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With 44,281 new cases, India's COVID tally surpasses 86-lakh mark
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 11 (ANI): India's coronavirus count climbed to 86,36,012 after reporting 44,281 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Wednesday.
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COVID-19: RT-PCR test conducted at IIT Delhi at just Rs 1200
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 4 (ANI): An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) approved and National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accredited laboratory JITM Skills Pvt. Ltd. is offering RT-PCR COVID-19 test at just Rs 1,200 at the sample collectio
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Children can be spreaders or super-spreaders of COVID-19: ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Children can be spreaders or super-spreaders of COVID-19, said Dr Balram Bhargava, Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), on Tuesday.
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ICMR issues advisory on CRISPR technology-based SARS CoV-2 test
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday issued an advisory on the CRISPR SARS CoV-2 test that has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India for COVID-19 detection.
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'Too early to say', AIIMS on ICMR observation on discontinuing plasma the
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): Even as the Indian Council of Medical Research announced that plasma therapy may soon be discontinued from the Covid-19 national treatment protocol, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi's Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Thursday said th
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IIT Kharagpur's low cost COVID-19 testing method gets ICMR nod
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kharagpur (West Bengal) [India], October 22 (ANI): A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur has developed a low-cost portable unit for rapid diagnostics of coronavirus, which produces results in under an hour.
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Delhi Health Minister asks ICMR to not remove plasma therapy from COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): After an India Council of Medical Research(ICMR) made an announcement that it may remove plasma therapy from COVID-19 national treatment protocol, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain asked the council to not do so.
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Delhi HC asks ICMR, CSIR to reply on pendency of approval to FELUDA test f
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court asked Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to file affidavits regarding pendency of approvals to 'FELUDA', a test used for detecting COVID-19 infection.
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Plasma therapy may be removed from national Covid-19 treatment guidelines:
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 20 (ANI): Convalescent Plasma Therapy may be removed from the national guideline for the treatment of novel coronavirus after an India Council of Medical Research study revealed that it did not help in reducing mortality or slow the progression of Covid-19, the ICM
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COVID-19 re-infection possible if antibodies in recovered person reduce wi
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 20 (ANI): There is a possibility of re-infection, if antibodies reduce in the body of a Covid-19 recovered person in five months time after the recovery, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General Dr Balram Bhargava said on Tuesday.
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A quarter of population underestimates skin cancer risk: Queensland study
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Queensland (Australia) [India], October 20 (ANI): A research conducted in Queensland has revealed that almost a quarter of the population here underestimates their risk of developing potentially deadly melanomas - with those at highest risk worst at predicting their chances of getting the sk
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India to have 13.9 lakh cancer cases by year-end, 15.7 lakh by 2025: ICMR
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): The National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) Report 2020 has estimated that based on current trends there will be 13.9 lakh cancer cases across the country by the end of 2020, the Indian Council of Medical Research said on Friday.
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