{"id":96674,"date":"2020-06-24T06:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=96674"},"modified":"2020-06-24T06:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:04:36","slug":"first-mobile-i-lab-infectious-disease-diagnostic-lab-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-mobile-i-lab-infectious-disease-diagnostic-lab-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"First Mobile I-LAB (Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab) launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Who launched country\u2019s first mobile I-LAB (Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab) for COVID-19 testing on June 18, 2020?<\/strong><br>(a) Narendra Modi<br>(b) Dr. Harshvardhan<br>(c) Arvind Kejriwal<br>(d) Piyush Goyal<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Union Minister of Health &amp; Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched India\u2019s first mobile I-Lab (Infectious disease diagnostic lab) for COVID-19 testing on June 18, 2020 for last mile testing access.<\/li><li>These I-Labs will be deployed in remote, interior and inaccessible parts of the country and have capability to perform 25 COVID-19 RT-PCR tests\/Day, 300 ELISA tests\/day, additional tests for TB, HIV etc. as per CGHS rates.<\/li><li>The Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab (I-LAB) is supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science &amp; Technology, under the Covid Command strategy.<\/li><li>This I-Lab has been created by the Andhra Pradesh Med-tech Zone team with the support of DBT under the National Biopharma Mission in a record time of 8 days. The unit has biosafety facility and is capable of performing RT-PCR as well as ELISA tests.<\/li><li>This is a mobile diagnostic unit with biosafety facility. The I- lab is a BSL-2 facility with on-site ELISA, RT-PCR, Bio chemistry analysers. It can run 50 RT-PCR reactions and about 200 ELISA in a day. Double set of Machines can help increase the capacity to about 500 per day in 8 hours shift.<\/li><li>Specification of the I-LAB:<\/li><li>Automotive Chassis, Diagnostic Equipment, Clean Room, BSL-2 lab, bio-safety cabinets.<\/li><li>25 tests (RT-PCR) per I-Lab per Day, 300 ELISA tests\/day.<\/li><li>Additional test for other diseases for TB, HIV etc. to be costed as per CGHS rates.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By : Himanshu Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=209597\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"yoast-seo-link\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=209597<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who launched country\u2019s first mobile I-LAB (Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab) for COVID-19 testing on June 18, 2020?(a) Narendra Modi(b) Dr. Harshvardhan(c) Arvind Kejriwal(d) Piyush GoyalAnswer: (b)Related facts: Union Minister of Health &amp; Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched India\u2019s first mobile I-Lab (Infectious disease diagnostic lab) for COVID-19 testing on June 18, 2020 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":96675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-96674","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\/96674","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96674\/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\/96675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96674"}],"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=96674"},{"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=96674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}