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AN OVERVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE EFFECT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE I.P. HOLDERS

INTRODUCTION

‘Intellect’ refers to the creations of the mind. Intellectual Property is a type of intangible property and includes inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names and paintings.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are the Rights granted to the creators of Intellectual Property (IP) by the Government. The nature of IPR is territorial. In any country an IP has to seek protection separately under the relevant laws.

Mechanisms which are Special in nature have been kept in place for various territories in order to provide protection to different types of IPRs. It confers an exclusive right to the inventor/ creator or assignee to fully utilize the invention/ creation for a given period of time.

It’s been established that the intellectual labor associated with the innovation should be given due importance so that public good emanates from it.

This is a strong tool, to protect investments, time, money, effort invested by the inventor/creator of an IP, since it grants the inventor/creator an exclusive right for a certain period of time for use of his invention/creation.

Hence it aids in the economic development of a country by promoting healthy competition and encouraging industrial development which shall also aid in the growth of the economy.

WHAT IS AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY?

Intellectual Property(IP) refers to creations of the mind; inventions; literary and artistic works; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.

IP is divided into two categories: 1) Industrial Property:- includes patents for inventions,trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications. 2) Copyright:- covers literary works (such as novels,poems and plays), films, music, artistic works (e.g., drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures) and architectural design.

In Intellectual property(IP), there are Rights which relates to the rights of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and broadcasters in their radio and television programs are included.

WHAT ARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS?

So what do you mean by intellectual
property rights? IP rights like any other property right allow creators, or owners, of patents, trademarks or copyrighted works to benefit from their own work or investment in a creation.

These rights are outlined in Article
27 of the UDHR which provides for the right to benefit from the protection of moral and material interests resulting from authorship of scientific, literary
or artistic productions.

The importance of intellectual property was first recognized in the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886). Both treaties are administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

There are various pros which are more compelling than the cons.

1) The progress and well-being of humanity rest on its capacity to create and invent new
works in the areas of technology
and culture.

2) The legal
protection of new creations and this encourages the commitment of additional resources for further innovation.

And Lastly the third pros is that the 3) Promotion and protection of intellectual property spurs economic growth, creates new jobs and industries,
and enhances the quality and enjoyment of life.

An efficient and equitable intellectual property system can help all countries to realize intellectual property’s potential as a catalyst for economic development and social and cultural well-being. The intellectual property system helps strike a balance between the interests of innovators and the public interest, providing an environment in which creativity and invention can flourish.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDERS IN A QUANDARY DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

While experts are in a combat mode and the race is on to discover the cure for COVID-19, the claim of intellectual property rights for exclusive use of the cure poses a dilemma as it is not considered the most rational thing to do at the moment.

Carlos Correa addressed to organizations like WHO, WTO and WIPO via an open letter to seek support for WTO countries that invoke the ‘security exception’ contained in Article 73 of the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, to take ‘actions it considers necessary for the protection of its essential ‘security interests’ in the wake of COVID-19 threat.

It has been suggested that invocation of exception under Article 73 will be warranted to procure medical products and devices or to use the technologies to manufacture them as necessary to take cue of the present public health emergency.

By suspending the enforcement of any Intellectual Property right as given under Article 73(b) of TRIPS Agreement, an obstacle for the procurement or local manufacturing of the medical equipments shall be necessary in order to protect the population of the world will be outlasted.

The question which is raised due to the above is regarding IP rights which are aimed to aid the public by promoting technological advancement in return of providing the inventor an exclusive right over the invention, though for a limited time. Though the IP rights are at a standstill due to the outbreak the IP Registry offices all over have limited their functioning.

TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  1. Trade Mark: –

A trademark is used in order to identify a business entity and it also differentiates the goods made or services offered by a company or an individual. Names, Words, Logos, Colors, Packaging, Sounds (audible), Signs (visual) or any combination thereof are considered and can be filed as trademarks.

A trademark must be Unique and Distinctive in nature and must also avoid adjectives for eg efficient and Names of person or places (E.g. India). Even Obscene words, Religious or Government words or symbols (E.g. OM) and Common Shapes (Square) should be avoided.

The Trade mark means a mark used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right as proprietor to use that mark.

The function of a trade mark is to give an indication to the purchaser or a possible purchaser as to the manufacture or quality of the goods, to give an indication to the trade source from which the goods come or the trade hands through which they pass on their way to the market.

The Trade Marks Act, 1999 is an act which provides for the registration and better protection of trademarks for goods and services and for the prevention of the use of fraudulent marks. A trade mark is valid for a period of 10 years.

Case Name: The Coca-Cola Company v. Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd
Case Citation: Manu/DE/2698/2009

  1. Copyright: –

Copyright is an exclusive legal right granted to the creators of an intellectual work. The owner of a Copyright has rights to reproduce, translate, adapt, perform, distribute and must be publicly allowed to display the work, etc.

Registration is not mandatory since copyright comes into existence as soon as the intellectual work is created but it is recommended to register a copyright for better enforceability, since registered copyrights have more evidentiary value in court.

(a) Types of Works covered under Copyright:-

(1) Literary including Software – Books, Essay, Compilations, Computer Programs.

(2) Artistic – Drawing, Painting, Logo, Map, Chart, Plan, Photographs, Work of Architecture.

(3) Dramatic – Screenplay, Drama.

(4) Musical – Musical Notations.

(5) Sound Recording – Compact Disc.

(6) Cinematograph Films – Visual Recording which includes sound recording.

(b) Duration of Copyright:-

(1) Literary, Dramatic, Musical or Artistic Works – Lifetime of the author + 60 years from the death of the author.

(2) Anonymous & Pseudonymous Works – 60 years from the year the work was first published.

(3) Works of Public Undertakings & Government Works – 60 years from the year the work was first published.

(4) Works of International Organizations – 60 years from the year the work was first published.

(5) Sound Recording – 60 years from the year in which the recording was published.

