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HOW LONG DOES THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS SURVIVES ON SURFACES?

Covid-19 normally spreads from a person to person. When an infected person sneezes or coughs, droplets containing the virus spread in the surrounding area. Any healthy person could come in contact with these and get infected. One can get infected even when they get into contact with the things or artifacts contaminated with the virus particles. There were…

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INDIA DEVELOPES A RAPID TEST KIT FOR COVID-19 DETECTION

Scientists at CSIR-IGIB (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research‘s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology), New Delhi have developed a paper-based strip for testing COVID-19 named ‘FELUDA’. It Can test Covid-19 in just a few minutes. It is named after Satyajit Ray’s popular fictional detective character and stands for “FNCAS9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay’’. “It will detect the…