Page 6 - நுண்ணுயிர் தொழில்நுட்பம் News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Rajasthan announces night curfew in 8 cities, makes negative RT-PCR report mandatory for visiting state
msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
6 cr COVID-19 vaccine doses sent to 76 nations, 4 5 cr doses administered in India: Harsh Vardhan
india.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from india.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UPDATED: January 7, 2021 21:31 IST
A health worker takes a nasal swab of passenger for Covid-19 test at Bandra Terminus railway station, Nov 2020 (Mandar Deodhar) Even as apprehensions grow about new strains of the coronavirus outpacing vaccinations around the world, Indian scientists are putting the mutant strains under watch and bracing to launch a countrywide genome sequencing initiative. They have also highlighted concerns about how the virus lingers in the air and airborne transmission of Covid in a closed environment.
A joint study by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, and the Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Chandigarh, has found the virus in the air samples of Covid wards in three hospitals each in the two cities. On January 5, the CCMB and IMTech released their data on the airborne nature of SARS-CoV-2. Researchers found the virus in infectious aerosols; smaller sized aerosols could be formed due to evaporation of water from large
Airborne transmission of coronavirus: Study reveals surprising details
By News Desk| Edited by Neha | Published: 7th January 2021 11:18 pm IST
By Mohammed Hussain Ahmed
Hyderabad: A new coronavirus research may render people more alert and force them to observe guidelines more strictly. Hyderabad’s research lab, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has conducted a research study in cooperation with Chandigarh’s Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT) in both these cities about the presence of the virus in the air.
The study found that the virus remains in the air and can infect anyone. The research was conducted in three hospitals in these cities to find out the presence of coronavirus in Covid and non-Covid wards. The study found the presence of coronavirus in the air of Covid wards.
»Coronavirus Found in Air Samples of Covid Hospitals Ward, Can Sustain for More than Two Hours: Study
1-MIN READ
Coronavirus Found in Air Samples of Covid Hospitals Ward, Can Sustain for More than Two Hours: Study
Image for representation.
The study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, said that when the Covid-19 patients spend longer in a room, the virus is found in air for more than two hours, even further than two metres from the patient.
Coronavirus was found in air samples in Covid-19 wards of hospitals, which could be transiently air-borne, a study by Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech) suggests.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.