(6) Cinematograph Films – 60 years from the year in which the film was published.

Case Name:- Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd. v. Eastern India Motion Picture Association
Case Citation: – 1977 SCR (3) 206

  1. Designs: – The Design Act, 2000 states that it protects the aesthetic and ornamental features of an object. As per the Act a 2D or 3D pattern of a handicraft, a product, or even an industrial commodity.

The Unique Selling Point (USP), protects the looks and feels of the product and it prevents the duplication of the product. An industrial design helps in drawing a customer’s attention and helps in increasing the commercial value of an article.

Case Name:-Cello Household Products v. M/S Modware India and anr
Case Citation:- Notice of Motion (L) No. 209/2017 in Suit (L) No. 48/2017

  1. Patents On the 4th December, 2018, The Ministry of Commerce and Industry released the draft (rules amendment) for Patents Act 1970. These rules are mainly amended with respect to international applications, patent opposition and a few form related extensions. The Central Government proposes to make these amendments in exercise of the powers conferred by section 159 of the Patents Act, 1970.In order to align with TRIPS, inventions which are not patentable have been included even, wider rights of patentee is incorporated. Uniform period of protection is 20years. Case Name: Bajaj Auto Limited v.TVS Motor Company Limited. Case Citation: JT 2009 (12) SC 103

5. Integrated Circuits

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design (SICLD) Act 2000 states the meaning of Semi conductor Integrated Circuit as, a product having transistors and other circuitry elements designed to perform an electronic circuitry function. There are 2 types of designs as per the act:-

(i) Layout Design – A layout of transistors and other circuitry elements including lead wires which connects semiconductor integrated circuits.

(ii) Layout-Design Registry (SICLDR) is the office where the applications on Layout-Designs of integrated circuits are filed for registration. The jurisdiction of this Registry is whole of India. The Registry, as per the guidelines laid down in the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design (SICLD) Act 2000 and the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design (SICLD) Rules 2001, examines the layout-designs of the Integrated Circuits and issues the Registration Certificate to the original layout-designs of the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits.

Case Name: Sunil Alag v. Union of India and Others
Case Citation: W.P. (C) 8152/2013

6. Biological Diversity

The Biological Diversity Act 2002 was enacted to realize the objectives enshrined in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1992 which was passed by the Lok Sabha on 2nd December 2002 and by the Rajya Sabha on 11th December 2002.

It recognizes the sovereign rights of states to use their own Biological Resources due to the scarcity and also to conserve it. The Act provides for a mechanism for equal sharing of benefits arising out of the use of traditional biological resources and knowledge. It is a federal legislation enacted by the Parliament of India for preservation of biological diversity in India.

Case Name: Environment Support Group vs National Biodiversity Authority
Case Citation: W.P. No.41532 / 2012

7. Plant Varieties and Farmers

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer’s Rights Act of 2001(PPV & FR Act, 2001) confers right to breeders, researchers and farmers over their plant varieties. Reaching legislation with regards to establishing rights for farmers to save, use, exchange and sell farm saved seed.

The Act establishes nine rights for farmers of which the most important in this regard are the right to “seed” and the right to “compensation” for crop failure (Art. 39). Not only does the 2001 Act protect the rights of framers to save, use, exchange and sell farm- saved seed, it also seeks to ensure that these seeds are of good quality, or at least that farmers are adequately informed about the quality of seed they buy.

In addition, safeguards are provided against innocent infringement by farmers. Farmers who unknowingly violate the rights of a breeder are not to be punished if they can prove that they were not aware of the existence of such a breeder’s right (Art 42).

Case Name:- Monsanto Technology LLC & Ors Vs. Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd & OrsHigh Court of Delhi
Case Citation: CS (Comm) 132/2016

  1. The Geographical Indication of Goods:- The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 states Geographical Indication as it is primarily an agricultural or food product, natural or a manufactured product (handicrafts, Handloom textiles or industrial goods) originating from a definite geographical territory. A product is considered to be manufactured in a territory if any one of the activities of either the production or of processing or preparation of the goods takes place there. It promotes the producers prosperity of goods which have been produced in the geographical territory.

It helps the producer community to differentiate its products from other competing products that are present in the market and generate goodwill around its products. Hence, it acts as a signaling device by helping consumers to identify genuine quality products.

Case Name:- Tea Board Vs ITC Limited on 20 April, 2011
Case Citation:- GA No. 3137 of 2010 CS No. 250 of 2010

It has been suggested that invocation of exception under Article 73 will be warranted to procure medical products and devices or to use the technologies to manufacture them as necessary to take cue of the present public health emergency.

CONCUSION

The above overview clearly depicts that India has adopted and adhered to the latest IPR Regime and it has forayed into the global trade competition with a double edged sword.

WEBSITES REFERRED

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Is Film Industry in SHAMBLES?

Friday morning. First day, first show. After waiting for months, the movie finally got released. I called up Udit to ask him when he will reach. I stood in the queue for two large tubs of popcorn and 2 large drinks. After all, it’s just unthinkable to watch a movie without some munchies to ruminate. He arrived exactly 3 minutes late. Infuriated, we took our seats and watched the entire movie in silence. At the end, I just said to him, “I will never ever watch a movie with you.”

Four months has passed by since then. I still regret to utter those words to him. Will we ever be able to enjoy going to the cinema halls? Maybe yes, but it won’t be the same again.

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One of the most lucrative and labor intensive industry, the film industry had to suffer a huge blow due to this pandemic. Big releases such as Sooryavansham, Pahwa, 83 and other such big banner movies got postponed owing to the commencement of lockdown. Shootings have been halted since Modi declared the lockdown and is still in process. Shutters are still down for cinema halls, malls and other small theatres, at least in India. Movies which were progressing at the time the lockdown was declared had to be stopped in the middle. Film industry is just a cost effective and cost intensive business that such a blow like this have seriously crippled not only the major stakeholders but also the daily wagers, contractual workers and the shift workers. And considering the fact that Indian economy is in shambles now, it is least likely that consumers will show high interest in visiting theater, let alone trying to meet ends.

