INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New Delhi: Center on Monday began a dry run in four states -- Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat and Punjab -- for COVID-19 immunisation
The effort is to check roll-out procedures, preparedness, cold storage, transportation arrangement and management of possible adverse events
after vaccination etc as the government gets set to give license to vaccine companies for launching their products in India.India on Monday
recorded a 7 per cent jump in daily fresh cases with 20, 021 new detections as overall cases of COVID-19 crossed 1.02 crore
The deaths so far has been about 1.48 lakh out of which 279 fatalities were in the last 24 hours
Genome Sequencing has suggested Epidemiological Surveillance of all passengers who have arrived in India since November 23
In addition, 5 per cent samples of all daily detected COVID-19 positive cases in the states and UTs will be sent for genome sequencing
In case the UK variant or any other variant mutation is detected in any sample, the virus will be sent to notified COVID Virus Repositories
Genomic surveillance in order to understand the spread of the virus in a rapid and robust manner
The proposed Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium will help to expand whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 virus across the nation, aiding
our understanding of how the virus spreads and evolves
sequencing laboratories will be analyzed as per the field data trends to study the linkages (if any) between the genomic variants and
This will help to understand super spreader events, outbreaks and strengthen public health interventions across the country to help in
breaking the chains of transmission
In the present scenario, it will try to ascertain the current status of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01) in the country,
establish a sentinel surveillance for early detection of genomic variants with public health implication and determine the genomic variants
in the unusual events/trends (super-spreader events, high mortality/morbidity trend areas etc.)The Union Home Ministry said the COVID-19
COVID-19 cases, there is need to maintain surveillance, containment and caution, keeping in view the surge in cases globally, and emergence
of a new variant of the virus in the United Kingdom (UK).Accordingly, Containment Zones continue to be demarcated carefully; prescribed
containment measures strictly followed within these zones; COVID-appropriate behaviour promoted and strictly enforced, and the Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs) prescribed in respect of various permitted activities followed scrupulously," MHA said in a statement
The ministry added that the focused approach on surveillance, containment and strict observance of the guidelines/ SOPs issued by MHA and
