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Eye on Covid-19 variants, genome study to be targeted in Mumbai
Updated On: 13 August, 2021 07:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Somita Pal
BMC creates categories to test samples of COVID-19 patients, will prioritise those of critical, prolonged and fatal cases
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BMC staff tell visitors at Marine Drive to wear masks properly. Pic/Bipin Kokate
In order to understand if a variant has a role behind critical, prolonged and fatal COVID-19, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to collect samples of only severe COVID-19 patients for genome sequencing.
The corporation has its own genome sequencing machine which was inaugurated on August 4 at Kasturba Hospital.
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