Coronavirus in India: IISc researchers working on tool for Covid-19 diagnosis based on cough, speech sounds
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus in India: IISc researchers working on tool for Covid-19 diagnosis based on cough, speech sounds

India Today  

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is working on a tool for diagnosis of COVID-19 based on respiratory, cough and speech sounds. The audio dataset collected will be released for researchers across the world to develop a potential diagnostic tool using signal processing and machine learning methods," he added. "The major limitations of the testing which hinder the widespread deployment of this procedure include violation of social distancing which increases the chance of infection to the subject, exposure of the viral infection to healthcare workers, expenses involved in chemical testing and the time required for results with an increasing population requiring the test," he said. Read: Unicef joins hands with India's Panchayati Raj and Rural Dev institute to create awareness about coronavirus Read: IIT Delhi now among world’s top 50 engineering institutes: QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 Read: AICTE warns engineering colleges against forcing students to pay fees Read: NCERT releases alternative academic calendar for classes 1 to 5

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Scientists reveal new Covid testing software that detects virus through a person's voice
2 years, 4 months ago

Scientists reveal new Covid testing software that detects virus through a person's voice

Daily Mail  

A ground-breaking app which can detect coronavirus in your voice has been developed in a major scientific breakthrough. The accuracy of lateral flow tests varies widely and could miss between 20 per cent and 81 per cent of positive cases in different settings, according to Imperial College London. 'These results show a significant improvement in the accuracy of diagnosing COVID-19 …

App claims to detect COVID with 92% accuracy by hearing sound of cough
2 years, 8 months ago

App claims to detect COVID with 92% accuracy by hearing sound of cough

India TV News  

Australian scientists have developed a novel app that can detect Covid-19 infection by just the sound of a cough. The app, called ResApp, which uses machine learning to analyse the sounds of cough, could detect Covid with 92 per cent accuracy, Daily Mail reported. Beware, these 6 harmful health problems can trouble you "The sheer scale of this global pandemic …

ICMR Issues New Guidelines For RT-PCR Testing Amid Second Coronavirus Wave
3 years, 8 months ago

ICMR Issues New Guidelines For RT-PCR Testing Amid Second Coronavirus Wave

ABP News  

The second wave of Coronavirus is turning out to be deadly with India witnessing an unprecedented upsurge of COVID-19 cases and deaths every day. As per the ICMR Advisory, if a person has once tested Coronavirus positive during the Rapid Antigen Test or RT-PCR test, then there is no need for that individual to undergo RT-PCR test again. READ | …

ICMR approves CCMB Hyderabad's new Covid-19 testing method
4 years, 1 month ago

ICMR approves CCMB Hyderabad's new Covid-19 testing method

India Today  

The Indian Council of Medical Research has approved a dry swab, RNA extraction-free testing method for Covid-19 that has been developed by the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. In the conventional testing method, nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab samples are transported to testing centres, sometimes even hundreds of km away. CCMB researchers found that VTM can be totally …

Reliance develops RT-PCR kit that can give coronavirus results in 2 hrs
4 years, 3 months ago

Reliance develops RT-PCR kit that can give coronavirus results in 2 hrs

India TV News  

The Reliance Life Sciences has developed an RT-PCR kit that promises diagnosis of the deadly coronavirus infection in about 2 hours, company sources said on Friday. The sources said computational biologists at Reliance Life Sciences, a subsidiary of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries Ltd, analysed more than 100 genomes of SARS-CoV-2 sequenced in India and designed unique RT-PCR primers for …

Fear of second Covid-19 wave as people moving out: Uddhav Thackeray
4 years, 3 months ago

Fear of second Covid-19 wave as people moving out: Uddhav Thackeray

Live Mint  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday expressed apprehensions of a "second wave" of coronavirus transmission as more people are moving out for work, and called for stricter compliance with norms. We are allowing asymptomatic patients to remain under home quarantine, but they are moving out and infecting others," the chief minister said. "If results of antigen tests return negative …

If we must learn to live with the virus as Lav Agarwal says, this device could help
4 years, 7 months ago

If we must learn to live with the virus as Lav Agarwal says, this device could help

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Just yesterday, a report quoting University of Minnesota scientists said the coronavirus is likely to remain a menace for another two years! Researchers at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, United States, have developed a wearable wireless sensor that monitors cough, fever and respiratory activity to produce insights, using machine learning, that can help manage the COVID-19 …

Affordable test methods to drones: Institutions take the innovation route to aid Covid-19 fight
4 years, 8 months ago

Affordable test methods to drones: Institutions take the innovation route to aid Covid-19 fight

India Today  

From affordable Covid-19 testing methods to robots delivering food and medicines in isolation wards, drones for sanitising large areas to UV-fitted containers for sanitising grocery items, various institutions in the country are following the innovation mantra to aid the fight against coronavirus. The current testing methods available are “probe-based”, while the one developed by the IIT team is a “probe-free” …

Coronavirus Outbreak: What are the challenges and limitations of RT-PCR testing?
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: What are the challenges and limitations of RT-PCR testing?

Firstpost  

The efficiency of this test depends on the adequate collection of the viral RNA which is extracted from the throat of patients. Testing for a virus Molecular techniques to test for viral pathogens are established based on the structure of the virus. Exactly like each new member of the family tree gets a unique name and an Aadhar card, in …

Researchers create an app that detects COVID-19 by listening to your voice
4 years, 9 months ago

Researchers create an app that detects COVID-19 by listening to your voice

India Today  

A lot of tech companies have designed many COVID-19 symptom checkers but a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has made an app that detects signs of coronavirus just by analyzing your voice. The app called COVID Voice Detector can detect whether a person has symptoms of COVID-19 or not just by analyzing his voice. And there are some …

Testing for COVID-19 in India
4 years, 9 months ago

Testing for COVID-19 in India

The Hindu  

Real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction -based tests are recommended as diagnostic tests for COVID-19. Primers and probes are short stretches of DNA, specific and complementary to regions of the viral genome or target region. The test uses two primers and one probe against each target region of the viral genome. Therefore, the diagnostic labs need to be certified and follow …

Coronavirus | Two indigenous tests for detection being tested
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus | Two indigenous tests for detection being tested

The Hindu  

Two diagnostic tests for coronavirus — the first to be developed entirely in India — are currently being evaluated by the National Institute of Virology in Pune, a senior official in the Department of Biotechnology told The Hindu. On Tuesday, the government said it was readying guidelines for private diagnostic companies to develop tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which …

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