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Scientists at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune have developed an indigenous NP swab for collecting samples from the throat cavity of COVID-19 patients......................

Durgapur-based Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) researchers have indigenously developed a ventilator amid rising cases of COVID-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 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....................

Reverse Transcriptase-Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP) based COVID-19 diagnostic kit is a rapid, accurate and cost-effective test that can be done with indigenous components and set up with minimal expertise and instrumentation..................

The two mobile indoor Disinfection Sprayer units developed by scientists at CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur can be used for cleaning and disinfecting pathogenic micro-organism effectively, especially in hospitals........................

The CSIR is working with Intel India and International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, to help achieve faster and less expensive COVID-19 testing and coronavirus genome sequencing to understand the epidemiology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based risk stratification for patients with co-morbidities................

CSIR through its NMITLI program approves a multi institutional project to develop human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 in patients. The project will be implemented by National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), IIT-Indore and PredOmix Technologies with Bharat Biotech International, as the commercialization partner...........................

Feluda is a rapid diagnostic kit for COVID-19, developed indigenously by IGIB, a CSIR institution...................

The Compendium carries information about 200 COVID-19-related Indian technologies, ongoing research activities, technologies available for commercialization, initiatives and efforts taken by the Government of India, categorized under 3Ts of Tracking, Testing and Treating....................