India unlikely to witness a huge surge in cases in September
On April 24 last year, at the daily Health Ministry briefing, NITI Aayog member Dr. V.K. Paul presented a chart predicting the trend of COVID-19 cases in India. With over…
Category: Genome sequencing
How can India contain the second wave?
When do you think the second wave is likely to peak? And when we see such a peak, what do you think will be the number of daily cases? Gautam…
As cases spike in a few States, what is causing a decline in Kerala?
Even as recently as March 6, March 4, March 3, March 2 and March 1 the Health Ministry mischievously implicated Kerala for the surge in cases when it included Kerala…
ACTREC’s automated tool makes SARS-CoV-2 genome mutation analysis easy
The IPD tool has been already designed to perform analysis of diverse genomic datasets, which came handy while analysing diverse data sets of SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been uploaded to the…
A case of coronavirus reinfection in Hong Kong confirmed by genome sequencing
Using genome sequencing, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have found a rare instance of reinfection with novel coronavirus for the second time, four-and-a-half months after the first infection.…
CCMB, IGIB start sequencing novel coronavirus genome
With CSIR labs now permitted to test samples of novel coronavirus, Hyderabad-based CCMB and Delhi-based IGIB have started sequencing the genome. CCMB has already sequenced the genome of five isolates.…
Soon all 52 labs to confirm COVID-19 cases, but what about sequencing?
Finally, by March 13, to avoid delay, all 52 labs will be able to confirm novel coronavirus cases without sending samples to NIV Pune for confirmation. Similarly, it’s time India…
SARS-CoV-2: Finally, India shares genome sequence data with GISAID
A day after I reported that India has not shared genome sequence data of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) with GISAID, NIV shared two sequences on March 5. India has finally…
