Government data showed that out of 11.86 lakh Covid tests conducted so far in December, 10.49 lakh were RT-PCR tests. RT-PCR tests account for 88.50 per cent of the total COVID-19 tests conducted so far in December, up from 50 per cent in the corresponding month last year, according to government data.Officials said the increase … Read more
Wastewater surveillance is not new, in fact, various countries have initiated and have been running surveillance on various diseases. Coronavirus second wave in India: India has been witnessing a severe second wave of Covid-19 in the country, and amid a sudden influx of cases in April, the queues for getting tests done had extended to … Read more
About 1800 samples are to be collected cumulatively by this team in two shifts-one in morning between 9 am to 12 pm and one in the afternoon between 2 pm and 4 pm. As the number of Coronavirus cases go up in the national capital, the Covid-19 testing is also being ramped up to trace, … Read more
Two examples of states that contribute the most to India’s infections, but followed different paths, may help illustrate the issue better. The steady rise in Covid-19 infection levels, from an average of 12,520 every day in February – and a low of 8,635 on February 2 – to 16,583 in March so far may or … Read more
The facility in Bengaluru has a maximum manufacturing capacity of 1 crore tests a month. (Image: Thermo Fisher) COVID-19 testing kits in India: Science firm Thermo Fisher Scientific has a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, which is all set to give a push to indigenous technology in India’s fight against COVID-19. The facility would … Read more
Coronavirus testing in India: Talking about the Covid19 testing in India, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that 77.8 lakh tests were conducted last week. (Reuters image) Coronavirus update: India has exceeded 140 per day per million Coronavirus tests advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) by more than five times, the Union Health Ministry … Read more
The data shows that 23 States and UTs have better tests per million than the national average of 49,948. Goa, Delhi, Ladakh, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu are the top five states in this list. India has conducted nearly 15 lakh Coronavirus tests in a single day for the first time. Terming this as “landmark … Read more
On Monday, for instance, Delhi nearly halved testing levels from 62,669 a week ago to 33,733 while Bihar conducted 1.73 lakh tests, most of them using RAT kits. On Monday, India reported its lowest tally of daily infections in the last 20 days, adding 75,083 cases and recording 1,01,468 recoveries. In fact, over the last … Read more
The test makes use of an indigenous, “cutting-edge” CRISPR technology COVID-19 testing: Tata CRISPR low-cost COVID-19 test’s commercial launch approved! The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Saturday approved ‘Feluda’, the Tata Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) test powered by the CSIR-IGIB, for commercial launch, Union Ministry of Science and Technology’s CSIR … Read more
It also said that all asymptomatic health workers and frontline workers should also be tested. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has in its latest advisory advised all the state governments to allow Covid-19 “testing on demand” for people who want to get tested for Coronavirus. The advisory named ‘Advisory on Strategy for COVID-19 … Read more