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ICMR team reaches Kozhikode after Nipah outbreak; relatives of patient test negativeA Nipah virus case has been confirmed in Kozhikode. An ICMR team has arrived to assess the situation. Close relatives of the patient have t...- Ebola watch: Health Ministry directs states, UTs to bolster surveillanceIndia is enhancing its readiness for Ebola. The Union Health Ministry has directed states to boost surveillance and hospital preparedness. ...
- Decentralize public health management, create trust: Ex Health Secretary K Sujatha Rao“Decentralization and community engagement are fundamental pillars of public health management. India has the knowledge, capability and cap...
- Telangana health minister faults private labs for high positivity rateBetween June 29 and July 5, Telangana recorded India’s highest test positivity rate at almost 28%. The cumulative test positivity rate was ...
- Telangana tops Covid-19 test positivity rate in June, blames private labsTelangana had the highest test positivity rate in the country this month which ranged between 20% and 32% in the period June17-23.
- Centre revises quarantine period to 1 week for doctors, health workers in COVID-19 facilitiesThe earlier May 15 advisory stated that high risk contacts should be quarantined for 14 days, tested as per ICMR testing protocol, actively...
- Plan on cards to keep tabs on migrants going homeThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is working on a new protocol for surveillance of migrants who moved home from cities to ensur...
- All protocols for setting up of BSL-3 lab completed, waiting for ICMR nod: Health SecretaryAll measures have been carefully completed and sent to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) New Delhi, he said, adding that the depart...
- Centre decides to withdraw faulty Covid 19 antibody test kits, cancels import orders from ChinaCentre cancels orders after it was found the kits from China were showing inaccurate results.
- Faulty antibody kits trigger blame gameThe manufacturers deny the tests are useless and say they need to be used correctly. The rapid antibody kits are meant to check whether a p...
- ICMR to give verdict on antibody kits next weekThe Indian Council of Medical Research has started analysing results from the evaluation of antibody test kits imported from China and will...
- After pause, ICMR says protocol key for antibody testsA day after the Indian Council of Medical Research halted antibody testing for two days after receiving complaints about inaccuracies, it a...
- ICMR DG asks health secy to disseminate advisory on rapid antibody testsThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday issued the advisory to start rapid antibody based blood tests for COVID-19 in are...
- ICMR issues advisory for rapid antibody-based blood tests for COVID-19India will now start rapid antibody based blood tests in clusters or evacuee centres.
- New testing strategy? Rapid antibody tests in hotspotsThe effort is to contain hotspots that can become centres of transmission of the disease.
- States tap private companies for coronavirus testing kits“We don’t have enough supplies and may run out of kits by the end of this week,” a health department official in Chhattisgarh told ET. The ...
- Coronavirus: All symptomatic cases could soon be tested, tooAn empowered group that had been set up to look at the testing protocol met on Tuesday and deliberated upon the need to extend testing to a...
- Covid-19 testing criteria may be widenedICMR has suggested that all with atypical pneumonia & close contacts of Covid-19-positive persons be tested.
- ICMR intensifies random testing to check for covid-19As the no. of positive coronavirus cases cross 100, ICMR intensifies the task to identify community transmission.
- Battling the epidemic: India readies treatment protocol for CoronavirusThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to allow a combination of lopin...
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