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Highlights Of Swasth Bharat, Sampann Bharat Telethon- Leaving No One Behind

Highlights Of Swasth Bharat, Sampann Bharat Telethon- Leaving No One Behind

NDTV and Dettol have been jointly working towards a clean and healthy India since 2014 via the Banega Swachh India initiative, which is helmed by Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan. In the eighth year, the campaign aims to highlight the inter-dependency of humans and the environment, and of humans on one another with the focus on One Health, One Planet, One Future – Leaving No One Behind.

Here are the highlights of Swasth Bharat, Sampann Bharat Telethon with Amitabh Bachchan:

Oct 03, 2021

17:31 (IST)

Aditi Hazra, Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical Schooll explains about Genome Sequencing

Genome sequencing is technology that we can use to understand the complete sequence and order of a virus. Humans have a 3 billion DNA basis. Virus has 30,000 RNA basis and they are represented as chemical ladders. As it spread from person to person, it was replicating itself. Occasionally it would make an error in that copy like a spelling error and that could have a different meaning. We saw that during spring surge. Delta variant is more transmissible and attaching to human more robustly. Although other variants are also emerging, sequencing allows us to track those.