Prayagraj: In a breakthrough study, which involved medical and genetics from the University of Banaras Hindu (BHU), Varanasi and Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSED), Lucknow, has found that there is no trace of Coronavirus in Ganga water even during the peak of the second wave of pandemic Covid-19.
These findings have significance in the background of the fact that scientists in BSIP have found traces of Coronavirus in the water of the Gomti River in the state capital.
Happy! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see the results “Team Joint Bhu and BSED is investigating the question of the existence of Coronavirus in Ganga because many of the experts have shown a contrasting view when some human bodies are found floating in the Ganges river during May 2021 and some pictures This non-burning corpse floating in the Perkasa river has shaken the country “, said Prof.
Gyaneshwar Chaubey from the Zoology Department, Bhu.
Experts in the Field of Genetics More information, “To investigate the trace of Coronavirus in Ganga, the team has collected two samples every week, in one row of seven weeks, from Varanasi City, starting from May 15 to July 3”.
The same sample collection point in each collection and process to test the same sample every time “, said Prof.
Chaubey.
“Our team has extracted RNA and conducted RT PCR for all samples with positive and negative samples actually.
Strangely no samples collected from Ganges show a trace of RNA virus.
However, the samples collected from the Gomti River did show the existence of Virus RNA”, said Scientists e and head of BSED, Niraj Rai.
He added that his team had found the presence of the virus in Gomti even after treatment of waste water in two STP (waste treatment plants) of the city.
He added that the virus was found in Gomti last year (September 2020) and this year (May 21).
This finding is also important because of the fact that it has been done in the middle of the fear that the Ganges River water can be contaminated after several bodies are found floating in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and a large number of bodies buried on the edge of the peak of Covid.
-19 Pandemic.
Prof.
VN Mishra from the Department of Neurosciences, BHU and which is one of the major contributors in this study, said that this finding implies that Ganga water has several extraordinary properties because of the natural ‘virus fag’ in the water “.
“We are exploring more to understand this phenomenon,” said Prof.
Gyaneshwer Chaubey.
Apart from Prof.
Mishra and Prof.
Chaubey, the Varanasi team also includes active participation of Abhishek Pathak research scientists, Prajjval Pratap Singh, Debashruti Das and Bhargavi.