Inauguration of Covid Testing Laboratory in CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat by Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Hon'ble Minister of Finance, Transformation & Development, Health & Family Welfare, PWD, Education (Higher, Secondary & Elementary).
Distribution of hand sanitizer in Jorhat Airport for the use of Officials, Security Personnel and passengers by CSIR-NEIST on 20 March 2020.
Dr G. Narahari Sastry, Director, CSIR-NEIST along with a team of Scientists visited Air Force Hospital to discuss about the setting up of a Collaborative COVID-19 Testing Laboratory in AFH, Jorhat.
Distribution of Hand sanitizer to 5 Air Force Hospital, Jorhat.
Distribution of Hand sanitizer to Office of the Superintendent of Police, Jorhat.
Distribution of Hand sanitizer to the Medical Staff halt at Jorhat Airport.
Distribution of Hand sanitizer to Office of the Additional Superintendent of Police, Jorhat.
Distribution of Hand sanitizer to Session judge and district court, Jorhat.
Preparation of Hand sanitizer at CSIR-NEIST Branch laboratory, Imphal for distribution.
On December 31, 2019 China has alerted World Health Organization (WHO) to several cases of pneumonia of unknown aetiology in Wuhan city in central China. On January 7, a novel coronavirus was identified from the throat swab sample from a patient and its originally abbreviated as 2019-nCoV by WHO. Coronavirus study group later renamed this pathogen as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and WHO named this disease as coronavirus disease – 2019 (COVID-19).
SARS-CoV-2 is a member of family Coronaviridae and order of Nidovirales. The Coronaviridae family viruses are sub divided into four groups namely (a) Alphacoronavirus, (b) Betacoronavirus, (c) Gammacoronavirus and (d) Deltacoronavirus. More
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