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India’s largest integrated energy player is running 24X7 Control Rooms across plants for better coordination for patients across sites which are coordinated by a special task force. The task force also helps in coordination for hospital beds and other treatment facilities across various empanelled and non-empaneled hospitals. The 24X7 control rooms also coordinated for procurement of medicines, hospital equipment, services along with daily reporting and MIS.
Further, NTPC is in coordination with hospitals and its medical team to ensure that all COVID-19 patients are rendered the best healthcare support. NTPC has also collaborated with the Ministry of Power and Ministry of Health to facilitate the availability of necessary but scarce medicines and other essentials like oxygen.
Website link:
https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1718789
CCMB initiates training on faster, low-cost COVID-19 testing
CSIR-CCMB has shown that biological samples from dry swabs can be directly used for COVID-19 testing without RNA isolation. This will bring down the costs of COVID-19 tests. No Viral Transport Medium is needed and sample handling is easier. CSIR-CCMB are training ICMR-testing centres to adopt the protocol.
Website link:
https://www.ccmb.res.in/
CDRI offers screening of compounds against selected SARS-CoV-2
targets
CSIR-CDRI offers screening of compounds and selected extracts for companies, start-ups and other institutes against selected SARS-CoV-2 targets on payment or collaborative basis as per the needs of the particular entity.
a) An attractive drug target among coronaviruses is the main protease (Mpro, also called 3CLpro) because of its essential role in processing the polyproteins that are translated from the viral RNA. CSIR-CDRI can screen compounds against the target and also will carry out co- crystallization studies based on the particular requirements.
b) The papain-like protease (PLpro) of SARS-CoV-2 plays essential roles in virus replication and immune evasion and represents an attractive drug target. CSIR-CDRI can screen compounds and carry out co-crystallisation studies against this target based on the particular project needs.
Website link:
https://cdri.res.in/covid19Screening.aspx
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