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Shekhar C Mande, Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, spoke to Bappa Majumdar about the second coronavirus wave sweeping the country: With India in the middle of a second wave of Covid-19 infections,...
UPDATED: January 7, 2021 21:31 IST A health worker takes a nasal swab of passenger for Covid-19 test at Bandra Terminus railway station, Nov 2020 (Mandar Deodhar) Even as apprehensions grow about new strains of the coronavirus outpacing vaccinations around the world, Indian scientists are putting the mutant strains under watch and bracing to launch a countrywide genome sequencing initiative. They have also highlighted concerns about how the virus lingers in the air and airborne transmission of Covid in a closed environment. A joint study by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB...
Airborne transmission of coronavirus: Study reveals surprising details By News Desk| Edited by Neha | Published: 7th January 2021 11:18 pm IST By Mohammed Hussain Ahmed Hyderabad: A new coronavirus research may render people more alert and force them to observe guidelines more strictly. Hyderabad’s research lab, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has conducted a research study in cooperation with Chandigarh’s Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT) in both these cities about the presence of the virus in the air. The study found that the virus remains in the air and...
»Coronavirus Found in Air Samples of Covid Hospitals Ward, Can Sustain for More than Two Hours: Study 1-MIN READ Coronavirus Found in Air Samples of Covid Hospitals Ward, Can Sustain for More than Two Hours: Study Image for representation. The study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, said that when the Covid-19 patients spend longer in a room, the virus is found in air for more than two hours, even further than two metres from the patient. Coronavirus was found in air samples in Covid-19 wards of hospitals, which could be transiently air-borne, a study by Centre for Cellular and Molecular B...
Image used for representational purpose only HYDERABAD: After finding the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in drinking water, sewage and hospital walls, scientists have now isolated the virus from air samples collected from designated Covid-19 wards. Researchers at city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Chandigarh-based Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT) have studied three hospitals each in Hyderabad and Chandigarh to find if the novel coronavirus was present in the atmosphere. They found the virus was circulating in the special Covid-19 wards or hospitals, while ...