India is a highly populated country where according to Malthusian theory, our food production follows arithmetic progression and our population follows geometric progression. No doubt, the only factor that has forever been booming in India is the population and today that is creating chaos. Our film industry employs actor, directors, producers, screen-writers and various major stakeholders but the majority of people in the set are the daily wagers, contractual workers and the shift workers. This lockdown had taken away their jobs and they are trying to thrive on their savings which is also dwindling. Major concern is faced by the small banners because they feel that let alone big banners, small banner movies have very less chance to appear in the multiplexes owing to such large investments in location, travel, casting, sets and so on and so forth. Recent study says that the film industry is going to be reopened at the last because the last thing most consumers would want is to go to halls, surpassing all the barriers of hygiene and sit and watch movies.

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But whatever be the situation, I personally feel that the lockdown will be a great chance to reform the current scenario of our film industry. Firstly, due to major cash crunch and dwindling economy, producers will actually give a lot of thought before producing those B-rated, mindless, long and illogical movies. They will actually need to sit, write down a script keeping in mind the consumers’ current economic and needs scenario. Secondly, this is a great opportunity for the complete digitization of the industry. OTT platforms such as Amazon Prime video, Hotstar+Disney and Netflix should take the front seat in driving this lucrative business. Consumers have already switched to this relaxing mode of entertainment and they have adapted to this new normal. There has been a huge spike in the monthly and annual subscriptions for these platforms. This is particularly a great news for the small banner films because they can focus on producing movies having very strong, powerful and meaningful content and if the total investment is less than 5 crores, OTT platforms can buy those movie to create hype among the consumers. Lockdown will surely be the best thing for consumers who are particularly interested in watching meaningful movies devoid of any nepotistic characters. And thirdly, and this especially go out for the those cohorts who spend huge amounts in this sector, it is a great opportunity for them to curb on their spending costs and shift towards the more safe and indoor means of entertainment.

But whatever be the situation, the film industry will suffer a huge blow and there are no sign of restoration of releases or shooting till the end of 2020 or the beginning of 2021. A lot of modifications needs to be done both in the films sets as well as multiplexes. A few suggestions for multiplexes include limiting the sell of tickets, monitoring the queues at washrooms and food counters, sitting while still maintaining the social distancing and especially modification needs to be made to allow 4 entry and exit points. There are movie-buffs and who will definitely go to watch movies on screens and the film industry should try to target such cohorts.

After all we all know that human beings are social animals and they will definitely return, today or tomorrow.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-how-will-coronavirus-impact-entertainment-industry-6370412/

lhttps://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/yami-gautam-on-covid-19-impact-on-film-industry-budgets-are-going-to-be-curtailed/story-Twuo68so44hg5ipiqHYF7J.html

Who delivers the Amazon cardboard boxes???

Cardboard boxes that have been used for generations and thrived in the age of e-commerce continue to flourish or could the cardboard box be facing a new challenger? Cardboard boxes are a very big deal within the U.S. The United States is the Saudi Arabia of trees. Someone’s going to make the first box and that’s almost inevitably a mill generally in the Southeast United States. China certainly doesn’t have trees and India the extent they do have trees they’re not necessarily the right types of trees and shouldn’t be dedicated towards making boxes for us. The box business grew rapidly up through 1999 when the U.S. coordinated box market had its peak shipment. Starting in the early 2000s the U.S. corrugated box market faced multiple economic obstacles.

The great recession dragged on box demand and even after the recession demand continued to slow for commodity like soda and for the boxes that transport them. The move to digital devices also coincided with a drop in demand for copy paper and newsprint. But box makers found a grace in e-commerce sales and Amazon sale specifically which were growing at mostly integer rates within the recession and post-recession years. Those e-commerce sales have become a significant market for the containerboard industry. In 2018 told a U.S. e-commerce sales were estimated to be $512 billion almost 50 percent higher than in 2015. Amazon captured 48 percent of those sales. Most estimates are that e-commerce accounts for about 10 percent of the U.S. box market. Amazon accounts for close to 5 percent of U.S. box demand. By our estimates they are clearly the single largest box user in the US. International Paper with a third of the market I think does closer to 50 percent of all the amazon boxes evidently they got a bit more share than perhaps some of the smaller players.

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Amazon said they deal with most of the big box makers across the U.S. according to analysts. Those manufacturers include International Paper, WestRock, Packaging Corporation of America and Georgia-Pacific. Some investors were turning to these companies as a way to invest in the e-commerce giant without having to purchase Amazon’s pricey stock. People didn’t really start talking about buying International Paper or WestRock as a secondary investment in Amazon till about the last five years. Despite the boost from e-commerce sales the box business still isn’t growing all that much. And since 2018 their stocks have mostly underperformed the S&P 500. In 2018, 69 percent of International Papers total revenue came from the box business and that sales volume has been mostly flat for the past five years. Although the big producers sold less boxes in 2018 than in 2000, industry consolidation has dramatically narrowed the fields.

The handful of big players remaining are based in Memphis, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia and Lake Forest, Illinois. Analysts have told CNBC that substantial industry mergers have made it easier to collectively hike prices and those price increases have helped drive revenue. There are portions of the business that are in indisputable secular decline but if you’re in the brown part of the business, making these boxes, that’s been some very welcome growth. But those extra boxes piling up on people’s doorsteps have led to a backlash from disgruntled customers who are sick of receiving golf ball sized products in supersized boxes. It used to be that you’d order a toothbrush and it would come in three giant boxes and you’d say to yourself, what is this? Well, Amazon is trying to rectify that by using fewer boxes and using other types of packaging where appropriate. With e-commerce packaging underfire Amazon decided to change the way they do shipping. In 2008, Amazon introduced the Frustration Free Packaging program. It aims to reduce the extra packaging created when retail packaged products are placed inside Amazon boxes to be shipped. Instead, products certified in the program that are roughly the size of a blender or larger need to be packaged in their own ready to ship boxes. And those boxes also need to be made of 100 percent recyclable materials. For customers that means that the packaging is easy to recycle and the box is easy to open without all the excess packaging materials.

