Abstract
COVID-19 pandemic has created huge havoc in public health in India and across the world. One among the small states of India, Mizoram lies between Bangladesh and Myanmar compelling a transmission risk of various infectious diseases across the boundary. The responsibilities of the authority to establish a screening and diagnostic laboratory is crucial to identify the infectious etiological agents, control, prevent morbidity, mortality, and burden of the diseases. We aim to discuss the need for an infectious disease surveillance system, the importance and role of advanced diagnostic and research laboratory in Mizoram, learning from SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Highlights
Illnesses caused by specific infectious pathogens or their toxic products result in spreading from an infected individual to a susceptible host through direct or indirect transmission, via vectors, and inanimate environment is termed infectious disease.[1]
Diseases whose incidence in humans have increased in the recent past or may threaten to rise in future are known as emerging infectious diseases (EIDs)
Other northeast Indian states were neither free from Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2, Assam with the highest infected and mortality due to COVID-19.19 As of 28 November 2020, 1175 government and 986 private laboratories including Real-time RT-PCR and TrueNat or cartridgebased nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT) testing facilities had been approved by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for diagnosis of SARS CoV-2 since pandemic.[20]
Summary
Illnesses caused by specific infectious pathogens or their toxic products result in spreading from an infected individual to a susceptible host through direct or indirect transmission, via vectors, and inanimate environment is termed infectious disease.[1]. A coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS CoV-2 from an outbreak in Wuhan City of China progressively turned pandemic; infected more than 55 million people around the world.[4,5] SARSCoV-2 is a positive-sense RNA virus, with a genome length of approximately 30 kb. Other northeast Indian states were neither free from SARS-CoV-2, Assam with the highest infected and mortality due to COVID-19.19 As of 28 November 2020, 1175 government and 986 private laboratories including Real-time RT-PCR and TrueNat or CBNAAT testing facilities had been approved by ICMR for diagnosis of SARS CoV-2 since pandemic.[20] Ministry of Health and family welfare (MoHFW) and ICMR have taken a great step in surveillance screening and detection of the virus by setting up a diagnostic laboratory, precautionary measures, prevention protocol, community guidelines, and reagents stock points, etc. ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 by Astrazeneca Non-replicating chimpanzee Adenovirus expressing spike protein[42]
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