Covid 19 Test

Grammy Awards amid COVID-19: A peek into masks, testing and a subdued celebration of music

Built around performances, full of singing and shouting, and with the biggest crowd of any awards show, the Grammys seem uniquely wrong for a world still in the coronavirus pandemic.

Delhi makes negative COVID-19 report mandatory for travellers arriving from five states

People arriving from Maharashtra Kerala, Chhattisgarh, MP and Punjab will have to show a negative RT-PCR test from 27 February to 15 March

Google Trends 2020: IPL overtakes coronavirus to become most searched topic; everything that trended in India this year

While coronavirus was among the top 10 Google trends globally, Indian Premier League came out on top in India, even beating terms relating to the US Presidential election 2020

Scientists at IISc are developing a Covid-19 test based on Raman spectroscopy, artificial intelligence

Using AI and deep learning, the Covid-19 detection process will be automated, rapid and won't require any extraction procedure.

Smartphone-based Covid-19 test uses CRISPR technology, returns results in under 30 mins

The new diagnostic test can generate a positive or negative result, as well as measure the viral load, or concentration of virus, in the sample.

Moderna files for emergency use authorisation of COVID-19 vaccine; Rajasthan announces lockdown in containment zones

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 94,31,691 with 38,772 new infections on Monday, while the toll climbed to 1,37,139 after 443 more fatalities reported

Feluda paper strip test for COVID-19 to be available in Indian markets by November-end

The CRISPR Feluda COVID-19 test was given approved for use by the Indian Council of Medical Research in September.

Hong Kong bars Air India flights for fourth time as passengers test positive for COVID-19

According to govt officials, the Hong Kong government has barred Mumbai-Hong Kong flights from 28 October to 10 November

WHO plans to distribute 120 mn rapid COVID-19 test kits to poorer nations at $5 each

The quick tests, to be distributed in 133 countries over the next six months, are not the most reliable but are fast, cheap and easy to carry out.

Babulal Marandi tests positive for COVID-19; ex-Jharkhand CM to remain in home quarantine in Ranchi

Marandi recently returned from Delhi and was supposed to go on a four-day tour of Dumka on Saturday, state BJP spokesperson Saroj Singh said