Mizoram to close schools for students of class 8 and below following spike in COVID-19 casesThe state government has also banned night church services and extended the duration of the existing night curfew in the state capital town...
Delhi HC seeks AAP govt stand on plea against Rs 800 price cap on RTPCR testsAssociation of Practising Pathologists has contended that the price fixed would not cover the cost of consumables to be used in the test.
Air India bans RT-PCR tests through Point of Care devices, Companies say decision unfairManufacturers of TrueNat and CBNAAT (cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test) systems said the decision was taken without any expla...
Uttar Pradesh government reduces cost of Covid-19 test to Rs 1,600 from Rs 2,500"The prices of RTPCR test kits and reagents used for COVID tests have come down. Hence, the April order on pricing of the test has been ame...
ICMR issues advisory allowing 'testing on demand' for COVID-19The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued an advisory on COVID-19 testing strategy, allowing 'testing on demand' for individ...
The coronavirus has reached sensitive tribal belts, can local administration check its spread?The question is whether the local administrations in these far-flung districts are equipped in terms of medical infrastructure and testing ...
PoC Covid-19 tests too fail to deliver fast results as India ramps up testingIn a meeting with state on Tuesday PM Modi, too, has advised the CMs to focus on testing, tracing and isolating contacts of infected people...
Indian companies ready to export coronavirus test kits, target Latin America, Eastern Europe marketsIndia has a manufacturing capacity of 1 billion RT-PCR kits. The country on an average is doing daily testing of 600,000 samples.
Centre releases Rs 890 crore as 2nd tranche of package for Covid health system preparednessThose who received financial assistance in the second installment include Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telan...
UP govt to undertake 3-day special campaign to curb COVID-19 spreadThe Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday announced a three-day special cleanliness campaign to curb the spread of COVID-19 infection and o...
Over 73.5 lakh samples tested for COVID-19 in India till June 23: ICMRThe apex health research body on Tuesday validated the 1,000th testing laboratory, ramping up the capacity for detection of COVID-19 in the...
India has now 901 labs for COVID-19 testing, recovery rate at 51%As per the government's data, there are 534 Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs (347 government and 187 private), 296 TrueNat based testing...
Covid-19 results in an hour: Dozen states, Centre, line up at this Goa startup for testing machinesRajasthan and Maharashtra are also in talks with the company for the TrueNat machines and the testing kits. The TrueNat machines and kits p...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath puts his state planes for Covid-19 serviceSince June 1 and before Wednesday, Adityanath’s state planes had already brought 41 TrueNat machines - which are being used to screen Covid...
Machines used for testing drug-resistant TB can be now used for confirmation of COVID-19 casesNow, the ICMR has issued revised guidelines for TrueNat testing for COVID-1, saying the "TrueNat system is now a comprehensive assay for sc...
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...
ICMR gears up for the worst, plans to test 1 lakh cases a dayICMR said it is considering some interventions to scale up testing capacity to 100,000 tests/day in coming months.