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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
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22991. 3 desi firms to make Covid-19 protective gear for doctors, health workers
- The government has roped in three local manufacturers who can produce around 20,000 pieces of this personal protective equipment per week expecting a shortage of disposable body coveralls, 3-ply surgical and N-95 masks for doctors and health workers battling the Covid-19 outbreak.
- India, which used to meet its annual demand of around 1 lakh pieces for these medical textiles through imports from China, the US, Germany and Switzerland, now pegs its requirement at around 50-60 lakh pieces in the next two months.
- While the textiles ministry has on-boarded Vadodara-based Sure Safety, Bengaluru’s Amaryllis Healthcare and Gurugram-based Sai Synergy LLP, it has also reached out to other domestic players for these products,
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22992. Defence ministry ropes in DRDO, OFB to manufacture essential medical equipments
- The defence ministry is stepping up efforts to combat the Covid-19 crisis, with its public sector units and the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) being roped in to manufacture essential medical equipment on a war footing.
- (DRDO) has commenced manufacturing of sanitisers at its laboratories throughout the nation, the OFB, which makes guns, ammunition and clothing for the armed forces, has started a pilot project to produce personal protection equipment.
- DRDO is also in touch with private sector manufacturers to scale up production of much needed ventilators on a war footing. “We have supplied almost 15,000 bottles of the sanitiser formulation for distribution to other organisations. Efforts are on to produce it on a large scale,” a DRDO official said
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22993. Health Ministry asks over 10 domestic manufactures to produce PPE
- Over 10 domestic manufacturers in India have been asked to produce Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
- Apart from this, the government has decided to import the Personal Protective Equipment from other countries.
- "WHO guidelines were understood and taking into account details of this virus, the PPE guidelines were suitably amended. Over 10 domestic manufacturers in India were identified for the purpose. They have started production also," he told reporters.
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22994. Railways has made over 2.8 lakh masks, 25000 litres of sanitiser
- Railways has produced more than 2.8 lakh masks and over 25,000 litres of sanitiser in its production units till April 1, as part of its efforts to augment the government's efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
- To ensure safety of the staff and boost their morale "Soap, water and washing facilities are being provided at all workplaces. With local innovations, hands-free washing facilities have been provided," the statement said.
- The railways has also manufactured essential medical equipment and aims to convert around 20,000 coaches into isolation wards for COVID-19 patients.
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22995. Gujarat govt ropes in pvt firms to manufacture PPE, N95 masks
- The Gujarat government has roped in state-based private companies to manufacture personal protective equipment and N95 masks required by health staff.
- Rajkot-based Jyoti CNC has started production of ventilators after getting necessary approvals. Two other companies - Arvind Mills in Ahmedabad and Sure Safety in Vadodara - will soon start production of personal protective equipment (PPE).
- The state government got technology transferred from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur for N95 masks, he said, adding that Ahmedabad-based Cellulose Products will manufacture 25,000 such masks per day.
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22996. Indian scientists, Intel to use AI to fight COVID-19
- The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) along with Intel India and International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad is working together to come up with a faster and less expensive COVID-19 testing and coronavirus genome sequencing to find an effective cure.
- “Intel India is developing an end-to-end system that consists of multiple applications, testing devices, data collection and aggregation gateways, a data exchange SDK and an AI model-hub platform,” as per a statement by the Ministry of Science & Technology.
- Durgapur-based CSIR lab, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute has created a robotic device called HCARD or Hospital Care Assistive Robotic Device to help frontline healthcare workers in maintaining physical distance from those infected by coronavirus.This robot having such features as navigation, drawer activation for providing medicines and food to patients, sample collection and audio-visual communication. The cost of this device is less than Rs 5 lakh and the weight is less than 80 kilograms.
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22997. Guv sore over KSU threat on migrants
- India has started manufacturing indigenous swabs for Covid-19 testing, with two firms —Tulips and a Mumbai-based Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) — getting a green signal from the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institute for Virology in Pune.
- The swabs — used for collection of oral and throat samples from patients — will cost one-tenth of the imported swabs currently in use, bringing down the cost of Covid-19 testing.
- The swabs imported from US and China cost between Rs 20 and Rs 30 apiece. But even their supply started drying up in last week of April. The desi polyester swabs will cost between Rs 1.4 and Rs 3.5 each. Reliance provided the raw material and Johnson & Johnson India provided pro-bono scientific expertise and R&D.
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22998. HRD minister launches ‘world’s most affordable’ Covid-19 test kit developed by IIT Delhi
- (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Minister of State (HRD) Sanjay Dhotre launched a low-cost Covid-19 test developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT) Delhi .
- The test, Corosure, has been billed as the world’s most affordable probe free RT-PCR based Covid-19 diagnostic kit. The total cost of the kit roughly comes to around Rs 650.
- The product is approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI).
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22999. आईआईआईएम जम्मू ने विकसित की कोरोना की सस्ती टेस्टिंग किट, मंजूरी के लिए आईसीएमआर को भेजी
- कोरोना संक्रमण की जांच अब जल्दी, सटीक और पहले से मौजूद तकनीक के मुकाबले ज्यादा सस्ती होगी। इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट आफ इंटिग्रेटिव मेडिसिन (आईआईआईएम) जम्मू ने पीसीआर तकनीक के विकल्प के तौर पर आरटी-लैंप (रिवर्स ट्रांसक्रिप्टेस-लूप मीडिएटेड आइसोथर्मल एंप्लीकेशन) टेस्ट किट विकसित की है।
- मंजूरी के लिए टेस्ट किट इंडियन काउंसिल फार मेडिकल रिसर्च को भेज दी गई है। आईआईआईएम जम्मू के निदेशक डॉ. डी श्रीनिवास ने कहा कि इस तकनीक में आरटी-पीसीआर टेस्टिंग किट की तुलना में संवेदनशील मशीन की जरूरत नहीं है। इसी वजह से टेस्टिंग किट सस्ती होगी। हालांकि अभी तक इसका मूल्य तय नहीं किया गया है।
- आईआईआईएम जम्मू ने रिलायंस इंडस्ट्रीज लिमिटेड के साथ मिलकर किट को विकसित किया है। डॉ. श्रीनिवास ने कहा कि मौजूदा हालात में संक्रमण जांच का दायरा बढ़ाना जरूरी है। ज्यादा जनसंख्या होने की वजह से जांच उपकरणों की उपलब्धता बढ़ानी होगी। ऐसी स्थिति में इस किट को मंजूरी मिलने में कोई दिक्कत नहीं होगी।
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23000. India's new paper Covid-19 test could be a ‘game changer’
- A team of scientists in India has developed an inexpensive paper-based test for coronavirus that could give fast results similar to a pregnancy test. The BBC's Soutik Biswas and Krutika Pathi unpack how it works.
- The test, named after a famous Indian fictional detective, is based on a gene-editing technology called Crispr. Scientists estimate that the kit - called Feluda - would return results in under an hour and cost 500 rupees (about $6.75; £5.25).
- "This is a simple, precise, reliable, scalable and frugal test," Professor K Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific adviser to the Indian government, told the BBC.
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