New Delhi: Waste samples will be collected as part of the environmental supervision that will soon be launched for SARS-COV-2 to ensure the intensity of the circulation of viruses in the community and detect the emergence of a new variant, the official source said on Wednesday.
This exercise will be carried out as part of the activity of supervision of insacog genomes and institutional chains and laboratories will participate in it.
The Consortium of Indian SARS-COV-2 in the Genomics (Insacog) is a grouping of 28 laboratories involved in monitoring variations in the genome in Coronavirus in this country.
According to sources, environmental supervision will complete the current genome supervision carried out on Sentinel sites throughout the country, including tertiary care hospital networks and medical colleges.
This technique is standardized and will be built on the network set for economic supervision of polio, they said.
“Sarveilinos of the SARS-COV-2 environment is part of the overall approach to the third or subsequent wave mitigation of Covid-19,” the official source said.
For polio eradication activities, environmental supervision is a tool for initial pickup of circulation of viruses in the community and also to ensure supervision of high-quality acute flaccid paralysis.
“India has been at the forefront of environmental supervision during the polio program and has become one of the first countries to start environmental supervision for it.” Even today, environmental supervision is considered a sensitive and effective tool to identify the circulation of every malignant polyovirus even.
When there is no real evidence about clinical polio cases, “the source explained.
Building the same experience, this country now starts environmental supervision for SARS-COV-2 and its variants.” This exercise will involve collecting waste samples from strategic points from urban areas to identify the initial variant and interesting variants, “said the source, adding this will help in identifying the intensity of viral transmissions in the community and the dried colonies.
This exercise will begin in the next few weeks.
and will be carried out in major cities and urban settlements, including Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi.
L aboratori and institutional biotechnology department, scientific and industrial research council, Indian Medical Research Council, Center Disease and state control will conduct this national supervision.