Tag: NICD

City patients laid low with adenoviruses infections

Adenoviruses are very contagious and can spread when someone who has infected coughs with sneezing. Droplets of an adenovirus-affected patient fly into air and land on surfaces.

February 19, 2023

Under-utilised: NICD lab sending large quantities of Covid test kits to laboratories in Odisha, Jharkhand

“Recently, on the instructions from the ICMR we have distributed huge quantities of test kits that were lying unutilized here and scheduled for expiry by 31 December to central government-run labs in Odisha and Jharkhand for their use. I don’t know why our state government is not sending adequate number of swab samples as much as possible to us despite repeated requests made to Swasthya Bhaban,”

January 14, 2022