The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Institute of Genetics and Integrated Biology (IGIB), along with a few other institutions is currently developing digital and molecular surveillance of the spread of novel coronavirus to understand the biology, epidemiology and disease impact.
Highlights:
♦ The surveillance centre would be established at IGIB where all the labs, research centres, and hospitals will share their data through cloud sharing.
♦ The surveillance will be done at three levels namely the virus, the patient, and the clinical course of the patient.
♦ Surveillance at the virus level refers to the genome of the virus. For this, CCMB plays a major role, as it would provide the genome sequences.
♦ The second part deals with the patient data, which is details of the patients looking at the clinical samples.
♦ Thirdly, the clinical course details would be clinical care data or hospital data that leads to outcomes. Some patients require ventilators, while others are able to recover on their own.
♦ The data will be used by the GoI to be linked to the Aarogya Setu app. The idea is to provide benefits to the maximum number of people.
