May 05, 2021 21 – 23, APRIL 2022 Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) BENGALURU, INDIA INDEX INDUSTRY NEWS.............................................................................. 3 - 9 INDUSTRY UPDATES......................................................................... 10 - 15 NEW TECHNOLOGIES......................................................................... 16 PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES........................................................ 17 MEDIA SPEAK.................................................................................. 18 - 21 ROOF INDIA 2022.............................................................................. 22 SOME LEADING COMPANIES AT THE EVENT.................................... 23- 25 Can I book my appointment for vaccination Voter ID (EPIC). INDUSTRY NEWS from April 28? Is vaccination free at all vaccination No. The link is open only for registration. The centres? appointments or scheduling of vaccination Currently, vaccination is free at government will be available from May 1 onwards. hospitals and charged at INR 250 in private Can I get a vaccination without an hospitals for citizens aged 45 years and appointment? above. This will cease to exist from May 1, The government says that citizens aged 18- and even those above the age of 45 years will 44 years should mandatorily register have to pay at private facilities that cost fixed themselves and schedule appointments by the private hospital. online before vaccination. On-spot For people between 18 to 44 years, the States registration or walk-in facility is currently not will announce the policy relating to payment. allowed at private hospitals for the 18-44 Most states have announced that they will years age group. offer it for free at government centres. Will I get an appointment after May 1? However, at private vaccination sites, the From May 1, state governments and private cost will be decided by the private hospitals hospitals will procure 50 percent of total and you can see the price of each vaccine at doses directly from the open market to the time of booking. vaccinate the 18-44 year age group. The Can I check the price of the vaccine? availability of slots will depend on the Yes. The system from May 1 will show the availability of doses. price of the vaccine below the name of the Due to limited doses, several states will have vaccination centre at the time of scheduling their own priority groups within the 18-44 an appointment. years age group. This state-specific Can I choose the vaccine? Covid-19 vaccine registration for 18-44 information will soon get reflected on the Co- Yes. The System will show the vaccine being age group begins: All you need to know win when you can make appointments administered in each vaccination centre at When can those between 18-44 years of age Is there any registration charge to be paid? the time of scheduling an appointment. register for vaccination? Where does one No, there is no registration charge. Citizens can choose the vaccination centre have to register? How many people can be registered in the as per their choice of vaccine being Those in the age group of 18-44 years can Co-WIN portal through one mobile number? administered However, the choice will not be register from April 28; the registrations have Up to 4 people can be registered for available at the Government facilities. started from 4:00 pm onwards. You can log vaccination using the same mobile number. What are the options if one citizen is aged 45 into the Co-WIN portal using the link Can I register for vaccination without an or above and another is aged 18 or above? http://www.cowin.gov.in and click on the Aadhaar card? If one citizen is aged 45 or above and another “Register/Sign In yourself” tab to register for Yes, you can register on the Co-WIN portal citizen is aged 18 to 44 years and both want the COVID-19 vaccination. Alternatively, you using any of the following ID proofs: Aadhaar to schedule a combined appointment, then can also register for vaccination through the card ; Driving License; PAN card; Passport; only private paid vaccination centres or Aarogya Setu App. Pension Passbook; NPR Smart Card; and vaccination centres as per state's policy will 3 COVID-19 Second Wave In India May Peak divided the patient population into By Mid-May, Predict Scientists At IIT asymptomatic and Infected, the new model The ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 also accounts for the fact that some fraction pandemic in India may peak between May of asymptomatic patients could also be 11-15 with 33-35 lakh total 'active'' cases and detected due to contact tracing and other decline steeply by the end of May, according such protocols. to a mathematical module devised by IIT Earlier this month, the mathematical scientists. modelling approach predicted that active On Friday, India saw a single-day rise of infections in the country would