Quarantine is must, says Maharashtra; Centre takes up the issueKarnataka earlier mandated RT-PCR tests for all arriving international passengers and home quarantine even if they tested negative
02 Dec, 2021, 07.36 AM 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
Canada extends ban on commercial and private passenger flights from IndiaTravelers eligible to enter Canada will be able to board direct flights from India once the restriction on direct flights expires, provided...
24 Sep, 2021, 10.50 AM IST
RT-PCR test must for travellers from select countries arriving in Mumbai from September 3All passengers will have to submit their self-declaration forms and undertakings to officers deployed at the airport and will have to under...
01 Sep, 2021, 08.42 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
Maharashtra scraps requirement of negative RT-PCR test for truck drivers entering the stateInstead of a negative RT-PCR test, the state government has now mandated that the body temperature and status on the Centre’s Covid-19 trac...
15 May, 2021, 05.19 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
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
Centre writes to states reporting spike in daily COVID-19 casesIndia has been witnessing a rise in the COVID-19 active caseload over the past few days which is pegged at 1,45,634 as on date and now cons...
21 Feb, 2021, 02.53 PM IST
Bangalore airport sets up 24 hour Covid testing facilityLocated near the arrivals area of the Terminal, the RT-PCR testing centre is managed and operated by Bengaluru-based Auriga Research Privat...
22 Dec, 2020, 10.28 PM IST
Odisha: COVID-19 RT-PCR test price reduced to Rs 400 at private labsAccording to the notification issued by the health and family welfare department, anyone undergoing RT-PCR test at private laboratories, wi...
02 Dec, 2020, 05.45 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
Assam announces COVID-19 prevention norms for passengers arriving by airAs per the guidelines, a person arriving in Guwahati by air will have to undergo Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) at a designated testing centre af...
26 Sep, 2020, 10.04 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
Diagnostic centres see increase in requests to do Covid-19 testsPrivate diagnostic centres and hospital laboratories have seen a 50% increase in the number of requests for RT-PCR tests within a day of ho...
01 Jun, 2020, 06.41 AM IST
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...
05 Apr, 2020, 01.34 PM IST
Coronavirus test should not cost more than Rs 4,500: Government to private labsAppropriate biosafety and biosecurity precautions need to be taken during the testing and while collecting the respiratory samples.
22 Mar, 2020, 09.41 AM IST