staff reporter dr pragya d yadav, scientist-f at the indian council of medical research-national institute of virology (icmr-niv), pune, has been appointed as the director-in-charge of the national institute of one
Dr Pragya Yadav was among the scientists who detected the first three Covid-19 pandemic cases in the country; she is senior scientist at the ICMR-National Institute of Virology
According to Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, Co-chairman of the National IMA Covid task force, XBB.1.5 is an upgraded version of XBB, a recombinant sub-lineage of Omicron that was found a few months ago in multiple countries like Singapore and later in India.
As per the tentative results of WHO s evaluation, out of the 23 samples of the products under reference were tested, of which four were found to contain Diethylene Glycol or Ethylene glycol.