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New teams to be recruited at PHCs, CHCs in Goa to collect swab: State Heal
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], July 6 (ANI): New teams will be recruited on a contractual basis in Goa to designate them at respective Primary Health Centres (PHC) and Community Health Centres (CHC), who will report to the health officers, and dedicatedly work on collecting swabs and coordinate with
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Combating COVID-19: NCL-CSIR develops indigenous nasopharyngeal swabs
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), a lab under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Saturday said that it has developed an indigenous nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs for collecting samples from the throat cavity of COVID-19 patients.
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Sree Chitra Tirunal medical institute Kerala develops swabs for COVID-19 t
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 3 (ANI): Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has developed two types of nasal and oral swabs and viral transport medium for COVID-19 testing, the institute said in a statement on Sunday.
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Goa to procure PCR machine in fight against COVID-19: state Health Ministe
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], April 27 (ANI): The Goa Health Ministry is in the process of procuring the latest polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine to speed up its process to test 450-1000 swabs in the fight against COVID-19, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said.
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Pune scientist develops polymer swab for COVID-19 sample collection
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 4 (ANI): A Pune based scientist, Dr Milind Kulkarni, has developed polymer swab for collecting samples of COVID-19 patients.
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Face masks may protect you from staph bacteria
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 14 (ANI): According to a recent study, face masks appear to provide important protection against drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
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Cotton swabs landing 34 kids in emergency rooms each day
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 8 (ANI): Parents, you may want to keep those cotton buds away from your kids as a recent study has found that they are sending 34 children to the emergency department each day.
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