Scientists and engineers in India are collaborating at an unparalleled scale to understand all the aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic as the nation unites for the fight against the virus outbreak. In aims to bring all the scientific and factual aspects of this pandemic outbreak on to a public domain, a multi-institutional, multi-lingual science communication initiative, called `CovidGyan’ has been created. The initiative is the brainchild of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). An outcome of this initiative is the launch of a website that went live on April 03, 2020. This website also named CovidGyan serves as a hub to bring together a collection of resources in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Source: dna April 14, 2020 05:15 UTC