Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University The COVID-19 pandemic has been around for a year and a half, causing the death of thousands and infecting millions worldwide. Due to its highly contagious nature, the most effective way to keep the spread under control is to keep social distance and contact tracing. Hence, early […]
Akash Singh, Banaras Hindu University COVID-19 vaccines based on messenger RNA (mRNA) were recently approved to be used in an emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) made a statement to increase awareness regarding breastfeeding after getting vaccinated and advised not to cessate breastfeeding following vaccine administration. Still, many mothers have discontinued breastfeeding due to concern […]
Agrima Bhatt, Rajasthan University In the surge of COVID-19 infection, the healthcare system has been put under immense pressure and the response has been nothing short of developing and innovative. While the rate of people diagnosed with infection has decreased exponentially, the testing remains constant. Effective testing at the time of the pandemic has been […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University For the past one and a half years, we have been struggling with COVID19. The deadly pandemic has taken millions of lives all over the world. Meanwhile, the huge demand has deaccelerated the vaccine rollout. The plan to deal with COVID19 includes extensive testing, contact tracing, quarantining, […]
Ananya Dutta, Bose Institute Various national and international health organizations have emphasized the significance of testing each and every individual in a population and ensuing the contact tracing in order to arrest the outspread of the COVID-19 virus. The existing diagnostic approach is a two-step procedure involving a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction followed by real-time […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara A young man flying back to India from London, on 20th December, 2020, tests positive for the new COVID-19 strain. He was among 222 passengers who arrived on the same plane. It had been the last flight from London before the Indian government banned all the flights […]
Souradip Mallick, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Airborne pathogens are infectious diseases highly transmissible between humans. Many pandemic diseases have been associated with airborne pathogen transmission.Severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) in 2003, influenza A(H1N1) virus in 2009, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV) in 2012 are infectious viruses transmitted through aerosol. A disposable kit was developed for […]
RUCHITA KARMAKAR, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) agreed a dry swab-direct RT-PCR testing method for the COVID-19 virus which is presently developed by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB). This new method of dry swab-direct test aimed at ascending the test by atleast two to three folds with no […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata According to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered a deadly virus, named Chapare virus that caused more than five infections near Bolivia’s capital city, La Paz, out of which three are fatal. The researchers attested that the […]
Sagnik Nag, Amity University Kolkata The most recently discovered strain of SARS-CoV-2 was held accountable for corona virus disease (COVID-19) and the pandemic henceforth. Ongoing infection has taken the lives of a huge number of individuals on the planet. As of now there’s so much that we don’t know about this viral infection- it’s the […]
