Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG)
- August 21, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG)
Subject – Science and Tech
Context – Delta variant driving infections in India: report
Concept –
- It is a repository of labs tasked with monitoring the coronavirus variants.
- This is a network of 28 national laboratories — jointly set up by the Health Ministry, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Indian Council of Medical Research — has been sequencing samples collected from all over the country since the emergence of alpha variant (B.1.1.7) in the UK.
- INSACOG is a multi-laboratory, multi-agency, Pan-India network to monitor genomic variations in the SARS-CoV-2 by a sentinel sequencing effort