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Amazon offered vendors an incentive of a dollar per shipment to modify their packaging. And starting August 1st 2019 Amazon is charging a $1.99 penalty for each product shipped that needs to be reboxed. And basically the point of this deadline is for Amazon to get out of the business of packaging. They want their vendors to send them boxes that Amazon doesn’t have to touch or rebox. Over the last two years we have invented two different kinds of flexible mailers. One is the blue and white all plastic mailer. We’ve recently launched in the last six, eight months a paper padded mailer that’s actually fully recyclable with the paper stream. Amazon said they made about 10 million shipments using the paper padded mailer and depending on the month the plastic mailer is used about 20 to 30 percent of the time. So really when we come down to deciding if the product is of the size it can go on a mailer, it’s not likely to be damaged by going in the mailer, the mailer is always the better fitting option and frankly is easier for the customer to choose to recycle than breaking down a corrugate box. We’re driving in that direction for many different reasons. But those plastic mailers generally are not accepted in municipal recycling programs and you’ll need to bring them to a store that accepts plastic bags. The latest stats from the EPA show that corrugated boxes were recycled at a rate of 92 percent in 2015 while plastic bags, sacks and wraps were recycled at a rate of 13 percent in 2015.

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When you think about what is the greatest pain point for the consumer after having it get there safely arrive on time people are concerned about receiving something that is plastic or made a poly because of the environmental concerns. Some waste management companies say plastic packaging also causes problems for the recycling systems. Plastic mailers get caught in the recycling machinery slowing down the process and raising the costs for recyclers and sometimes contaminating entire bundles. Until Scotty on the Enterprise can beam the products from the warehouse to your living room I think Amazon’s going to be good for the corrugated business. I think there’s going to be noise I think you’re going to have challenges from time to time where people say, “Should we try and the plastic pouch?”, in the long run plastic is going to be on the wrong side of history. Because Amazon is a market leader in the U.S. e-commerce sector any move away from cardboard to plastic mailers could signal a shift for the entire industry. The corrugated box could be about to undergo a major facelift. We’re seeing some major trends among consumers and what they’re expecting from e-commerce and the first one is actually this desire for increased engagement with the package. In 2015, Amazon partnered with Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment to ship orders in bright yellow delivery boxes featuring cartoon characters from the movie Minions. The boxes promoting the movie and a special Amazon U.R.L. dedicated to shopping for merchandise from the film.

MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF COVID-19

Since the outbreak of Coronavirus, which has now reached the pandemic status, almost effected all first world, second world countries, the world is in the state of crisis, quite evidently. Millions of lives have been altered, on different levels. Concern, stress, fear all very natural and normal reactions to the uncertain situation unfolding so rapidly with different dimensions that we happen to find ourselves in.

Now, in the situation of the widespread disease with no cure people are fearing death and the government trying to intensify their efforts to manage the pandemic through collective public health intervention measures and common folks coming together to help, showing remarkable cooperation, one aspect is largely ignored, that of Mental Health.

Experts have advised us to ‘stay in’, making quarantine the most preventive measure, but staying in comes with a bonus, that of potentially long term detrimental impact on mental health.

Being a collectivistic culture highly dependent on socialization (social support and social connectedness) has been critical towards self-isolation and social-distancing and are reluctantly dealing with emotional, psychological, behavioral impacts. Confusion, frustration, stress, anxiety, PTSD all triggered by uncontrolled events of the ongoing crisis, moving from mainstream to largely ignored conditions like depression, self harm, unintentional or intentional harm to family members, helplessness, substance abuse, sleeping problems you name it!

We humans are social animals and we cannot stay in a confined area and communicate with just few people everyday we had a habit of meeting new people daily and engaging in new stuff every now and then and staying in homes has made a huge impact on all individuals. They are hoping for all of this to end soon so that they can move out of their houses and return to their normal lives. Some are scared that what if they will not be able to live the normal life again and this makes the minds uncertain of the near future. Apart from the lockdown for pandemic one must also believe that mental health is very important just to make sure one is happy not only from the outside but from the inside too and maintain peace.

People can manage mental peace and harmony through meditation, proper diet, healthy fruits and vegetables, learning new skills and exercising and most importantly following a proper routine. And also to check on one another if the other is doing fine or not. This will ensure that everyone is not just safe physically but are also having peaceful minds and if not communication can heal the gaps and make a person feel less burdened.

Improve Hospitals, treat patients

Numerous Covid patients battle to get institutional treatment. States should boundlessly upgrade limit by ad libbing transitory medical clinics to oblige the flood of Covid-19 patients. We can’t have patients going around for affirmation and biting the dust for need of a spot to be dealt with.

Apparently, in Uttar Pradesh, a 48-year-elderly person experiencing intense respiratory issues kicked the bucket at the Meerut clinical emergency clinic on Sunday after purportedly doing the rounds of nine medical clinics in Noida, Ghaziabad and Delhi for two days, yet neglecting to go anyplace.

Distressingly, there are reports from Delhi and different states about significant delays of beset people outside emergency clinics, bringing about passings at times. This is inadmissible. States ought to promptly change over lodgings, public venues, schools and arenas into clinic wards to treat Covid-19 patients. This is additionally a basic piece of opening up the economy.

Evaluations recommend that the nation has around 19 lakh clinic beds, 95,000 ICU beds and just around 48,000 ventilators. Bed limit is soaked in government medical clinics. The lockdown gave a window for states to extend the wellbeing framework to contain the pandemic. That numerous states neglected to do so is shocking.

Introducing ventilators and assembling huge quantities of defensive attire and other rigging for emergency clinic staff in transitory broadened medical clinics ought to be a need now. Such spontaneous creation ought to be done the nation over to treat those distressed.

