coronavirus testing
Lockdown is just a pause button, aggressive testing needed: Rahul Gandhi
Ongoing nationwide lockdown is like a pause button and not a solution to defeat the virus, says Congress leader
India's covid figures modest for the size of population: Experts
India is going in the right direction but it is not enough
DRDO develops COVID sample collection kiosk which protects health and sanitation workers from possible infection
Healthcare workers can collect samples from outside a booth, protected by a screen from the potential carrier of the contagion inside
IISc developing tool to detect COVID-19 based sound of an infected person's cough, speech
Named Coswara, the project uses the same concept being worked upon by an Israeli startup called Vocalis Health
Ramp up testing in Uttar Pradesh to save lives: Priyanka to Yogi
The Congress leader also called up creation of more isolation wards and quarantine centres
UK mulls massive testing for coronavirus amid wave of criticism
There have also been reports of staff being turned away from drive-in test centres because they did not have the correct paperwork
UK relied too much on 'herd immunity' model, did not test enough, says Indian-origin scientist
Devi Sridhar warned that the UK could be in for an endless cycle of lockdown and release, even as the virus has claimed 1,789 lives
Israel working on app that can tell from your voice if you're infected by coronavirus
Voice samples from virus carriers in various stages of illness and non-infected people are being collected to detect a vocal 'fingerprint'
UK university develops paper-based test kit to detect coronavirus in wastewater: Study
It may predict the potential spread of the virus by picking up signatures of it in faeces from disease carriers that enter water systems
COVID-19 home test kits developed by UK scientists give you results in 30 minutes
Each test costs as little as £4 or around Rs 350, while the testing devices themselves cost £100 or less than Rs 9,000.