{"id":29647,"date":"2020-04-23T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=29647"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:31:17","slug":"defence-minister-inaugurated-drdo-mobile-testing-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/defence-minister-inaugurated-drdo-mobile-testing-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister inaugurated DRDO mobile testing lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defence Minister inaugurated a mobile virology research and diagnostics laboratory, a testing facility developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation that can process over 1,000 samples in a day, speed up COVID-19 screening and carry out immune profiling of patients of the virus for vaccine development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Biosafety Level 2 and Level 3 lab will help to process more than 1,000 samples in a day. It will enhance the country&#8217;s capabilities in fighting COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MVRL related R&amp;D activities was developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), the Hyderabad based laboratory of DRDO in consultation with ESIC Hospital, Hyderabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The labs are built as per the World Health Organization (WHO) and ICMR Bio-safety standards to meet international guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The labs have built-in electrical controls, LAN, Telephone cabling, and CCTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mobile Lab will carry out the diagnosis of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also help in virus culturing for drug screening, Convalescent plasma-derived therapy, comprehensive immune profiling of COVID-19 patients towards vaccine development early clinical trials specific to the Indian population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister inaugurated a mobile virology research and diagnostics laboratory, a testing facility developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation that can process over 1,000 samples in a day, speed up COVID-19 screening and carry out immune profiling of patients of the virus for vaccine development. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Biosafety Level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":29648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[1186],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-29647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020","tag-ministry-of-defence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647","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=29647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29649,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions\/29649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29647"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=29647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}