Tag: COVID-19

The Hisar (Haryana) based National Centre for Veterinary Type Cultures (NCVTC) will screen their library of 94 small molecule chemical inhibitors for antivirals against coronaviruses. These are believed to have fewer tendencies in inducing drug resistance................

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.................

The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (Office of PSA) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have jointly initiated a decentralized, bottom-up, and inclusive process for the formulation of a new national Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020)..................

Syngene has indigenously developed an anti-COV-2 IgG ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay) at its research facility in Bengaluru. Having partnered with Hi-Media, the commercialized kit will be launched under the brand name ELISafe 19...............

A COVID-19 testing laboratory has been established in the Jorhat campus of the North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST). It was inaugurated recently by the Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Assam's Minister of Health and Family Welfare................

The kits will be based on RT-LAMP (Reverse Transcriptase Loop-Mediated Amplification) technology for COVID-19 detection which can produce results in significantly less time thereby increasing the throughput of labs in India.....................

The four Bio Repositories under the purview of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) are NCR-Biotech Science Cluster including THSTI, Faridabad – Clinical samples and RCB Faridabad –Viral samples; Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar;  InStem, Bangalore;  and ILBS, New Delhi....................

The pharma industry received accolades from the Commerce Minister, Piyush Goyal for its extra-ordinary performance, in ensuring that the country did not face any type of shortage of medicines during this period....................

The 67 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients may present with additional organ dysfunction syndromes....................