Second genome sequencing lab opens

This is a more advanced facility, Kejriwal says day after inaugurating lab at LNJP

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday inaugurated a state-of-the-art genome sequencing facility at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) here. “The lab has already been set up and the first set of results will come in the next 4-5 days. Yesterday, we launched a similar laboratory at Lok Nayak Hospital, but this is going to be an even more advanced one. I really feel that the people of Delhi will highly benefit from this lab and the facility that it will cater to,” Mr. Kejriwal said. “Until now, we were dependent on National Cooperative Development Corporation and other centres of the Central government for this sequencing. But now, we are independent and will be able to identify the variants on time and take the right actions so as to strategise our plans for any next wave, if at all it comes,” he said.