Single dose of Sputnik V Covid vaccine triggers strong antibody response: StudyThe new study, published on Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, examined whether a single dose would achieve greater public healt...
IISc start-up PathShodh gets regulatory approvals for Covid-19 testPathShodh has received the license from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) to manufacture the test for sale, IISc said...
Sero survey shows 27% of healthcare workers in Kashmir have antibodies against COVID-19"A sero prevalence study was conducted by Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar among healthcare providers of the Kashmir Division in ...
India had estimated 74 mn COVID-19 infections by August: ICMR's 2nd national sero surveyIt stated that one in nine individuals who did not report any COVID-19-related symptoms in the past had the presence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG anti...
Serosurvey suggests around 2 crore people in Karnataka may have got Covid by mid-SeptemberThe survey report that was made public on Wednesday revealed that Bengaluru’s exposure to Covid at 29.8% is slightly higher compared to the...
Nearly 2 crore people in Karnataka were COVID-19 infected, says government surveySharing details of the findings, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said the survey was carried out from September 3 to 16 across 30 d...
Tamil Nadu allows shops to remain open till 10pm from Thursday; Covid cases remain under 4000Testing, however, remained lower than usual with 80,348 people tested on Wednesday, a drop from the whopping 93,844 people who were tested ...
Sero-survey conducted in August finds no antibodies in 30% of recovered COVID-19 patientsAbout 15,000 representative samples were taken in the August 1-7 survey from 11 districts and tested for antibodies (IgG) against the virus.
COVID-19: As economy reopens, labs getting mass test requests from corporates"We are getting antigen test queries mostly through the government. We are also getting queries from corporates that have large employee po...
Delhi's sero-prevalence study finds 23.48 per cent people affected by Covid-19The study, which was conducted from June 27 to July 10 by the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with the Delhi go...
ICMR comes out with list of antibody detection kits to be used for sero-surveysThe apex health research body has so far approved three batches of 'COVID Kavach ELISA IgG kits' developed by Zydus Cadila Healthcare Ltd, ...
Covid-19: Tests soon to gauge immunity levelsIn the initial stage of the population-based serological survey, blood samples will be collected from 800 individuals from each of the sele...
National Institute of Virology develops 1st indigenous antibody detection kit for COVID: Harsh Vardhan"National Institute of Virology, Pune, has successfully developed the 1st indigenous anti-SARS-CoV-2 human IgG ELISA test kit for antibody ...
Local players keen to fill the China void, manufacture testing kitsDomestic manufacturers of rapid antibody rapid test kits for novel coronavirus have approached the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR...
View: Combining sampling and testing can be most effective to get the economy back on trackGovernments can combine strategies to conduct randomised testing to plan exit out of lockdown.
Antibody kits arrive from China, but only for surveillanceThese kits, also known as serological testing kits, are not meant for early diagnosis or detection of the disease, said Raman Gangakhedkar,...
Boost your immune system to lower heart attack riskThe study shows a link between the amount of IgG antibodies in a person's blood & their likelihood of being protected against a heart attac...