a DNA molecule named a plasmid. This process helps to prepare a harmless version variant of the spike protein which is present on the SARS-COV-2 membrane. The procedure is also known as the third generation va

Karnataka: About 100 stray dogs buried alive in Shivamogga, 12 people arrested

  The gut-wrenching incident that took place in Bhadravati taluk has left the animal rescuers and activists stirred as the intensity of cruelty was beyond imaginable. Among the people who were arrested for the gut-wrenching crime, there were 2-gram panchayat members, one JCB operator and a bill collector of the gram panchayat. According to the Police, the gram panchayat had given the officials the task of catching the stray dogs for sterilizing and then later releasing them. The emolument of the same was fixed and provided for the same. The news came into light when the officials involved had conspired against their duty and injected the dogs with poison. There were reports that some of the dogs were even buried alive. A police complaint has been filed against the inhuman gram panchayat members on Wednesday. Members from the Shivmogga Animal Rescue Club had visited the spot on Tuesday after they were informed about the same by the local residents of the area. Also read: WHO ap

Black Widow movie review Scarlett Johansson goes out on the worst Marvel film ever

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Black Widow — now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar, over a month and a half after its Disney+ debut — is frustrating on many counts. As an espionage action thriller, it's a mishmash of other movies of its ilk. A fisticuff between the film's female leads is reminiscent of the choreography and cinematography from Paul Greengrass' Matt Damon-led Jason Bourne films. Black Widow's early Budapest car chase is drawing on the energy of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible. Another shot in that sequence reminded me of the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall, with Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem. A character even watches a Bond film during Black Widow — the 1979 Roger Moore-starrer Moonraker, to be specific — that serves as a bit of foreshadowing for events later in the Marvel movie . Displaying all the worst tendencies of Marvel movies — a flat visual style, a generic structure and an instantly-forgettable villain — Black Widow isn’t merely uninteresting, it almost goes out of its way to