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  • Court orders ‘rapist’ to wash women’s clothes for six months

    Court orders ‘rapist’ to wash women’s clothes for six months

    A man in Bihar, India, accused of attempted rape was granted bail on the condition that he will wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months.

    As per reports, the 20-year-old Lalan Kumar will have to buy detergent and other products to provide six months of free laundry services to about 2,000 women in the village of Majhor, a court said on Wednesday.

    Kumar, who washes clothes for a living, was detained in April on charges including attempted rape, Santosh Kumar Singh, a police officer, said.

    No date has been set for his trial.

    “All the women in the village are happy with the court decision,” Nasima Khatoon, the village head, said.

    “It is historic. It will boost respect for women and help to protect the dignity,” added Khatoon, one of the villagers who will monitor Kumar.

    Women in the village said the order had made a positive effect by making crime against women a subject of discussion in their community.

  • Antibodies from Sinovac’s Covid-19 shot fade after six months, booster helps: study

    Antibodies formed by Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine drop below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a third shot could have a strong boosting impact, a lab study has revealed. 

    According to details, Chinese researchers reported the results from a study of blood samples from healthy adults aged between 18-59 in a paper published on Sunday, which has not been peer-reviewed, reports Reuters.

    For participants receiving two doses, two or four weeks apart, only 16.9% and 35.2% respectively still had a level of neutralising antibodies above the threshold six months after the second dose, the paper said.

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    Those readings were based on data from two groups involving more than 50 participants each, while the study gave third doses to a total of 540 participants.

    When participants in some cohorts were given a third dose, about six months after the second, neutralising antibody levels after a further 28 days had increased around 3-5 fold from the levels seen four weeks after the second dose, the study showed.

    The study was conducted by researchers at disease control authorities in Jiangsu province, Sinovac, and other Chinese institutions.

    Researchers notified the study did not test the antibodies’ effect against more contagious variants, and that further research was required to assess antibody duration after a third shot.