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Special issue of monthly science popularization magazine
‘DREAM 2047’ on COVID-19
In May 2020, Vigyan Prasar brought out an exclusive edition on COVID-19 of its monthly bi-lingual science magazine Dream 2047. The magazine is being published by VP for last twenty-three years. Vigyan Prasar encourages reading the electronic version of this popular science magazine which is posted every month in Vigyan Prasar’s website https://vigyanprasar.gov.in/. All previous issues of the magazine are available online.
In this special issue, every possible aspect that one would be interested to know about the pandemic have been covered including cause and effects, the vaccine development, and eventually update on the road to recovery efforts.
Contact Info: dream@vigyanprasar.gov.in
Website link:
https://vigyanprasar.gov.in/dream-2047/
Training Course on Laboratory Diagnosis of COVID-19
To help build capacity for the national fight against COVID-19, the COVID Diagnostic Training Centre has been established at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous institute of the DST, Government of India (www.jncasr.ac.in). The Centre had offering comprehensive training in molecular clinical diagnostics effective immediately. The six-day residential training course was designed to impart theoretical knowledge and hands- on expertise in required molecular biology techniques and BSL-2 workflow.
Website Link:
http://www.jncasr.ac.in/covid/index.html
SCTIMST published an exclusive edition of its quarterly newsletter – Chitra Dhwani –COVID -19
With the outbreak of COVID-19, the country faced extreme challenging situations, but at the same time, it offered a golden opportunity to display our strength to deal with the extraordinary situation. With this context, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram had released its e-magazine called Chitra Dhwani 2020. This opening volume is a combined special COVID-19 mega issue 1-3, covering events from January to September 2020.
Contact Info: enewsletter@sctimst.ac.in
Website Link:
https://sctimst.ac.in/About%20SCTIMST/Chitra%20Dhwani/resources/Chitra%20Dhwani%202020-Vol%206%20 Issue%201-3.pdf
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