Tag: COVID-19 testing
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Is India well prepared or failing to handle the surge in covid cases?
India reported 95,735 new coronavirus cases, verging close to crossing the one lakh-mark in the number of daily cases. Up until now, no nation has crossed or even reached this mark. India has seen in the course of recent weeks, a consistent spike in the number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day. Meanwhile, ... -
ICMR increases no. of private lab testing from 8 to 13 for coronavirus pandemic in Delhi
The count of COVID-19 cases crossed 56,000 across the nation and death reached to 1,886. The number of testing facilities for coronavirus at private labs in Delhi has been extended from 8 to 13 now. The coronavirus response advisory group stated that the Delhi state is presumably going to see its peak in Covid-19 cases ... -
IIT Delhi develops low-cost COVID-19 testing kit, gets ICMR approval
As the Coronavirus cases continue to surge in India, it is crucial for the administration to carry out more tests every day. In a bid to help the government execute this mammoth task, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has developed a method to detect COVID-19. According to the ... -
Why India needs COVID-19 lockdown extension?
India’s 1.3 billion population is under 21-day national lockdown since March 24 imposed by the government to contain the novel COVID-19 virus. With state government and experts have been urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi on extending the curfew which ends on April 14, India certainly cannot afford to lift its lockdown at present. Even after ...