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Delhi: Fire at 9th floor of AIIMS brought under control, no casualty repor
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): The fire that broke out here at the ninth floor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital has been brought under control and no casualties have been reported yet, said the Fire Department on Thursday.
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Saliva can be more effective than nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testin
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): According to a new study, the addition of a simple processing step to saliva samples before testing may improve the COVID-19 detection rate, eliminate the challenges of nasopharyngeal testing, and facilitate mass surveillance.
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Floating bodies in Ganga: Bihar sends samples from river for COVID-19 cont
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], June 10 (ANI): Days after bodies were found floating in Ganga in the state, samples collected from the river have been sent for testing to check for COVID-19 contamination in the water, informed Bihar State Pollution Control Board Scientist, Navin Kumar.
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Enquiry against health workers in UP's Basti after video of 'negligence' h
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Basti (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 6 (ANI): Health department workers were caught on camera allegedly packing up RTPCR test kits without taking the requisite samples from Covid-19 patients in Basti in Uttar Pradesh.
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Study on harnessing next generation sequencing to detect SARS-CoV-2
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], May 25 (ANI): During the pandemic, it is extremely critical to detect the virus at the beginning stage, and in a move to achieve the same a team of researchers at the Vienna BioCenter designed a testing protocol for SARS-CoV-2 that can process tens of thousands of samples i
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Bengaluru-based start-up develops ELISA test for accurate detection of COV
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): A Bangalore-based start-up has developed a novel, point-of-care Electrochemical ELISA test to estimate accurate antibody concentration of COVID-19 in clinical samples, informed the Union Science and Technology Ministry on Saturday.
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Probe ordered into Andhra 'ayurvedic Covid cure'; drug samples sent for an
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 22 (ANI): The Nellore District Administration on Friday stopped the distribution of a "herbal medicine" that is being given as a "cure for COVID-19" by an ayurvedic practitioner in Krishnapatnam village of Nellore's Krishnapatnam town.
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DST funded start-up's ELISA test to better estimate COVID 19 antibody conc
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): A Department of Science and Technology (DST) supported technology-- Electrochemical ELISA test -- enables fast and accurate estimation of antibody concentration of COVID-19 in clinical samples, Ministry of Science and Technology said on Saturday.
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16 COVID-19 variants found active in Uttarakhand, says state health dept
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 17 (ANI): At least 16 variants of coronavirus have been found active in Uttarakhand, according to a report of samples sent by the state government for genome sequencing for the virus.
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Community circulation of SARS-CoV-2 virions
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 11 (ANI): Researchers analysed around 72,500 human saliva samples for SARS-CoV-2 at the University of Colorado, Boulder and found that asymptomatic individuals on the college campus carried just as much virus as individuals hospitalised with COVID-19.
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Samples of lion, owls from Delhi zoo test negative for COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): The samples of a lion and two owls from Delhi zoo have tested negative for COVID-19, informed officials on Saturday.
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Ludhiana: Committee set up to ensure culling of poultry birds after confir
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], May 8 (ANI): After the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal on Friday confirmed Avian Influenza in the samples of birds at Suba Singh Poultry farm in Kila Raipur here, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma constituted a nine-member commit
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