Corona Virus Pandemic and the QUAD Countries

 These important country groupings for mutual economic benefits have also suffered. Only two of its members seem to have done good. Here is a pictorial to illustrate with data from the JHU.

Looks like India and Japan have not been doing well recently. It is critical for Japan hosting the Olympics in a matter of few weeks. It surely does not bode well for Japan.

FabiFlu for corona virus COVID-19 approved in India

FabiFlu is the first oral favipiravir-approved medication in India for the treatment of Covid-19

More here: https://tinyurl.com/y8g2jyyh

What is FabiFlu?

According to Glenmark, India:

•It is a prescription-based medication, with recommended dose being 1,800 mg twice daily on day one, followed by 800 mg twice daily up to day 14, the drug firm said.

•Available Through Retail & Hospital Channels

•200 Mg Tablet, 34 Tablets in A Strip, ₹103/Tablet ..Strip MRP ₹3500

•The company is producing the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) for the product at its Ankleshwar plant, while the formulation is being manufactured at its Baddi plant.

•Finally A Good News In Fight Against COVID19. It's Launched Under Brand Name FabiFlu.

•FabiFlu(Favipiravir ) has shown clinical improvement of up to 88 per cent in mild to moderate COVID-19 cases.

Who makes it in India?

Source: IndiaNewsTV.com

Glenmark launches Covid-19 drug at Rs 103 per tablet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenmark_Pharmaceuticals

Who made the original Favipiravir?

FabiFlu is same as Avigan in Japan. Avigan was developed in 2014 by Fujifilm Toyama Chemical, a unit of Fujifilm Holdings.

According to FujiFilm spokesperson,

“Avigan is a viral RNA polymerase inhibitor, with a new mechanism of action that inhibits viral gene replication within infected cells,”.

Japan is testing Avigan in 43 countries.

More here: https://tinyurl.com/yaek2jxv

Corona Virus Data-April 2020

This chart is based on data from the following source. Only data for India, Japan, and Singapore are extracted.

Data of interest from April 01 - April 29

https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/owid-covid-data.xlsx

2018 Sumie Society of Hawaii exhibition

On April 27th the exhibition closes. It is an unique event with exhibits by all those who participate in the Sumie Society of Hawaii.

If you cannot make it. you can still see it here:

https://youtu.be/7KplR7ZdRKA

The Venue :

The following were randomly chosen. The YouTube video has most of the exhibits (almost all).

Deixe-nos trabalhar com serviços de nuvem Azure -Azure in Brazil

Microsoft has announced Azure service from Brazil through its Azure South region located in Sao Paulo. It is now available for public preview. With Locally Redundant Storage data can remain in Brazil.

Nature of Locally redundant replication:
With locally redundant replication, storage account data is replicated three times within the same data center. Locally redundant replication is offered at discounted rates.

Note that changing from Locally redundant replication to geo-replication will incur additional costs.

More on Locally Redundant Replication here.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-manage-storage-account/

According to Microsoft,
"The Azure website has been updated to provide detailed information on service availability and pricing for the new region. Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Storage, SQL Database, Web Sites, and Data Transfers hosted from Brazil South will be offered at a discount during the preview period. "

Brazil joins other countries in hosting the center