INSACOG starts sewage water surveillance across 19 sites in 15 states to detect Sars-CoV-2

Apr 08, 2022

New Delhi [India], April 8 : With a continuous decline in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG) has started...

INSACOG plans to increase sites for sewage sample collection for COVID-19, say top health experts

Apr 11, 2022

New Delhi [India], April 11 : The Indian SARS Cov2 genomic consortium (INSACOG) is looking into the results of samples collected from 15 states...

Centre directs States to conduct genome sequencing of COVID positive samples to track variants

Dec 21, 2022

The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday requested States and Union Territories to send samples of all COVID-19 positive cases to INSACOG labs to track...

Pakistan: 28 sewage samples test positive for wild poliovirus

Feb 04, 2024

As many as 28 environmental samples collected from Pakistan's 19 districts in January and two collected from Quetta and Khuzdar in December have tested...

Union Health Min asks States to submit samples of COVID cases of foreign returnees, contacts to INSACOG

Dec 08, 2021

New Delhi [India], December 8 : As India reported nearly two dozen Omicron cases, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Wednesday asked all the...

No mass Covid testing in state now, will wait for results of genome sequencing: Maharasthra Health Secy

Dec 21, 2022

Maharashtra Health Secretary Sanjay Khandare on Wednesday divulged the action plans to be followed by the state to curb covid cases following the covid...