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Delhi gets first-of-its-kind lab to detect Covid variant, results in 3 to 4 days

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Delhi's second genome-sequencing laboratory at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) was inaugurated by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday.

While opening the facility, he said, "it will help detect new variants of the coronavirus and ascertain their severity." "Results will come in 3-4 days.

We can quickly detect a new variant. This lab is probably the only lab of its kind in northern India," Kejriwal said. Later he tweeted in Hindi, "Keeping in view the need of the future, a second genome-sequencing laboratory was inaugurated at ILBS today.

These labs will help us identify new virus strains and ascertain their severity. People of Delhi will benefit a lot from this technology in the times of coronavirus." Kejriwal had on

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