Mutant COVID: 6 Labs to Test Over 25 UK Travelers for Genome Sequencing by Hannah Joy on December 24, 2020 at 6:53 PM Nearly two dozen who came to India from the UK in the past few days have tested positive for COVID-19. Union Health Ministry has directed states and Union Territories to send samples of those found coronavirus positive to six laboratories identified for genome sequencing. The laboratories are: the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, the DBT-Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar, DBT-InStem-NCBS in Bengaluru, the DBT-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in West Bengal and the ICMR-National Institute of Virology in Pune.