Swab collecting booth at Bengaluru's Victoria Hospital inaugurated

May 28, 2020

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 28 : A cost-effective state of the art glove box testing booth for swab collection was inaugurated by Karnataka Medical...

Coimbatore-based robotics engineer develops 'COVID-19 Smart Swab Robot'

Jun 29, 2020

Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 29 : A Coimbatore-based robotics engineer has claimed to develop a 'COVID-19 Smart Swab Robot' that can collect samples...

US State Department sued for concealing American diplomats' anal-swab testing in China

Aug 08, 2021

Washington, [US] August 8 : The US State Department has been sued by a country-based activist group over concealing the American diplomats' anal swab...

22 samples tested COVID-negative in Mizoram

Jul 01, 2020

Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], July 1 : All the swab tests conducted for COVID-19 on Tuesday resulted negative, informed the Department of Information and Public...

Nepal to allow private labs to test COVID-19 samples

Jun 14, 2020

Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 : As throat swab samples started piling up in government-operated labs around the nation, the government of Nepal has decided...

Meril manufactures commercial kits for CCMB's dry swab direct RT-PCR tests

Jun 02, 2021

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 2 : A simple and fast method of dry swab-based direct RT-PCR has been developed by CSIR's constituent lab Centre...