|

India sets record for 10 Lakhs tests per day of Covid-19

ByRahul Jha

Covid-19 has been infecting people across the globe. However, its spread has slowed down in most of the countries. Globally, as of 12:48 pm CEST on 23rd August 2020, 23,057,288 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 800,906 deaths has been reported to WHO. According to press release on 22nd August by ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), India crosses 10+ Lakhs mark for testing of Covid-19 in 24 hours. India has conducted 10, 23, 836 sample…

Zydus’s Vaccine for Covid-19 enters Phase II
| |

Zydus’s Vaccine for Covid-19 enters Phase II

ByRahul Jha

India’s pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila’s Vaccine candidate for Covid-19 named ‘ZyCoV-D’ claimed to have completed Phase I of clinical trials. According to a press release on its website dated on 5th August 2020, the company said to enter Phase II clinical trials from 6th August 2020.  The Phase I of this vaccine candidate began on 15th July 2020 and was administered to healthy…

Zydus’s ZyCov-D | Covid-19 Vaccine candidate Explained
| |

Zydus’s ZyCov-D | Covid-19 Vaccine candidate Explained

ByRahul Jha

Covid-19 is still spreading at an unprecedented rate. Scientists all around the world are working day and night to develop a vaccine for it. The vaccine candidate was found to be safe and immunogenic in clinical trials.  Antibodies produced after injection was able to completely neutralize the virus. ZyCoV-D uses a non-replicative and non-integrative plasmid….

India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate, COVAXIN Explained
| |

India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate, COVAXIN Explained

ByRahul Jha

The covid-19 crisis is still going on throughout the world. It has affected over 11 Million people and leaving 527,835 people globally dead as per WHO reports on 5th July 2020. Amid Covid-19 crisis researchers have been working tirelessly for Covid-19 vaccine production. There are more than 200 candidates and only 15 have entered clinical trials globally. In India, there are two…

First Indian antibody detection kit for Coronavirus
|

First Indian antibody detection kit for Coronavirus

ByRahul Jha

COVID KAVACH ELISA Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Pune developed the indigenous IgG ELISA test named “COVID KAVACH ELISA” for antibody detection for COVID-19 which is the first Indian antibody detection kit for Coronavirus. Covid-19 continues to spread across the globe, thus, the demand for testing kits is also increasing. India imports most of these diagnostic kits from other countries….

|

INDIA DEVELOPES A RAPID TEST KIT FOR COVID-19 DETECTION

ByRahul Jha

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…