peak by April 3,32,730 (3.32 lakh) COVID-19 infections and 15 but this didn't come true. 2,263 fatalities with 24,28,616 (24.28 lakh) "The parameters in our model for the current active cases. phase are continuously drifting. So it is hard In predicting that the active cases would go to get their value right," said Mr Agrawal. up by about 10 lakh by mid-May before "Even a little bit of change each day causes sliding, scientists from the Indian Institute of the peak numbers to change by several Technology in Kanpur and Hyderabad thousand," he explained. applied the 'Susceptible, Undetected, Tested The IIT Kanpur professor added that the be made available. However, it may happen (positive), and Removed Approach'' (SUTRA) SUTRA model's prediction of the new peak is that some hospitals which are catering to model. sensitive to the daily new infections data. people with 45 years or more may not allow The scientists also said Delhi, Haryana, Mr Agrawal noted that the model uses three the booking of appointments for people with Rajasthan and Telangana may see a high of main parameters to predict the course of the lesser age. In that case you may make new cases by April 25-30, while Maharashtra pandemic. bookings one by one. and Chhattisgarh might already have "The first is called beta, or contact rate, which If I am Covid-19 positive, when can I get my reached their peak in new cases. measures how many people an infected vaccine shot? "We have found that there is a reasonable person infects per day. It is related to the R0 The centre has specified three categories of chance that the active cases in India could value, which is the number of people an temporary contraindications. For people in peak sometime between May 11-15 with 33- infected person spreads the virus to over the these categories, vaccination is to be 35 lakh cases. It is a sharp slope, but on the course of their infection," Mr Agrawal deferred for four-eight weeks after recovery. way down, it would likely be equally sharp, explained. These categories are: persons having active coming down very fast and by end of May The other two parameters are 'reach'', which symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection; Covid- may see a dramatic reduction," Manindra is a measure of the exposure level of the 19 patients who have been given anti-SARS- Agrawal, professor at the Department of population to the pandemic, and 'epsilon'' Cov-2 monoclonal antibodies or Computer Science and Engineering, IIT- which is the ratio of detected and undetected convalescent plasma; and acutely unwell Kanpur, told news agency Press Trust of cases. and hospitalised — with or without intensive India. There are other mathematical modules as care — patients due to “any illness”. The scientists in the as yet unpublished study well. – The Indian Express said there are several novel features in the Independent calculations by Gautam Menon SUTRA model. Whereas previous papers and his team at Ashoka University in Haryana 4 India imports 20 cryogenic oxygen India’s total active cases, the government tankers said adding that the national cumulative In the backdrop of acute shortage of medical fatality rate or CFR has been falling and oxygen in certain parts of the country due to currently stands at 1.12 per cent. unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases, the The government has so far administered government on Tuesday said it has imported 14,52,71,186 vaccines with 33,59,963 shots 20 cryogenic tankers of 10 MT and 20 MT given in a single day till 8:00 AM in the capacity and allocated them to states of morning. Meanwhile, from Wednesday, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, registrations for phase 3 vaccination drive Delhi, and Gujarat. for those above 18 years of age will open up “The mapping of liquid medical oxygen on CoWin platform. The vaccines will be (LMO) from the manufacturing plant to injected in the eligible candidates from May 1 different states being a dynamic process and to curtail the unrelenting spike in coronavirus transportation of medical oxygen through cases. cryogenic tankers becoming a bottleneck in India-US talk making available LMO from the eastern part On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the country to other parts, twenty had a telephonic conversation with US cryogenic ISO containers of capacity 20 MT President Joe Biden on the evolving Covid and 10 MT have been imported to augment situation. Modi discussed about India’s the transportation of Oxygen,” the Health ongoing efforts to contain the second wave Ministry said in a statement. of the pandemic and Biden offered his Meanwhile, after a record high in the previous assistance in India’s endeavour to fight the day, daily Covid-19 cases came down to deadly virus. 3,23,144 on Tuesday with 2,771 deaths till 8 Besides that, AIIMs Director Randeep am on Tuesday, according to the Health Guleria, urged people to use hospital Ministry data.