{"id":100695,"date":"2020-04-24T00:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=100695"},"modified":"2020-04-24T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T19:20:50","slug":"def-min-unveils-mobile-lab-for-covid-19-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/def-min-unveils-mobile-lab-for-covid-19-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Def min unveils mobile lab for Covid-19 screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Apr 23:<\/strong> Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday unveiled via video link a &#8216;mobile virology research and diagnostics laboratory (MVRDL)&#8217; developed by the Defence Research &amp; Development Organization (DRDO), which will help in speeding up Covid-19 screening, a statement said.<br \/>\nThe first such mobile viral research lab (MVRL) to speed up coronavirus screening and related research and development activities was developed by the Research Centre Imarat, the Hyderabad-based laboratory of the DRDO, in consultation with ESIC Hospital, Hyderabad, the statement said.<br \/>\nThe MVRL is the combination of a Bio-safety Level (BSL) 3 lab and a BSL 2 lab essential to carry out its activities. The lab is built as per the World Health Organization and the Indian Council of Medical Research bio-safety standards to meet international guidelines. The system has built-in electrical controls, LAN, telephone cabling, and CCTVs, the statement added.<br \/>\nThe mobile lab will be helpful in carrying out diagnosis of Covid-19 and also virus culturing for drug screening, convalescent plasma derived therapy, comprehensive immune profiling of Covid-19 patients towards vaccine development and early clinical trials specific to the Indian population.<br \/>\nThe lab can screen 1,000-2,000 samples per day and can be positioned anywhere in the country as per requirement, the statement added.<br \/>\nThe defence minister said the government has taken several timely decisions because of which the spread of Covid-19 in the country is far less in comparison to many other countries.<br \/>\nSingh expressed appreciation for the setting up of this BSL 2 and 3 labs in a record time of 15 days, though it usually takes about six months to set up such a lab. He said the testing facility can process more than 1,000 samples in a day and will enhance the country&#8217;s capabilities in fighting Covid-19.<br \/>\nHe said the armed forces are contributing in the fight against Covid-19 in many ways, such as setting up of quarantine centres, providing healthcare facilities, and evacuating Indian nationals from other countries. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Apr 23: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday unveiled via video link a &#8216;mobile virology research and diagnostics laboratory (MVRDL)&#8217; developed by the Defence Research &amp; Development Organization (DRDO), which will help in speeding up Covid-19 screening, a statement said. The first such mobile viral research lab (MVRL) to speed up coronavirus screening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}