Tag: Coronavirus

Discussion focused around digital and data-driven healthcare outreach and delivery, indigenous ecosystem, consolidation of back-end operations and mitigation of value chain risks...................

Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare was Chief Guest at the ASSOCHAM organized Web Conference on Relevance and the importance of Health and Wellness in COVID-19.................

At a recent media briefing, Dr Vinod Paul, Member NITI Aayog and Professor K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, summarised activities on COVID-19 related to Science and Technology in the areas of vaccines, drug discovery, diagnostics and testing..................

During the lockdown period, our existing underlying diseases may also trigger in the absence of adequate physical activities and fear of the pandemic, write Jyoti Sharma and S.K. Varshney.................

The objective of the study was to evaluate the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis on trainees and practicing ophthalmologists in India during the lockdown..................

A total of 11 RT-PCR-based indigenous assays were validated and recommended for the testing of COVID-19, as revealed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).....................

Researchers at IIT Delhi have been actively involved in the development of high-functional and specialty textile materials and have successfully commercialized various products earlier too..............

Omnicuris will provide a digital lecture on how to fight against coronavirus. The module that is available on Maharashtra Medical Council’s platform will enable doctors to complete their CME hours needed for the renewal of their license...................

In a major breakthrough, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Pune has developed and validated the indigenous IgG ELISA test for antibody detection for COVID-19. ICMR has also partnered with Zydus Cadila for mass-scale production of the ELISA test kits...................

Minister for Science and Technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan has appreciated CSIR for submitting 53 sequences of COVID-19 genomes to the Global Coronavirus Genome Database, Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID)..................