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Delhi zoo sends samples of some animals for COVID-19 testing at IVRI Barei
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Samples of some of the animals including a lion had been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) in Bareilly for testing of COVID-19 infection, said National Zoological Park authorities.
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Research data doesn't establish N440K variant is 'very virulent': Andhra C
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 6 (ANI): With various media reports claiming that the N440K variant prevailing in different parts of Andhra Pradesh is much more dangerous than the previous variants of COVID-19, the state government sent some samples to CCMB Hyderabad for testing and
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CCMB comes up with new COVID-19 testing method using dry swab
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 30 (ANI): Rakesh Mishra, Director of Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), on Friday said that they have come up with a new way of collecting COVID-19 samples using a dry swab technique/method for testing.
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New testing strategy likely to speed up COVID-19 test results for healthca
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Philadelphia [US], April 26 (ANI): While it is known that fast turnaround of COVID-19 test results for healthcare workers is critical, a team of investigators have now developed a coronavirusus testing strategy that maximises the proportion of negative results after a single round of test
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Labs in Delhi halt services over delay in giving out test results amid COV
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): A rapid rise in COVID-19 cases and exceeding requests for either RT-PCR or antigen tests has abruptly forced a majority of private laboratories to stop collecting swab samples even from testing centres for at least two days.
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UK, mutant COVID-19 strains found in samples tested in U'khand
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], April 20 (ANI): Two UK strains and a mutant strain of coronavirus were found in three samples which were sent for testing to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Delhi from Dehradun.
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Researchers find with impressive accuracy, dogs can sniff out coronavirus
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], April 17 (ANI): A proof-of-concept investigation published today in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that specially trained detection dogs can sniff out COVID-19-positive samples with 96 per cent accuracy.
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As part of state-wide mass testing for COVID-19, Kerala's Ernakulam collec
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], April 17 (ANI): As part of a State-wide mass testing drive to contain the spread of COVID-19, Kerala's Ernakulam district has collected 16,210 samples for testing on Friday, District Collector S Suhas said.
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COVID-19: 70 pc samples mostly from Chandigarh sent to NCDC for testing in
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], April 16 (ANI): Amid the surge of coronavirus cases across the country, 70 per cent of Covid-19 samples sent to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, in March had the UK variant of
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HC asks Delhi govt to reply to plea against illegal collection of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Delhi government to file a reply on a plea seeking initiation of contempt action against authorities for not adhering to the earlier direction to take action against unauthorised online health service aggregators f
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Coronavirus: 9 samples of UK mutant strain, 4 double mutant found in Jhark
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], April 15 (ANI): Nine samples of UK mutant strain and four of the double mutant variant of coronavirus were found in Jharkhand on Wednesday.
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Harmful effects of vaping are comparable with smoking
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bristol [UK], April 11 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists from the tobacco company Imperial Brands utilised Toxys' ToxTracker suite of stem-cell-based in-vitro assays. This provided mechanistic insight into the potential DNA damaging properties of chemicals and compared the vape e-liqu
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