Digital surveillance to monitor and control COVID-19 spread

The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Institute of Genetics and Integrated Biology (IGIB), along with a few other institutions, are working for the digital and molecular surveillance of the spread of novel coronavirus to understand the biology, epidemiology and disease impact.

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Key-Points

The surveillance centre would be established at IGIB where all the labs, research centres, and hospitals will share their data through cloud sharing.

The surveillance will be done at three levels namely the virus, the patient, and the clinical course of the patient.

Surveillance at the virus level refers to the genome of the virus. For this, CCMB plays a major role, as it would provide the genome sequences.

The second part deals with the patient data, which is details of the patients looking at the clinical samples.

Thirdly, the clinical course details would be clinical care data or hospital data that leads to outcomes. Some patients require ventilators, while others are able to recover on their own.

The data will be used by the GoI to be linked to the Aarogya Setu app. The idea is to provide benefits to the maximum number of people.