NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Sunday that the government has yet to comment on granting an emergency authorization to Covid-19 vaccines in India, as they become available. The minister also said that the Feluda paper strip test for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 could be implemented in the …
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Sunday the government is reflecting on plans to roll out the country’s first Covid-19 vaccine by prioritizing target groups across the population. He clarified that covid vaccine supplies are anticipated to be available in limited quantities at first. “In a huge country like India, …
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NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: An indigenously developed test using state-of-the-art CRISPR gene editing technology to accurately, inexpensively and rapidly detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 infection has been approved for its commercial launch by Drugs Comptroller General of India. Developed by scientists from IGIB (Institute for Genomics and Integrative …
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Image for representation. On Saturday, India’s Comptroller General of Drugs approved the commercial launch of ‘Feluda’. News18.com Last update: September 20, 2020 12:05 PM IST FOLLOW US: In April 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was still in its early stages, a team led by two Bengali-origin scientists, Dr. Souvik Maiti …
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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A laboratory of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR) that developed ‘Feluda’, a paper-based test strip for Covid-19 named after the fictional detective created by Satyajit Ray, teamed up with Tata on Tuesday. Hijos for its deployment and widespread use for rapid mass ground tests later …
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