International arrivals running smoothly; 1,013 passengers completed arrival formalities: Delhi airportIn a series of tweets, Delhi airport said operations for international arrivals are running smoothly after the implementation of the new gu...
01 Dec, 2021, 10.30 AM 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
Plea against ICMR advisory barring repeat of RTPCR on COVID positive patients; HC seeks Centre standThe petitioner has challenged ICMR's May 4 advisory as due to it, neither he nor his family members could get tested again after spending m...
01 Jun, 2021, 05.10 PM IST
Maybe re-look advisory barring repeat of RTPCR on COVID positive patients: HC to ICMRThe suggestion by the court came while hearing a plea by a lawyer who has challenged the advisory as due to it, neither he nor his family m...
25 May, 2021, 07.01 PM IST
Labs in Delhi halt services over delay in giving out test results amid COVID-19 spikeDespite having sufficient infrastructure and equipped with machines and testing kits, many labs are closing themselves for three to four da...
21 Apr, 2021, 08.55 AM IST
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.
11 Dec, 2020, 01.52 PM IST
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...
04 Dec, 2020, 09.17 AM IST
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...
01 Dec, 2020, 03.06 PM IST
Amit Shah launches mobile RT-PCR lab in Delhi; will conduct free COVID testsThe Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing mobile laboratory, a joint initiative of the SpiceHealth and the government, came ...
24 Nov, 2020, 01.42 PM IST
As Delhi struggles, Tamil Nadu conducts 11.3 million RT-PCR testsDelhi has witnessed a surge in Covid-19 cases since October 28, when the daily count of new infections breached the 5,000-mark for the firs...
19 Nov, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
COVID-19: RT-PCR test conducted at IIT Delhi at just Rs 1200The laboratory is conducting the tests through RT-PCR kit COROSURE developed with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The COROSURE t...
04 Nov, 2020, 07.13 AM IST
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...
27 Oct, 2020, 07.50 PM IST
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...
24 Sep, 2020, 09.50 PM IST
With Monsoon session underway, daily antigen test for reporters, Parliament staff now mandatoryJournalists covering the Monsoon session from press galleries of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha also have the option to undergo the RT-PCR test ...
18 Sep, 2020, 12.48 PM IST
Rapid antigen tests are cheaper & give quick results but RT-PCR tests are more reliable, say scientistsIf someone has symptoms, he/she should be retested. The idea is that no positive Covid-19 cases are missed.
17 Sep, 2020, 10.34 AM IST
Rapid antigen tests can be no more than adjunct to RT-PCR in corona battle: ScientistsThe ministry noted that symptomatic cases tested negative by RATs are not followed up by RT-PCR testing in some large states. The idea is t...
11 Sep, 2020, 05.35 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