In the early days of COVID-19 outbreak last year, India relied on imports from leading medical companies like Roche Diagnostic, Korea's S.D Biosensor, Siemens Healthcare, Thermofisher, Abbott Healthcare, apart from Chinese and South Korean manufacturers

The review, of more than 40 publicly available documents and research papers in Chinese and English, shows BGI's links to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) include research with China's top military supercomputing experts

Nadda said the Congress made a \"nirbhar Bharat\" (dependent India), while Modi made an \"Atmanirbhar Bharat\" (self-reliant India)

Need to build on 'flexibility' and 'agility' as strategic advantages, while being bolder and less risk-averse

The state government issued the order slashing the Covid-19 test rate by private labs soon after the chief minister digitally inaugurated a 70-bed Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit in RUHS Hospital hee and disease testing labs in six towns

Coronavirus update: The new rapid COVID-19 testing kit will give test results in less than a minute by simply requiring an individual to blow into a tube, the Israeli envoy to India said

The government had in March banned the export of all kinds of masks to avoid any shortage in the country at a time when the COVID-19 outbreak had started gaining momentum

Within 24 hours to 8 AM on Thursday, India saw the highest single-day spike of 56,282 new COVID-19 cases and 904 deaths, according to Health Ministry data

Researchers are looking at options beyond swab tests to diagnose COVID-19; multiple experiments are taking place across the world

North Korea had reported testing 1,211 people for the virus as of July 16 with all returning negative results, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement sent to Reuters on Monday

IIT-Kharagpur claimed the results of the new COVID-19 test are exactly identical to that of an RT-PCR test; process underway to secure ICMR validation and marketing approval from DCGI

The three firms are Cadila Healthcare, MDAAC International and N W Overseas while the 16 companies include Transasia Bio-Medicals, Cosmic Scientific, Inbios India, S D Biosensor, Accurex Biomedicals, Biohouse Solutions and Trivitron Healthcare among others

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Way back in early March, Thermo Fisher was among the first two companies to receive emergency use authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to start making RT-PCR kits for COVID-19 testing

IIT Delhi launches coronavirus testing kit: The kit has been launched by Newtech Medical under the name 'Corosure'. Newtech will produce the affordable coronavirus testing kit

Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Minister of State for HRD Sanjay Dhotre are expected to launch the kit tomorrow

In the last 24 hours, a total of 19,235 people were cured of the coronavirus infection. This has resulted in the cumulative total number of recovered cases among COVID-19 patients rising to 5,34,620 on Sunday

Earlier, the central government had also lauded the efforts of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in \"actively\" controlling coronavirus in Dharavi

Within the country, eight states -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat -- account for around 90 per cent of the active coronavirus cases

Coronavirus pandemic: The World Health Organisation (WHO) appreciated India's efforts in tackling the coronavirus pandemic and said that the government took extremely serious steps from the beginning