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After 1st COVID Delta variant case in Chandigarh, Haryana to set up genome
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Orders have been given for the setting up of a lab for genome sequencing at the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak after the first Delta Plus COVID variant was found in Chandigarh.
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Chandigarh reports first case of Delta Plus COVID-19 variant
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], June 27 (ANI): The first case of the Delta plus COVID variant and 33 cases of the Delta variant have been reported in Chandigarh.
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Doubts about China's transparency on the COVID-19 pandemic origins piling
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Jesse Bloom, a virologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, discovered the deletion of some early sequences of coronavirus from Wuhan which were missing from the Sequence Read Archive, a public archive of high through
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No need to panic about Delta Plus variant, says Karnataka Health Minister
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 25 (ANI): There is no need to panic about the Delta Plus variant of the Covid-19 virus, said Health and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Friday, adding that genomic sequencing labs will be set up at six places.
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Indonesia detects 211 more contagious variants of concern
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], June 23 (ANI/Xinhua): As many as 211 or 9.41 per cent of the total 2,242 samples of COVID-19 cases tested with the whole genome sequencing method in Indonesia are more contagious variants of concern, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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COVID-19: INSACOG to release genomic surveillance bulletin on Delta Plus v
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequencing Consortia (INSACOG) - a consortium of four city clusters -- Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Pune -- will formally release the genomic surveillance bulletin on Delta Plus variant soon, according to government sources.
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Four lions at Chennai's Arignar Anna Zoological Park found infected with d
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 19 (ANI): The Genome sequencing analysis of four samples taken from lions at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur revealed that they were all affected by the delta (B.1.617.2) variant of COVID-19.
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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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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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Senior virologist Shahid Jameel quits as Chairman of Centre's Covid genome
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): Senior virologist Shahid Jameel on Sunday resigned as the chairman of scientific advisory group of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), a forum set up by union government in December last year for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance of cir
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Covid-19 virus is more aggressive, need to work together to fight it, says
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): Work is being done on genome sequencing of coronavirus and mutations and the repercussions and this virus is more aggressive than others, German Ambassador to India Walter J Lindner has said and noted that countries have to come together to fight the pandemic.
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Khushi Fertility & IVF Centre rules out mental retardation in babies
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 30 (ANI/PNN): In a first-of-its-kind multidimensional IVF treatment in the country, Khushi Fertility and IVF Centre, a pioneering Bengaluru -based fertility centre specialising in the latest Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) implemented Clinical Ex
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