{"id":23411,"date":"2020-06-17T06:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23411"},"modified":"2020-06-17T06:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:33:32","slug":"india-set-up-first-mobile-covid-testing-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-set-up-first-mobile-covid-testing-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"India set up first mobile Covid-testing lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India has set up its first mobile testing laboratory in a bid to meet the growing demand to conduct coronavirus disease (Covid-19) tests. The mobile laboratory, with on-site Elisa, RtPCR & Bio-chem analysers, was created within eight days by a team from Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The laboratory can be deployed at remote and inaccessible areas in the country, where there is no such facility even as the overall Covid-19 testing capacity has reached three lakh swab samples per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facility aims to put India on the global map of high-end medical equipment production and make healthcare products affordable and accessible not only in the country, but also the world at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BSLs are ranked from one to four and are categorised on the basis of the organisms that the researchers are dealing with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BSL-I is considered to be the least hazardous, while BSL-IV poses the maximum safety risk. Each level builds on the previous category, adding more layers of constraints and barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisms include viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, belongs to the BSL-II category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India has set up its first mobile testing laboratory in a bid to meet the growing demand to conduct coronavirus disease (Covid-19) tests. The mobile laboratory, with on-site Elisa, RtPCR & Bio-chem analysers, was created within eight days by a team from Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone Limited. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The laboratory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":23412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23413,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions\/23413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23411"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}