Updated On: 15 September, 2020 04:03 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The team conducting the research is awaiting the required permission from the ethical committee of the BHU

River Ganga
The Institute of Medical Sciences of the Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU) is now looking forward to conducting human trials of the Gangetic bacteriophages -- viruses that infect and kill bacterial cells -- to prove their therapeutic utility and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Covid-19).
The team conducting the research is awaiting the required permission from the ethical committee of the BHU.