Question

Where was the first Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) Containment Mobile Laboratory inaugurated in February 2022 to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure of South Asia?

• A. Pune
• B. Nagpur
• C. Nashik
• D. Mumbai

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Nashik

• The first Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) Containment Mobile Laboratory was inaugurated in Nagpur in February 2022.

• Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar inaugurated the first Biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) containment Mobile Laboratory of South Asia in the Nasik district of Maharashtra.

• The mobile laboratory has been set up to investigate newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections that are highly infectious and of lethal potential to human beings.