Maharashtra govt slashes RT-PCR rates to Rs 1,975 from 4,500In the beginning, the price was Rs 4,500. Then it was cut down to Rs 3,900. And now it is slashed to Rs 1,975, said a press release. Today ...
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...
One-third of India's districts record over 5% positivity rateAccording to district-wise data collated by the ministry of health and family welfare between June 5 and 11, around 258 of the 734 district...
Tamil Nadu govt slashes RT-PCR test rates in private labs from Rs 1,200 to Rs 900Tamil Nadu has conducted over 2.50 crore RT-PCR samples since the onset of pandemic last year. On Thursday, the testing of samples reached ...
Assam private labs not keen on RT-PCR testsThe Assam government has fixed ₹500 as the maximum price for an RT-PCR test and ₹250 for a rapid antigen test. If the sample for RT-PCR is ...
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...
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 ...
Private labs up in arms against states’ decision to cap rates of RT-PCR testsAccording to an order issued by Delhi’s health department, RT-PCR tests at all private laboratories and hospitals will cost ₹800 and home c...
After Delhi, Gujarat reduces COVID-19 test prices to ₹800 from ₹1,500 for private labs
Gujarat government slashes RT-PCR test price to Rs 800"From today, the government-authorised private laboratories will charge Rs 800 for an RT-PCR test, a reduction of Rs 700 from the current r...
CM Arvind Kejriwal issues directives to reduce price of RT-PCR test in Delhi"I have directed that the rates of RT PCR tests be reduced in Delhi. Whereas tests are being conducted free of cost in govt establishments,...
Delhi: 85% symptomatic negative cases of rapid-antigen tests underwent retest in OctoberThe increase in retesting numbers came after Special Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) Udit Prakash Rai issued a directive to all distr...
Reliance develops RT-PCR kit that can give COVID-19 results in 2 hoursThe sources said computational biologists at Reliance Life Sciences, a subsidiary of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries Ltd,...
After PM Modi’s diktat, Karnataka plans to scale up testing for Covid-19In a meeting chaired by chief secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar on Thursday, the state government decided to increase RT-PCR tests by threefold ov...
PM Modi asks CMs of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi to ramp up RT-PCR testingMaharashtra does about 50,000 RT-PCR tests daily out of the nearly 90,000 tests done in the state, the rest being rapid antigen tests. It i...
Karnataka sees a drop in RT-PCR tests as government pushes for cheaper antigen kitsThe more expensive RT-PCR test is considered the gold standard in detecting Covid-19 infections. Of the 42,458 tests done on August 3, 29,4...
Goa diagnostic company’s tuberculosis device could help scale up Covid-19 testingTruenat, a product of Molbio Diagnostics that’s been used to detect tuberculosis, also speeds up the reverse transcription polymerase chain...