The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has approved a simple and fast method for COVID-19 testing which can not only increase the n...

The laboratory is conducting the tests through RT-PCR kit COROSURE developed with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The COROSURE t...

The device is able to detect the coronavirus and distinguish it from other viruses with high accuracy, the researchers said in a pre-print ...

China is in a global race to develop cost-effective vaccines to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Using insect cells to grow proteins for the cor...

While the institute had kept a price rider of Rs 500 per kit, the company Newtech Medical Devices, which is launching the kit named 'corosu...

"Five-day institutional quarantine of each case under home-quarantine is to be made mandatory and, thereafter, (they) will be sent for home...

Pakistan's COVID-19 cases reached 132,405 after a record 6,472 new infections were detected, while 88 more people have succumbed to the cor...

Pooling of samples involves testing them in batches and when pooled sample tests positive, then individual samples are assessed. Pool testi...

Health Minister Raghu Sharma said the kits were giving mere five per cent correct or valid results and a report has been forwarded to the I...

In a big relief to the poor, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that private labs should conduct coronavirus tests free of cost, obser...

The concern is that private medical firms, like many businesses in India are struggling financially, and could go under if they tested for ...

As per the guidelines of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, polymer swab is used for collection of a sample from the upper resp...

In order to contain the rapid spread of novel coronavirus, the centre and the states have decided to announce a lockdown in 75 districts ac...

Appropriate biosafety and biosecurity precautions need to be taken during the testing and while collecting the respiratory samples.

The Union health ministry had on Tuesday issued guidelines for private sector laboratories intending to initiate coronavirus testing while ...

Edelweiss Securities said it prefers diagnostics firms over hospitals in a Covid-19 environment.

Swiss firm Roche Diagnostics India received the license for conducting coronavirus tests after approval from drug regulator DCGI, making it...