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At 614, single-day Covid case count is at a 7-month highThe Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog), the network of laboratories set up to monitor genomic variations of the coronavirus, h...21 Dec, 2023, 11.11 AM IST- 'New Covid variant Pirola not yet detected in India'The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog) held a meeting on Friday to review the Covid situation and has not found anything "unus...19 Sep, 2023, 12.21 AM IST
- New Covid variant Pirola not yet detected in India, tight vigil on: Insacog memberInsacog held a review meeting on Friday amidst increasing concern over the BA.2.86 variant, which is informally being termed Pirola. Its me...05 Sep, 2023, 12.39 AM IST
- New Omicron variant driving Covid-19 surge in Delhi: Arvind KejriwalAddressing reporters after chairing a review meeting on the Covid situation in Delhi, Kejriwal, however, said there was no need to worry as...01 Apr, 2023, 12.17 AM IST
- Covid-19: India detects first Omicron subvariant BQ.1 in PuneMeanwhile, the Maharashtra government warned of a COVID-19 spike citing evasive XBB, winter, and festive season. The state reported 17.7 pe...18 Oct, 2022, 06.32 PM IST
- Centre asks states, UTs to screen 2% passengers from each incoming flight through RT-PCRUnion Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan issued the advisory through a letter to states and UTs, referring to the 'Operational Guidelines for ...29 Jun, 2022, 09.05 PM IST
- Secretaries panel may meet today to review plan to tackle XE threatWhile India is yet to report a case of the XE variant - there were reports of a case in Mumbai but the government has denied it - experts s...08 Apr, 2022, 12.34 AM IST
- Govt plans to check sewage load to track Covid spreadAs reported by ET earlier, the department of biotechnology has drawn up a detailed sewage surveillance plan, which will be rolled out throu...16 Mar, 2022, 12.16 AM IST
- Centre planning to test sewage water for COVID-19 virus loadThe department of biotechnology has drawn up a detailed sewage surveillance plan. This plan will be rolled out through the Indian SARS-CoV-...04 Oct, 2021, 08.43 AM IST
- Researchers from IIT Bombay, UK university develop low-cost sensor that can detect Covid in wastewaterThe sensor was tested with wastewater collected from a sewage treatment plant in Mumbai.12 Jun, 2021, 06.34 PM IST
- UK, Indian scientists develop low-cost sensor to detect COVID-19 in wastewaterResearchers from the University of Strathclyde and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have developed a technology that can be ...10 Jun, 2021, 03.56 PM IST
- With rise in COVID cases, sewage surveillance system launched in Bengaluru for early detection of infectionThe drive is an initiative of COVIDActionCollab (CAC) supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the S...27 May, 2021, 03.47 PM IST
- Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine 80 per cent effective against B1.617.2 variant: UK studyThe Oxford/AstraZeneca two-dose vaccine is also being produced by the Serum Institute of India as Covishield and being administered among t...22 May, 2021, 06.11 PM IST
- Genome sequencing of coronavirus in sewage can help detect local variants: StudyAccording to the research, published in the peer-reviewed journal mBio, the ability to track SARS-CoV-2 mutations in wastewater could be pa...20 Jan, 2021, 11.40 AM IST
- Wastewater containing coronavirus may be potential threat, say scientistsAccording to the review research, conventional wastewater treatment provides only partial removal of coronaviruses, with safe disposal or r...25 Aug, 2020, 12.44 PM IST
- The clue to testing 1.3 billion people for Covid could be in the sewageExperts are developing a protocol to test sewage for Covid traces in selected areas of Bengaluru and Kolkata.27 Apr, 2020, 07.28 PM IST
- Coronavirus in sewage portended Covid-19 outbreak in Dutch cityThe so-called SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is often excreted in an infected person’s stool.31 Mar, 2020, 02.27 PM IST
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