Labor (read: specialists and ICU pros) lack is the other test. Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya proposes that youngsters and ladies — including bombed clinical understudies — who have been prepared in the essentials of basic mind however don’t have a clinical degree must be presented at locale emergency clinics on treat Covid patients. That bodes well. Maybe, experienced medical attendants could be given extra preparing to manage treatment on ventilators. The need is to deliver both the difficulties to handle the general wellbeing emergency. We don’t have the advantage of leaving the best alone the foe of the great.

COVID 19:- The World health report

The World Health Organization says that in any event one of the almost 150 Covid-19 antibodies being tried the world over ought to be prepared by 2021. Creating a sheltered and useful immunization, instead of attempting to beat nearsighted cutoff times, ought to be the objective for India and nations over the world that are as of now occupied with examination and testing of an antibody for the infection. Science must guide the speed of antibody exploration and preliminaries must be led with thoroughness and tenable straightforwardness. Quicker clearances for starting preliminaries (read: cutting formality) is welcome, yet giving quick work to testing conventions or fudging results will have hazardous outcomes.

In the event that any organization in India prevails with regards to making a decent and powerful antibody, its picture and India’s will get a lift all around. The opposite would occur on the off chance that it creates a terrible antibody that bargains security. Apparently, around 21 antibody competitors are in human preliminaries, including one created by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca that is at the most exceptional stage — with Phase II/III preliminaries in England and Phase III preliminaries in Brazil and South Africa. As of late, Indian immunization producer Zydus Cadila got endorsement to begin human preliminaries of a DNA-based antibody, turning into the second organization in India to join the race after Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech that is working together with the ICMR to build up an immunization.

The ICMR ought to keep away from any future contentions over setting self-assertive cutoff times for dispatch of the immunization. India has enough residential patients for undeniable tests. This is indispensable in the propelled viability preliminaries (Phase III preliminaries) when the immunization is given to a huge number of individuals to perceive what number of get contaminated contrasted and the volunteers who got a fake treatment . Hitting the nail on the head is a higher priority than getting it quick.

Meditation in the age of covid

Online intervention has a large group of preferences, yet additionally bears some advised.

We live in weird occasions. Old assurances have offered approach to new vulnerabilities. Down the ages, Lady Justice, blade in one hand and eyes blindfolded, has been essentially similar to the Rock of Gibraltar, guaranteeing soundness, yet additionally being impervious to change. One bug, initiated COVID-19, tags along and the Lady is reeling . At the core of the ill-disposed framework is promotion acted in open setting, in full look of customers and individual legal advisors, and that has directed methods of thought and approach and conduct, all basic to the framework. Equity must appear to be done, however passes judgment on must likewise be seen while they are occupied with the undertaking of doing it. Be that as it may, nearness in numbers requires vicinity, and now closeness spells threat. Denied of their normal setting of the court, judges and legal advisors have fallen back to discuss virtual courts, so the minimum necessity is accomplished — the appointed authority having the option to hear the specific legal counselor. Every single other element of the court are shunned , and along these lines a basically open setting is changed over to a shut entryway one. It is, and will stay, inadmissible.

A tenderfoot

There is, in any case, another device in the contest goals ordnance , which is impervious to COVID-19, and maybe could even blossom with it. That is intervention, which is the total inverse of the court procedure. It attempts to accomplish accord between gatherings to go to a neighborly understanding, as opposed to the success lose decision of the antagonistic framework. At its center is secret conversation among go between and parties, and among arbiter and individual gatherings. It centers around revealing interests, and evoking recommendations from the gatherings themselves for down to earth answers for end the question. As much as the basic quality of the conventional equity framework is the open court hearing, intervention’s pith is shut entryway correspondence with its assurance of secrecy. Furthermore, significant in the current setting, it has an intrinsic adaptability and flexibility.

As a procedure, organized intercession is a newcomer, with a presence of scarcely a few decades in India, and only a couple of increasingly around the world. Regular suit and intervention are vintage, traversing many years and ages of judges and legal advisors. Intervention, be that as it may, is a thought whose opportunity has arrived and is quickly making strides. Enactment has given it the legitimate structure and defends, and gave the confirmation that the courts will actualize intervention understandings. India’s appointed authorities have been energetic embracers of this procedure. Attorneys, saturated with antagonistic ways, have shockingly heated up to a framework which is its direct opposite.

Helpful and practical

Online intercession will empower the go between and the gatherings to collect together, each on their PC screens maybe several miles away. Conversation can be guided, allowing gatherings and legal advisors the chance to advance their perspectives. At the point when separate gatherings are required, the go between can, at the snap of a catch, move the other party and its legal counselor to another virtual room. The incredible bit of leeway of online intervention is that it is advantageous, practical and a proficient utilization of time. Gatherings don’t need to endure costs, don’t need to travel, don’t need to stand by extended periods, and don’t need to experience dismissals and various visits to the intercession community. Much should be possible by utilizing this medium to get quicker outcomes.

What will be absent in this procedure is the promptness, unequivocal quality and complete contact that is conceivable just in eye to eye gatherings. Then again, it might likewise be that in an online procedure, we are giving the member a little casing of security, when we make this grainy obstruction of two screens and a middle universe of Internet and WiFi. It will unquestionably be of advantage in situations where feelings run high and up close and personal showdown may expand the contention. That happens frequently in marital cases, and in privately-run company debates, where tempers and feelings emerging from frayed local circumstances and settings can push out reasonable business rationale. Correspondingly, where gatherings are situated in various nations, we would have discarded troubles of separation when we receive this mode. As the new impulsive of online courses appears, it is anything but difficult to get individuals from various areas on to one stage.

