Mumbai airport puts in place necessary measures to implement health ministry's latest COVID-19 normsThis follows the World Health Organization's announcement that Omicron (B.1.1.529) has been classified as a COVID-19 Variant of Concern, it...
01 Dec, 2021, 06.05 PM IST
Opt between two Covid tests at airport; here are the detailsFollowing reports of the Omicron variant of coronavirus last week, authorities and firms across India have moved quickly to shield against ...
01 Dec, 2021, 05.33 PM IST
Supreme Court to take up fresh plea seeking to fix maximum rate for RT-PCR test to Rs 300A three-judge bench comprising Justices D Y Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat will take up the plea which also seeks early r...
29 Jun, 2021, 09.30 PM IST
India conducting 18-20 lakh COVID tests a day: ICMRStressing that early testing, isolation and home-based care is the key to control transmission, Bhargava said, "The RT-PCR testing capacity...
11 May, 2021, 07.38 PM IST
We want “real hard facts” and not just “information that would make the court happy”: Gujarat High CourtThe court also sought to know why the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is lagging in terms of updating the data on the availability of beds ...
04 May, 2021, 09.09 PM IST
COVID-19 second wave worrying; some states need to ramp up RT-PCR tests: CentreAddressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the Centre is continuously trying to help states and union territ...
13 Apr, 2021, 10.15 PM IST
UP to scale up RT-PCR tests as new Covid cases threaten to overwhelm stateThe CM has directed that the state increase the number of RT-PCR tests to 150,000, UP’s additional chief secretary of information, Navneet ...
12 Apr, 2021, 09.48 PM IST
SC asks Centre to respond on plea seeking uniformity in RT-PCR test rates across the country24 Nov, 2020, 03.01 PM IST
This paper-strip test with gene-editing technology can detect Covid-19 in less than an hourThe test has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).
23 Oct, 2020, 12.00 PM IST
ICMR issues advisory for use of Feluda paper strip testThe paper-strip uses cutting-edge CRISPR gene-editing technology to identify and target the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...
23 Oct, 2020, 11.39 AM IST
India's Feluda COVID-19 test cheaper, faster alternative to RT-PCR, say scientistsNamed after Satyajit Ray's famed detective, the Feluda test, which is priced at Rs 500 and can deliver a result in 45 minutes, is able to d...
28 Sep, 2020, 06.42 PM IST
GenePath Diagnostics develops quantitative COVID-19 test kit for drug makersThe kit is currently being used by a couple of unidentified drug makers in India, said GenePath Diagnostics CEO Nickhil Jakatdar. He said t...
22 Sep, 2020, 05.31 PM IST
UGC asks higher edu, research institutes to deploy RT-PCR machines in dist hospitals, labsThe higher education regulator has noted that temporary deployment of such machines can create additional facilities for around 60,000 test...
24 Aug, 2020, 03.08 PM IST
Rapid antigen tests strengthen fight against the coronavirus, say expertsThe experts feel that the rapid antigen test has changed the script for the national capital due to its affordability, quicker result and i...
26 Jul, 2020, 10.19 PM IST
Mylab launches machine to automate molecular diagnostic tests including those for COVID-19Earlier in March, Mylab had received commercial approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) for its COVID-19 test...
07 Jul, 2020, 01.43 PM IST
Kerala Institute says it has a faster and cheaper test for COVID-19A Kerala-based institute has developed a diagnostic test for Covid-19 which it claims can furnish results in less than half the time taken ...
17 Apr, 2020, 07.54 AM IST
Kerala institute Sree Chitra Tirunal develop new cheaper test for coronavirusThe test kit can detectthe "N Gene of SARS COV2 using reverse transcriptase loop-mediated amplification of viral nucleic acid (RT-LAMP). We...
16 Apr, 2020, 09.57 PM IST