The lab is being set up at the city's Dr Anjali Chatterjee Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy.
The virology laboratory, established at a cost of Rs 5 crore, besides conducting basic and fundamental research in Homoeopathy for viral diseases like influenza, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, chickungunya and swine flu, would also develop new drugs and technologies.
According to a senior doctor at the Institute, the drugs would be developed in the virology laboratory to combat emerging challenges of viral diseases.
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