Online intervention has a large group of favorable circumstances, yet in addition bears some forewarning. Classification can be undermined since hearings could be recorded; specialist organizations must be cautious, and rules should punish members for break. Specialized glitches must be limited, and Internet administrations must apparatus in the mood for giving screen lucidity and continuous feed. In any case, most importantly, there is the trepidation that online correspondence will reject the oppressed, the individuals who can’t bear the cost of access to Internet or don’t have the limit or help to utilize it. Such rejection will be equivalent to forswearing of access to equity. In the event that the State and its Courts will permit and urge online intervention to determine questions, more vulnerable gatherings must be helped and empowered to profit of this office.

As we wander in obscurity to discover what the new ordinary is going to comprise of, we may well find that a decent piece of the universe of contest goals has been flipped, and that COVID-19 is the harbinger of progress taking on the web consensual goals to a more significant level. Maybe, this cloud also has a silver covering.

Day to Day Sings & Symptons…DAY 1 to 22

Day to Day Signs and Symptoms of Coronavirus DAY TO DAY SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19 Before proceeding, please note that this general overview is compiled for initial self-assessment only and should vary for each individual. If you are not feeling well, you ought to immediately consult a medical man to possess an accurate diagnosis and proper treatment of COVID-19. The typical daily symptoms are concluded from the study of 138 patients at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and another study involving 135 patients from Jinyintan Hospital and 56 patients from Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital.

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These symptoms are broken down into:

DAY 1 to DAY 2 the start symptoms are almost like the cold with a light pharyngitis and neither having a fever nor feeling tired. Patients can still consume food and drink as was common .

DAY 3 The patient’s throats start to feel a touch painful. Body temperature reads at around 36.5° celsius. Although it’s uncommon, other symptoms like mild nausea, vomiting or mild diarrhea are possible to set in.

DAY 4 Throat pain becomes more serious. Other symptoms like feeling weak and joint pain start to manifest. The patient may show a temperature reading between 36.5° to 37° celsius.

DAY 5 to DAY 6 Mild fever starts. The patients show a temperature reading above 37.2° celsius. The second most common symptom, dry cough, also appears. Dyspnea or breathing difficulty may occur occasionally. Most patients during this stage are easily feeling tired. Other symptoms remain about the same. These four symptoms are among the top five key indications of COVID-19 according to the final report of the initial outbreak conducted by the joint mission of China and WHO.

DAY 7 get more serious coughs and breathing difficulty. Fever can get higher up to 38° celsius. Patients may develop further headache and body pain or worsening diarrhea if there’s any. Many patients are admitted to the hospital at this stage.

DAY 8 to DAY 9 On the 8th day, the symptoms are likely to be worsened for the patient who has coexisting medical conditions. Severe shortness of breath becomes more frequent. Temperature reading goes well above 38°.

DAY 9 is that the average time when Sepsis starts to affect 40% of the patients.

DAY 10 to DAY 11 Doctors are ordering imaging tests like chest x-ray to capture the severity of respiratory distress in patients. Patients are having loss of appetite and should be facing abdominal pain. The condition also needs immediate treatment in ICU.

DAY 12 to DAY 14 For the survivors, the symptoms can be well-managed at this point. Fever tends to urge better and breathing difficulties may start to cease on day 13. But Some patients should be suffering from mild cough even after hospital discharge.

DAY 15 to DAY 16 Day 15 is the opposite condition for the rest of the minority patients. The fragile group must prepare for the possibility of acute cardiac injury or kidney injury.

DAY 17 to DAY 19 COVID-19 fatality cases happen at around day 18. Before the time, vulnerable patients may develop a secondary infection caused by a new pathogen in the lower respiratory tract. The severe condition may then lead to blood coagulation and ischemia.
DAY 20 to DAY 22 The surviving patients are recovered completely from the disease and are discharged from the hospital.

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Machine learning is a technique that teaches the computer to perform the actions done by humans or animals (basically learning from experience). Using machine learning you can able to analyse large amounts of data with almost accurate results.

In this machine learning project, you will get an idea about how to use machine learning to predict the coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak. You can also use the same method to predict other epidemic diseases like malaria, dengue, swine flu, SARS, etc. Recently coronavirus has created a huge impact worldwide by infecting lakhs of people and killing thousands.

In machine learning there are two types one is supervised learning and unsupervised learning. Supervised learning builds the model which makes the predictions based on the input and the output. Unsupervised learning develops the model from the input data alone.

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Outline: Here we are going to use the SVM model and linear regression method to predict the outbreak of coronavirus for the upcoming 10 days across different regions by using charts and graphs.

Coronavirus doesn’t have the ability to mobilize themselves from one host to another host. But it can able to multiply themselves once it gets into a host. So by considering the above scenario, we can come to a conclusion that it spreads via the physical network. 

Here in our case there two factors that create the physical network: 

1. Population density

2. Hotspot

Population density: High population density areas like metro cities creates more contact between humans and increases the risk of disease transmission from one person to another.

Hotspot: It is a place which has more human attraction places like, shopping malls, theatres, amusement parks, airports, etc.

Project Implementation

  1. Import the necessary libraries to the jupyter notebook. Libraries such as

numpy, pandas – for numerical computation and manipulation

Matplotlib – for visualising the data

math, time, sklearn, datetime, operator, etc.

  1. Import the datasets – confirmed_cases, deaths_reported, recovered_cases (you can download the datasets from www.kaggle.com)
  2. Extract all the column names from the confirmed_cases dataset using .keys() function
  3. Using .loc() function extract only the date column from all the three datasets.
  4. Find the total confirmed, death and recovered cases and calculate the total mortality rate.
  5. Now convert all the dates and cases in the form of numpy array using np.array function.
  6. Since we are going to predict the cases for the next 10 days add the last 10 days to the total number of days that we have.
  7. Visualise the data using different charts and graphs to check the impact of coronavirus, for visualization extract the last column values of all the three datasets.
  8. Find the list of unique countries using .unique()  function and calculate the total number of confirmed cases country wise. 
  9. Now find the number of confirmed cases for each province/state/city before that remove the countries which have been marked as provinces or state by classifying them as outliers.
  10. Plot the graph to see the total number of confirmed cases across different countries.
  11. You can also compare the confirmed cases between china and outside china by plotting another graph.
  12. Now visualise the top 10 countries that have the most number of confirmed coronavirus cases by using bar graph or pie chart.
  13. Let’s start building the model using the Support Vector Machine algorithm. It uses different parameters to build the model such as kernel, c, gamma, epsilon, shrinking and svm_grid.

kernel – it specifies the kernel type to be used in the algorithm (linear, poly, rbf, sigmoid

c – regularisation parameter

gamma – kernel coefficient of rbf, sigmoid, gamma, etc.

