{"id":18534,"date":"2025-05-25T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18534"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:15:21","slug":"insacog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/insacog\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>One case of the newly emerging COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 and four instances of the LF.7 type have been detected in India, according to Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) data.<\/p>\n<h2>About Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>INSACOG was established by the Government of India in\u00a0<strong>December 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was j<strong>ointly initiated by<\/strong>\u00a0the Union\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Health,<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Department of Biotechnology (DBT)<\/strong>\u00a0with the Council for Scientific &amp; Industrial Research (<strong>CSIR<\/strong>) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (<strong>ICMR<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>consortium of 54 laboratories to monitor the genomic variations in the SARS-CoV-2 by a sentinel sequencing effort<\/strong>\u00a0which is facilitated by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, involving the Central Surveillance Unit (CSU) under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>mandate\u00a0<\/strong>of INSACOG\u00a0<strong>has evolved with time,\u00a0<\/strong>and the focus has shifted from primarily tracking variants among international passengers\u00a0<strong>to early detection of variants that may emerge within the country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has the\u00a0<strong>following objectives:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Early detection of genomic variants<\/strong>\u00a0of public health implication through sentinel surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>determine<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>genomic variants in unusual events\/<\/strong>trends (vaccine breakthroughs,\u00a0<strong>super spreader events,\u00a0<\/strong>high mortality\/morbidity trend areas, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>correlate\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<strong>genome surveillance data with epidemiological data.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To<strong>\u00a0suggest public health actions<\/strong>\u00a0based on the analysis of genomic and epidemiological surveillance data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>data\u00a0<\/strong>from the genome sequencing laboratories is being\u00a0<strong>analysed as per the field data trends to study the linkages,<\/strong>\u00a0if any, between the genomic variants and epidemiological trends.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0<strong>helps to understand superspreader events and outbreaks\u00a0<\/strong>and strengthen public health interventions across the country to\u00a0<strong>help in breaking the chains of transmission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the primary function of INSACOG?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 genomic variations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which organizations, apart from the Ministry of Health and DBT, are involved in INSACOG?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. ICMR and CSIR<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. How many laboratories are part of the INSACOG consortium?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 54<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/emergence-of-new-covid-variants-detected-in-india\/article69614635.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) was established by the Government of India in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[542,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-18534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indian-sars-cov-2-genomics-consortium-insacog","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}