{"id":130747,"date":"2022-01-27T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130747"},"modified":"2022-01-27T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:24:41","slug":"development-of-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/development-of-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of OM : The RT-PCR kit for Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Which of the following has recently(January 2022) developed the OM(RT-PCR kit for Omicron) ?<\/strong><br>a. CSIR &#8211; CDRI<br>b. AIIMS<br>c. Torrent Pharma<br>d. None of the above<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CSIR &#8211; CDRI scientists have recently(January 2022) developed the OM(RT-PCR kit for Omicron).<\/li><li>The kit named as \u2018INDICoV-OmTM\u2019.<\/li><li>\u2018INDICoV-OmTM\u2019 kit is a first by any government institution for the omicron variant, will also make India self-reliant in RT-PCR diagnostics.<\/li><li>It enables quick and cost-effective detection of omicron variant over genome sequencing for a large population.<\/li><li>It was made within two months and will cost around Rs 150 and further, it will give the test results in around two hours.<\/li><li>Once the kit gets approval from the ICMR, it will be launched by mid-February.<\/li><li>ICMR stands for &#8212; Indian Council of Medical Research.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2022\/01\/24\/csir-cdri-scientists-develop-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2022\/01\/24\/csir-cdri-scientists-develop-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Which of the following has recently(January 2022) developed the OM(RT-PCR kit for Omicron) ?a. CSIR &#8211; CDRIb. AIIMSc. Torrent Pharmad. None of the aboveAns. a.Related facts &#8212; CSIR &#8211; CDRI scientists have recently(January 2022) developed the OM(RT-PCR kit for Omicron). The kit named as \u2018INDICoV-OmTM\u2019. \u2018INDICoV-OmTM\u2019 kit is a first by any government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[498],"class_list":["post-130747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-current-affairs-science-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130749,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130747\/revisions\/130749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}