Covid-19 positive patients in 17 bio-repositories meant for research and development of vaccine and therapeutics for coronavirus.The government notified these bio-repositories on 23 May 2020.
These are set up at laboratories of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).Also Read | Vaccination drive picks up slowlyA total of 90,361 samples including serum, masopharyngeal swab, plasma, peripheral blood mononuclear Cells etc have been archived so far across the 17 National Covid-19 bio-repositories.While 11,650 samples have been archived in ICMR Covid-19 bio-repositories, 41,239 samples have been archived in DBT Covid-19 bio-repositories and 37,472.