{"id":94669,"date":"2020-04-17T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T10:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=94669"},"modified":"2020-04-17T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T10:18:37","slug":"kiosk-for-covid-19-sample-collection-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/kiosk-for-covid-19-sample-collection-developed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiosk for COVID-19 sample collection developed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which indian organisation has recently developed kiosk for COVID-19 sample collection?<br>(a)ICMR<br>(b)AIIMS<br>(c)OFB<br>(d)DRDO<br>Answer: (d)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Defence Research &amp; Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, a laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed COVID Sample Collection Kiosk (COVSACK) on April 14, 2020.<\/li><li>The unit has been developed by DRDL in consultation with the doctors of Employees&#8217; State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Hyderabad.<\/li><li>COVSACK:<\/li><li>It is a kiosk to be used by healthcare workers for taking COVID-19 samples from suspected infected patients.<\/li><li>Patient under test walks into the Kiosk and a nasal or oral swab is taken by health care professional from outside through the built in gloves.<\/li><li>The Kiosk is automatically disinfected without the need for human involvement, making the process free of infection spread.<\/li><li>The COVSACK costs nearly Rs 1 lakh and the identified industry based at Belgaum, Karnataka can support 10 units per day.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author: Himanshu Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1614372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1614372<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which indian organisation has recently developed kiosk for COVID-19 sample collection?(a)ICMR(b)AIIMS(c)OFB(d)DRDOAnswer: (d)Related facts: Defence Research &amp; Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, a laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed COVID Sample Collection Kiosk (COVSACK) on April 14, 2020. The unit has been developed by DRDL in consultation with the doctors of Employees&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":94670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-94669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94669","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94669"}],"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=94669"},{"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=94669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}