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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.…
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…
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…
Even as 23 countries, including Nepal, Vietnam and Cambodia, have shared genome sequence data of the novel coronavirus, India has not. Till date, 159 sequence data of the virus have…
A Shanghai-based lab which was the first to sequence the whole genome of the novel coronavirus and publicly share the sequence data was shut down for “rectification”, a day after…
Between December 8, 2019 and January 2, 2020, 41 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China were infected with a novel coronavirus. One person has died and seven patients…
The influenza A(H7N9) virus, a novel bird flu strain that emerged in China, has infected nine people and already killed three. Unlike the H5N1 virus that is widely endemic in…
Published in The Hindu on July 21, 2011 Increase in human life expectancy produces a concomitant increase in the number of harmful mutations and accumulation of different forms of damages,…
