New Delhi: The Center said on Monday that more than 16,000 covid-19 samples by Sentinel sites were sent in July and August to the intact genomic sequencing (WGS) to check the SARS-COV-2 variant.
The Ministry of Health Uni said there were several media reports that accused the sequencing of the genome and Covid-19 analysis declined sharply in India even when cases of disease continued to increase.
Since July and so on, to share sample samples that are accurate and communication WGS results on time, data for samples for WGS by Sentinel sites are shared through the integrated health information platform portal (IIP), he said.
This ensures real-time sharing of sample details and WGS results.
Thus, 9,066 samples were sent through Sentinel sites in July and 6,969 samples were distributed in August, the ministry said.
The genome surveillance of SARS-COV-2 is very important to determine the events and the prevalence of the variant that is a concern.
“No matter that the number of sequences, as quoted in the report, seems to be taken from the Covid19 Indian genome surveillance portal (http://clingen.ibib.res.in/covid19genomes/),” the ministry said.
“The order analyzed in the SFTP iGIB is in accordance with the date of the collection of samples and does not describe the number of sizes sorted in a certain month.
The sample sorted by the insacog consortium laboratory also depends on the sample sent by each country,” the ministry said in a statement.
Sequencing the initial section of the sample by insacog labs aimed at detecting a variant of a concern (VOC) among international travelers who entered and also to see if anyone with the VOC has entered the country in the past year (doubled the incubation period 28 days) from the date Establishment of Insacog (December 26, 2020).
To detect the presence of VOC domestically, five percent positive (by RT-PCR) is targeted to sort.
Both of these objectives were achieved at the end of January 2021, the statement said.
Many countries such as Maharashtra, Punjab and Delhi began to show increasing trends in February and in response, their sequencies were increased in four Vidharbha regencies, 10 Maharashtra districts and around 10 Punjab districts, said statement.
In addition, the numbers have not been repaired to 300 samples per month or 10 sentinel sites per country.
These are indicative and state numbers / UTS have been given flexibility to identify more Sentinel sites ensure geographical representation of all parts.
In addition to the Sentinel site, there are options to declare vaccine playback, reinfection or other unusual presentation samples to sort to insacog labs, the statement is stated.
Sentinel surveillance ensures that the sample of each country is geographically represented as five percent of random sampling strategies produce samples from certain districts represented by excessively, while some districts still do not represent from the country.
With a positive decline, the availability of samples from the Sentinel site serving districts with zero or one digit of a new weekly case has also dropped.
At present, more than 86 districts in this country have zero new weekly cases, the statement said.
“During the last month the majority of new cases only from Kerala and Maharashtra.
At present, of a total of 45,000 new cases, more than 32,000 cases come from Kerala and more than 4000 cases from Maharashtra which means 80 percent.
Cases come from two states and only 9000 cases, which is around 20 percent, comes from all Indian states.
“This is also reflected in the soup sorted by various countries,” said the statement.
Since July, to share the accurate details of the sample and timely communication from the results of WGS , data for samples for WGS by Sentinel sites are shared through the IIP portal which ensures real-time sharing from the sample and WGS results.
More than 16,000 covid-19 samples were sent for the sequencing of the entire genome in July, August: Center
