Representational image of passengers arriving at Chennai International Airport | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj B Visitors coming to India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand will no longer be required to furnish a pre-departure COVID-19 test report and upload a self-health declaration on the ‘Air Suvidha’ portal from February 13. The Centre … Read more
Biden also announced that starting next week 1,000 military medical personnel will begin deploying across the country to help overwhelmed medical facilities ease staff shortages due to the highly transmissible omicron variant. President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the government will double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free … Read more
The tests showed that the new preparation increased significantly the RNA yield for testing A new sample preparation method to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 that bypasses the need to extract genetic RNA material of the virus has been developed by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists. This method could potentially reduce time and … Read more
Google has updated its passes system to let Android users store and access a digital copy of their COVID-19 vaccination and test certificates through a dedicated card. Called COVID Card, the new feature will be initially rolling out in the US, followed by other countries. Users will not be required to install any particular app … Read more
Feb. 5, 2021 — The Biden administration is pushing to make quick at-home tests for COVID-19 available to more Americans. In a media call on Friday, Andy Slavitt, the White House senior adviser for the pandemic response, told reporters that the administration was working with six companies to surge manufacturing of at-home test kits … Read more
Coronavirus, Covid-19 cases in Delhi, India: During the Diwali week, Delhi was reporting over 8,000 Coronavirus daily cases. (Reuters image) Coronavirus update: Delhi has started reporting a significantly fewer number of Covid-19 cases in the last three days as Coronavirus infections have been declining across India. However, it must be mentioned that the number of … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued an advisory for the use of indigenously developed Feluda paper strip test, which is based on CRISPR-Cas9 technology for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, by laboratories. The paper-strip uses cutting-edge CRISPR gene-editing technology to identify and target the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes … 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
“The Assembly Speaker and two other MLAs have tested positive for coronavirus,” Vij, who is also the state’s Home Minister, told PTI. (Representational image: Reuters) Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Health Minister Anil Vij confirmed. “The Assembly Speaker and two other MLAs have tested positive for coronavirus,” Vij, … Read more
“Though I underwent a COVID-19 test that came negative, I have decided to go into home quarantine for three days as a precautionary measure,” Khattar said in a tweet in Hindi. (File image) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday, days after he attended a meeting with Jal Shakti Minister … Read more