  1. Using the RandomizedSearchCV function build the model by passing necessary parameters. Finally, fit the data using svm.search.fit() function.
  2. You can find the best estimator using svm_search.best_estimator_ function and predict future forecast using svm_confirmed.predict function
  3. Check the values of the testing data by creating a plot between svm_test_pred data and y_test_confirmed data then print the mean absolute error and mean squared values.
  4. Then plot the total number of coronavirus cases over time as per your wish. Next plot a graph between total confirmed coronavirus cases and svm predicted cases.
  5. Using the SVM algorithm predict the number of cases for the upcoming 10 days.

Using Linear regression model

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  1. Import the linear regression function from the sci-kit learn library and fit the model using x_train_confirmed and y_train_confirmed data.
  2. For prediction use x_test_confirmed data and future_forecast data
  3. Print the MAE (Mean Absolute Error) and MSE (Mean Squared Error).
  4. Plot the confirmed values from y_test_confirmed data and test_linear_pred data
  5. Now predict the number of coronavirus cases for the next 10 days. 
  6. Try plotting graphs for coronavirus recovered over time, mortality rate over time, number of deaths over time

By using machine learning you can able to visualise the data and graphs for many things but here the disadvantage is the high error susceptibility which leads to giving an error in the predictions.

Reference- https://skyfilabs.co.in

Is mask important during exercise in Covid-19?

Has exercise helped you deal with the lockdown? If it’s, then you’re never alone. Exercise is unlimited. Gyms might reopen and therefore the government advice suggests that folks should wear face coverings on conveyance and in places where social distancing isn’t possible. But does this reach exercise? Here’s what you would like to understand about mask important during exercise or not.

Are runners required to wear face masks?

Not really. People should wear face masks where social distancing isn’t possible always and where they can inherit contact with others. Though they are doing not normally meet, for instance on conveyance or in some shops, the mask is important. In crowded areas, this recommendation could reach runners but officially there’s no advice requiring people that are exercising during a wide-open space to wear a mask. As long as you’re doing social distancing, it shouldn’t be necessary to wear a face-covering while exercising.

However, many professionals agree that wearing a mask is more about preventing the spread of Covid-19 to others, instead of protecting yourself, particularly if you’re asymptomatic.

If you’re getting to be jogging during a highly urban area, it’d be advisable to stay a mask in your pocket and put it on as you pass any crowds of individuals.

Is wearing a mask while exercising harmful?

There’s no scientific consensus on either the advantages or the risks, of wearing a mask while exercising, primarily because little research has been done into the world.

These five things which will happen if you wear a mask and exercise:

1.Claustrophobia

Because you breathe heavily while you’re exercising, there are high chances of you getting claustrophobic because the air supply could be restricted by your mask.

2.Lower stamina and fatigue

Stamina all boils right down to the quantity of oxygen you’re inhaling while you exercise. If you’re wearing a mask then your stamina is going to be on the lower side as you won’t be taking in the maximum amount of oxygen as you want to.

3.Nausea

Lack of oxygen and breathlessness may additionally cause nausea and dizziness.

4.Excessive sweating and dehydration

When you keep it up re-breathing the air you exhale it accelerates your pulse thanks to which you sweat tons. This can result in high chances that your body might dehydrate. We should always stay hydrated during the summer is crucial.

5.Unconsciousness and irritability

Although it’s not quite common, you can’t eliminate the probabilities of it. once you exercise together with your mask on you’re rebuilding the CO2 levels in your body which may cause unconsciousness.

Right now it’s better that you simply occupy the home and do whatever exercises you would like on your premises. you’ll use your terrace rather than stepping out.

Now that even the planet Health Organisation (WHO) is saying that we’d like to find out to measure with COVID-19, we’d like to take care of the alternatives we make. So, consider before you slip away for a run together with your mask on.

However, these incidents are rare, and there have likely been underlying health conditions.

Should You Wear a Mask When Exercising Outdoors? - WSJ

What sort of mask should I wear when I’m exercising?

From floral summer prints to heavy-duty respirators, it seems there is a mask cropping up for each occasion.

Several companies are producing face masks to run in, and these are for style and using materials to stop becoming excessively damp – breathing through the mask will produce water. The mask should be clean than having several will help. the fabric must be porous.

To help us, a mask made out of sentimental, breathable fabric that’s washable, making it safe for a sweaty exercise has been introduced. Masks also provide FFP 1 grade protection.

Is Will exercising with a mask affect my performance?

Whether you’re an experienced runner or a lockdown newbie cyclist, everyone likes to perform to the simplest of their ability. If you are planning to wear a mask on your daily exercise, it can make you feel uncomfortable, in hot weather.

There’s no doubt that folks are getting to find running with a mask harder. Then you’ve needed to breathe a touch harder to urge through the barrier, which suggests your lungs are getting to get a touch more of a piece out.

A mask decreases the flow of air into your lungs, so you’ll have less oxygen in your bloodstream. This suggests you’ll fatigue quicker. It’s likely that you simply are going to be getting enough oxygen once you exercise with a mask on, but if you are doing experience unusual signs like lightheaded, dizziness, extreme shortness of breath or numbness and tingling, stop exercising, begin your mask and take an opportunity.

Conclusion

Now lockdown restrictions are starting to be lifted, it’s even more important to require extra care when exercising publicly. If you can, choose a run where you are not going to encounter many of us. If you would like to exercise with someone, run side by side with an honest gap between each of you.

