India logged a single-day rise of 13,216 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,32,83,793, while the active cases have increased to 68,108, according to health ministry data updated on Saturday morning.
here on an industrial scale. it s small and relatively inexpensive. the challenge has been getting governments to actually use it. these systems are all plug and play. if you re a 16-year-old high school student, you can run this platform. it s that easy to use. i just wonder, why are more countries not using it? it s a con pfluence of regulations, governments, lack of awareness. we ve been slow to fully understand that we immediate to look at the variants. but if we got a vaccine escape variant, things would change dramatically overnight. reporter: back in the philippines, this lab won t be doing large-scale surveillance anytime soon, without a massive influx of cash. but they have proven with a tiny piece of technology, that even small-scale operations can contribute to covid sequencing, helping us all stay one step ahead of the virus. scott mclean, cnn, oxford, england. we re seeing covid-related protests all over the world this
the world is being manufactured here on an industrial scale. it s small and relatively inexpensive. the challenge has been getting governments to actually use it. these systems all plug and play. if you re a 16-year-old high school student, you can run this platform. it s that easy to use. i wonder, why aren t more countries using it? it s a confluence of regulations, governments, lack of awareness. we ve been slow to fully understand that we need to look at the variants. but if we got a vaccine escape variant, things would change dramatically overnight. reporter: in the philippines this lab won t be doing large scale surveillance any time soon without a massive influx of cash. but they have proven with a tiny piece of technology that even small-scale operations can contribute to covid sequencing, helping us all stay one step ahead of the virus. coming up, a volcano erupts