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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Covid: Worrying shortfall, lag in genome sequencing -GS Mudur

Covid: Worrying shortfall, lag in genome sequencing -GS Mudur

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published Published on Jun 14, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 14, 2021

-The Telegraph

A delay of 57 days would mean variants get eight weeks to circulate unnoticed, says IBAB scientist

India has furnished coronavirus genomes from 0.05 per cent of its Covid-19 patients, a tiny fraction of its own target, scientists have said amid concerns that the signals from even the limited sequencing efforts have not triggered timely interventions to save lives.

A study on global sequencing efforts released on Thursday said India had until June 2 documented over 28.3 million lab-confirmed Covid-19 infections but deposited 15,614 sequences in an international online sequence repository available for scientific analysis.

The Indian National SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog), launched in January 2021, has sequenced over 30,000 samples but scientists say this is below 4 per cent of the original target of sequencing 5 per cent of all the about 17 million positive cases detected since mid-January.

The consortium of 10 government labs across the country with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, as the nodal lab is tasked with looking for coronavirus variants that might be associated with unusual outbreaks, higher transmission or altered disease patterns.

Some medical researchers have said they are worried about both the low quantum of sequencing in the country and the significant lags between sample collection and sequence submission into the database for pattern detection and actionable alerts to governments.

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The Telegraph, 14 June, 2021, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/covid-worrying-shortfall-lag-in-genome-sequencing/cid/1818705?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tt_daily_twit


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