Tag: COVID-19
DBT-BIRAC backed COVID-19 Research Consortium funds 16 proposals, seeks more applications
Proposals have been sought on the development of diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, and other interventions. Among 500 applications received so far, 16 proposals have been recommended for funding support
COVID-19: Plasma Therapy helps critical patient recover well, get off ventilator
The 49-year-old critically ill patient was administered fresh plasma as a treatment modality as a side-line to standard treatment protocols and he showed progressive improvement......................
COVID-19: TDB supports Pune based MyLab to ramp up production of...
Mylab Discovery Solutions is the first indigenous company to develop real-time PCR based molecular diagnostic kit that screens and detects COVID 19 from samples of people who display flu-like symptoms..................
COVID-19: Private healthcare sector in financial distress, reveals FICCI-EY Study
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an adverse impact on the private healthcare sector resulting in 70 – 80% drop in footfall, test volumes and 50-70% drop in revenue in last ten days of March; expected to sustain in month of April with continued lock down...........
COVID-19: Max Healthcare to conduct testing for all 24,000 employees &...
All patients admitted across the network hospitals in the non-COVID wards and new patients will also be tested (at the time of admission) so as to ensure that hospitals remain safe...................
COVID-19 doesn’t only infect lungs but also kidneys, say experts
As per expert studies, 25-50% of the people infected with COVID-19 reported developing symptoms of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).................
C-CIDA announces its Week 3 Stars with deep science technologies to...
Centre for Cellular And Molecular Platforms or C-CAMP's COVID-19 Innovations Accelerator (C-CIDA) has announced its Week 3 Stars with deep science technologies to impact India’s Coronavirus battle.................
COVID-19: CSIR-IMTECH begins whole genome sequencing of SARS-Cov-2
CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) will carry out genome sequencing of coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 to understand its evolution and mutation pattern.................
COVID-19: A new diagnostic kit promises to detect infection in four...
A kit under development by the researchers at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram promises to help detect SARS CoVID-19 infection as early as four days post-infection of the virus...................
India must prepare for manufacturing millions of low-cost ventilators
The Government of India should constitute a highly empowered task force which will carry out the tasks needed to start the production of the low-cost ventilators at a war-footing, write By Prof. V. Eswaran and Prof. B.S. Murty, Director, IIT Hyderabad.............