{"id":95640,"date":"2020-05-15T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T12:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=95640"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T12:10:25","slug":"cobas-6800-testing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/cobas-6800-testing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"COBAS 6800 testing machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: COBAS 6800, a testing machine dedicated to nation on May 14, 2020 is equipped to perform how many tests in one day?<\/strong><br>(a) 1000<br>(b) 500<br>(c) 1200<br>(d) 800<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health &amp; Family Welfare visited the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and dedicated the COBAS 6800 testing machine to the nation on May 14, 2020.<\/li><li>This is the first such testing machine that has been procured by the Government for testing of COVID-19 cases and is installed at the National Centre for Disease Control.<\/li><li>COBAS 6800:<\/li><li>COBAS 6800 is a fully automated, high end machine for performing real time PCR testing COVID-19 in the service of nation.\u00a0<\/li><li>It will provide quality, high-volume testing with a high throughput of test around 1200 samples in 24 hours. It will largely increase the testing capacity with reduction in pendency.<\/li><li>It is enabled with robotics that minimizes the chance of contamination as well as the risk of infection to the health care workers.<\/li><li>COBAS 6800 can also detect other pathogens like Viral Hepatitis B &amp; C, HIV, MTb (both rifampicin and isoniazide resistance), Papilloma, CMV, Chlamydia, Neiserreia etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Himanshu Shukla<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1623782\">https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1623782<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: COBAS 6800, a testing machine dedicated to nation on May 14, 2020 is equipped to perform how many tests in one day?(a) 1000(b) 500(c) 1200(d) 800Answer: (c)Related facts: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health &amp; Family Welfare visited the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and dedicated the COBAS 6800 testing machine to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95640","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=95640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95640\/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\/95641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95640"}],"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=95640"},{"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=95640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}