The dry swab technique can be used for RT-PCR testing with sensitivity and specificity, similar to the current standard when automated RNA extraction is not available.
The Gujarat city Thursday recorded 246 cases of Covid — highest ever since 22 June. Ahmedabad is now under a weekend-long lockdown till Monday morning and also an indefinite night curfew.
The number of Covid tests in Pune steadily dropped from 41,996 in the 11-17 September week to just 13,536 in the 6-12 November week, just ahead of Diwali.
There are 4,43,794 active Covid-19 cases in the country, comprising 4.92 per cent of the total caseload. The Covid case fatality rate has further declined to 1.46 per cent.
The bench said it has been emphasising that number of asymptomatic persons was huge & govt should have been alive to the fact that testing through RAT was not serving the purpose.
In the past 24 hours, Delhi saw 99 deaths, taking its total Covid fatalities to 7,713. Its CFR stands at 1.58 per cent — higher than the national average of 1.47.
The centre along the national highway, at Chenani, Udhampur, offers free rapid antigen testing, with the union territory administration paying for the tests.
In the battle against Covid, rapid antigen tests are considered a part of ‘Swiss Cheese Model’, a popular term to describe a multipronged strategy to tackle a certain threat.
How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.
Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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