IIT Alumni Council will set up one of the world’s largest MegaLabs in Mumbai with a capacity of 10 million tests per month and will start identifying partners for the same through a global competition. While scientists are still at work to develop a vaccine, testing and biotherapeutics capacity have emerged as the biggest challenges. Announcing this initiative, Ravi Sharma, …

As the epidemic spreads across the world (Covid-19 has now reached some 80 countries) by the minute and has even actively been detected in India, governments are scrambling to tighten prevention efforts. There have been over 121,000 confirmed cases so far across the globe, and owing to its increased rate of spreading, officials are even considering cancelling the Olympics 2020.  …