Year: 2020

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain tests positive for COIVD-19

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain tests positive for COIVD-19

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has tested positive for COVID-19. His first COVID-19 test had yielded negative results, but he tested positive in the second one. Jain was rushed to the hospital on June 16 with high fever and breathlessness, both symptoms of the infection. However, he tested negative for the virus later

IIT-Guwahati develops affordable COVID-19 diagnostic kits

IIT-Guwahati develops affordable COVID-19 diagnostic kits

GUWAHATI: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, IIT Guwahati, has developed high quality and affordable Viral Transport Media (VTM), RT-PCR and RNA isolation kits, in collaboration with RR Animal Healthcare Limited and with inputs from Guwahati Medical College Hospital, or GMCH. Prof. Parameswar Krishnan Iyer, Prof. Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh from IIT