Covid-19 Research Efforts

Covid-19 Research Efforts by IISc and IITs

Following are some of the efforts being put by IITs and IISc to solve the issues of urgent need with respect to Covid-19.
This is a personal collection of the information from different sources which are unverified.
This collection could be of help for collaborative research.


Research (India):

IISc: Source IIT Tirupati: IIT Guwahati: IIT Delhi: IIT Hyderabad: IIT Kanpur: IIT Roorkee: IIT Bombay: IIT Ropar: IIT Madras:
World wide Resources:
Research Articles:
  • Age-structured Impact of Social Distancing in India Paper

Possible Ideas and Solutions:

  • Crisis Management Platform for Realtime Covid Action
  • This would be a common platform to be used by all the teams who are involved in fighting with the Covid crisis. The platform would manages the on time request and response by the team. The platform also would prioritise the task to be taken at different point of time at different situations. The situation would be modelled by considering the place, person and healthcare system of the region.

  • Person to person test: How to ensure that everyone is Covid tested?
  • This is the only solution at this point of development! Since the vaccine for virus would at least take 12 -18 months as notified by WHO, the only measure to be taken at this point is to ensure that every human being is tested. This would help in keeping track of the potential carrier and spreader. The test data would also be crucial in taking the containment measures such as lock-down or clustered lock-down.
    Our idea is to develop a large scale data collection and analytics system to solve the problem. The solution would consists of two main components: the front-end data collection system and the back-end data storage and analytics system. The front-end system would be crowd as well as expert based with the help of user dashboard that would enable data entry by personal contact. The data entry need to be extensively carried out by an nominally trained expert who could be a medical student or a practitioner or also could be an engineering student. The data collection could also be done from the crowd with user friendly interface. The data collection could be done by meeting every individual of our country by visiting house to house or person to person. This would require an administrative support from the states. The crucial would be the back-end system which would collects the data online as well as offline (this has to be for the remote area data collection where there would be no internet). These data would be used for analysis to keep track of the cases as well as to ensure that every individuals are enquired about the their current health status. The enquiry and questions play a very very important role.
    The platform need to have two data bases - one the front end and one at the back end. There would be communication between front end and back end data base for data updates. The data collected from individuals would be used for keeping track of the health updates of the person. There could be different category of individual classified according to the health issues, their travel history of last one month, and other relevant data.
    The main objective of this work would be to ensure fast check up and case-by-case basis check-up. The data analysis plays a very important role.

  • Study of Lock-down as Containment Measure
  • Lock down seems to be the only effective measure to contain the spread of virus. However, the complete lock-down is impossible to implement in country such as India where the population diversity is large in terms of economy, life style, education, and information. Therefore, it is very much important to study the nature and structure of the lock-down from multiple perspective. A study is required to evaluate the various type of lock-down at the given situation.
    We need a mathematical model to capture the structure and impact of the lock-down. For example, the lock-down could be following structure: Complete lock-down, Clustered lock-down, Periodic lock-down, Activity based lock-down etc.