Also maintains it is vital to remember of the opposite people – both runners and pedestrians – on the pavement around you. If another person is coming towards you, shout and instruct in which direction you will proceed running. This will avoid collisions.

Covid-19 Updates.

The global pandemic has troubled the world enough by taking many lives and taking down the economy of vast number of nations. People are praying and expecting that a vaccine is made as soon as possible and then the virus could be stopped.

3 new Covid-19 symptoms.

US healthy body adds 3 new symptoms of covid-19 which could be found in a person who might have contacted the virus. It was already been reported that person who has contracted the virus will have the following symptoms such as fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing, muscle pain or body pain, fatigue, loss of smell or taste, headache or sore throat these are the symptoms which are already included in the covid-19 symptoms list. Here it has been reported that US centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added 3 more symptoms to the list and they are Congestion or runny nose, nausea and diarrhea which makes the total symptoms of 12. This list will be updating as new cases bring new symptoms and the people could experience any combination of symptoms from the following list. People having other sorts of disease or medical conditions are at a higher risk for developing much more serious complications if they contract the virus.

The virus does not seem to stop as the number keeps on increasing every day across the globe as we have around 10 million cases around the world approximately and have recorded 499,000 deaths so far in the last few months. Coming to India as per the reports India has reached around 5.28 Lakh infections and over 16,000 deaths till date.

Lockdown in Maharashtra extended till 31st July.

The Uddhav Thackeray has reportedly led the Maharashtra government today (Monday) and declared that the state would undergo Lockdown till the 31st of July.

Update on the Covid-19 Vaccine.

As the cases around the world are unstoppable there are many nations who have indulged in the making the vaccine for the corona virus. There are mostly 100 vaccines which are being developed worldwide, some of the nations are India, China, US, Russia and Israel. It has also been reported that the chief Scientist of world health organization named Dr Soumya Swaminathan reportedly said that around 2 billion dosses of corona virus vaccine would be available and ready to use by the end of next year. But the major question which arises is that who would get the first vaccine of the deadly virus ? Most probably the people of the country where the vaccine is made. Therefore there is a lot of pressure from various governments on their pharmaceutical companies and scientists to make the vaccine as soon as possible. It is reported that WHO said that Uk-based AstraZeneca was leading the chart for creating the vaccine of the deadly corona virus furthermore they added that the US-Based vaccine Moderna was not far behind.

However there has been many drugs which have shown positive results but the the proper cure or treatment is no where to found right now.

According to the Global Times the vaccine made by china shows promising results on human trials. According to the Chinese company around 1200 volunteers of phase 1 and phase 2 showed effective improvement after the dosage.

FIR against Ramdev, Patanjalli for Coronil drug.

An FIR has been filed against Yoga guru Ramdev by the Rajasthan police for reportedly launching an Ayrvedic drug for curing the dangerous corona virus but it has come to notice that there is no approval on the following product which is said by a senior officer. The drug named as Coronil was launched on Tuesday which claimed that it can cure the virus. They reported that when taken with some other Patanjalli products it has cured all the patients who took part in the trial within a period of 7 days.

Top Athletes Who Tested Positive For Covid-19.

The global pandemic has changed the living aspects of everyone across the globe. The sporting world has unfortunately come on hold due to the covid-19 outbreak except some of the football leagues which have been given the green light to play behind closed doors and many other restrictions. The pandemic has had major impact not only on the sporting world but on all types of channels such as food, industries, education etc. The virus outbreak had spread so fast across the globe and had contained different athletes from all over the globe. Some of the famous athletes are mentioned below.

1- Paulo Dybala

Paulo Dybala is a famous football player from Argentina playing professional football in the Italian league for Juventus football club. Paulo Dybala and his girlfriend were diagnosed with the covid-19 in the month of march. The football star informed the news of them being contained with the virus on twitter in the early march. However later on Dybala had tested negative for the covid-19 twice. The player had successfully recovered from the virus and was free to play and leave isolation. After the results Dybala tweeted “Many people talked in the past weeks… but i can finally confirm that i am healed.Thank you once again for your support and my thoughts on who are still suffering from it. Take care! He tweeted.

2- Shahid Afridi

The former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi had tested positive for covid-19 as star himself revealed about it on twitter the last week. The player had addressed that the first few days were really tough but now he is improving and there is no need to worry and panic. The former Pakistan all rounder added that he was not able to spend time with his children as he had contained the virus and misses them but it is important to take precautionary measure until the start is fit and fine he added. Afridi also addressed the nation that he knew he would be at a higher risk of catching the virus as he was traveling a lot for charity work. On the contrary it is reported that 7 more Pakistani cricket players had tested positive for covid-19.

3- Novak Djokovic


Novak Djokovic is world’s number 1 tennis player who was supposed to play in a final on sunday had reported that he and his wife had tested positive for the virus while the children had tested negative. This all took place during an exhibition event which took place in Croatia. The Adria tour had taken place in Zadar last weekend and created a lot of controversy regarding the social distancing and certain other precautionary protocols. The tennis star apologized about the tournament and said that it was too soon and also added that the organizers world share health resources among the people who have attended the event. The star added that he and his wife would stay in complete 14 days isolation and also perform the test again in a span of 5 days.

4- Paolo Maldini

The Italian football legend Maldini and his son Daniel had tested positive for covid-19 in the month of march. During the time Italy was under severe lock down and the death tally was at its peak. But soon enough it was reported that both the father and son had recovered successfully by isolating themselves at home for 2 weeks and not being in contact with anyone.

5- Kevin Durant

The Brooklyn nets star Kevin Durant had tested positive for the covid-19 late in may and wasn’t really overthinking about it as he said “I’m alive and that’s it and that’s all i can tell you that i’m good and he also added that he had a lot of support if he wanted to talk to someone. The star was not much concerned about the virus but the Achilles Tear that kept him out for a long time.