India has to scale up its daily COVID testing by 10 times to control the current speed of spreading of Coronavirus in the country.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Though the mortality rate is very low compared to other countries, there is an urgent need for controlling the speed in its spreading.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Hyderabad based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Director Dr Rakesh K Mishra says that the current level of daily COVID testing should be increased besides the Social Vaccine.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Otherwise, he says the present medical facilities will be short of tackling the situation.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''CCMB Director Dr Rakesh K Mishra informed AIR correspondent that the Virus is spreading at a very high speed and decreasing its speed and immediate detection of infections are the solutions available currently.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''Dr Rakesh Mishra further informed that the CCMB Scientists have analysed more than two thousand SARS-Corona Virus genomes from the country to understand the various strains in circulation.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''He further says the distinct Virus population, called A3i, found earlier in the month of June is disappearing slowly and the A2a has become dominant clade everywhere.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''At present 70% of all Indian as well as global SARS-CoV-2 genomes fall into this clade.<br />''<b><i>&nbsp;</i></b><br />''<span style="color: #222222;">He felt social vaccine which include wearing mask, sanitising hands and maintaining physical distancing will hold good.</span><br />
News On AIR | September 28, 2020 8:55 AM
India needs to scale up its daily COVID testing by 10 times: CCMB Director