INSACOG finds new ways for Covid-19 sampling amid a low case count

Plans afoot to expand INSACOG to South Asian countries

India is continuing to sequence samples of the Sars-Cov-2 virus despite a low case count of Covid-19 in the country.

The Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), set up under the health ministry, is not letting its guard down and also plans to expand the network to South Asian countries and collaborate to monitor the virus.

At a time when daily fresh case counts are below the 2,000 mark for a while now, India is sampling 100,000-150,000 samples from patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), said N K Arora, co-chair of INSACOG and also chairman of the Covid-19 working group,