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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EFFORTS ON COVID-19 BY
COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (CSIR)
Digital surveillance to monitor and control COVID-19 spread
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Institute of Genetics and Integrated Biology (IGIB), along with a few other institutions, are working for the digital and molecular surveillance of the spread of novel coronavirus to understand the biology, epidemiology and disease impact.
Why some people who are infected by the dreaded novel coronavirus do not even show symptoms, leave alone illness? Why some suffer and go to the brink of death while some others come out of the clutches of the virus unscathed? Is the virus mutating so fast that our efforts towards the development of vaccine and drugs will go down the drain or is the change insignificant? A number of such questions abound, for which scientists all over the world are seeking answers.
With digital and molecular surveillance of novel coronavirus, scientists are hoping to get some clue for many of the unknowns today.The centre would be established at IGIB where all the labs, research centres and hospitals will share their data through cloud sharing.
Website link:
https://vigyanprasar.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/Vigyan-Samachar-CSIR-News-1-23-Apr-20.pdf https://www.csir.res.in/
HCARD, a robot, to assist frontline COVID-19 healthcare
warriors
Healthcare workers at hospitals are risking COVID-19 infection 24/7 by taking care of those infected by it. Perhaps the level of risk may get reduced hereafter with the help of a new friend, HCARD. The robotic device HCARD, in short for Hospital Care Assistive Robotic Device, can help frontline healthcare workers in maintaining physical distance from those infected by coronavirus.
HCARD is developed by Durgapur-based CSIR lab, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute.The device is equipped with various state-of-the-art technologies and works both in automatic as well as manual modes of navigation.
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