This is a more advanced facility, Kejriwal says day after inaugurating lab at LNJPChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday inaugurated a state-of-the-art genome sequencing facility at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) here. “The lab has already been set up and the first set of results will come in the next 4-5 days. I really feel that the people of Delhi will highly benefit from this lab and the facility that it will cater to,” Mr. Kejriwal said. “Until now, we were dependent on National Cooperative Development Corporation and other centres of the Central government for this sequencing. The facility can sequence nearly all 30,000 molecules of the COVID-19, in fact, the whole length of the virus, he said.

Source: The Hindu July 08, 2021 18:45 UTC