Mumbai airport cuts Rapid PCR test price to Rs 3,900Stating that since 2 per cent of the total flight passengers are required to undergo RT-PCR test post-arrival testing at random at CSMIA on...
04 Dec, 2021, 05.46 PM IST
Delhi govt caps Covid RT-PCR test rate in pvt labs, hospitals at Rs 500; antigen test to cost Rs 300The health department has directed all private hospitals and laboratories to display the revised rates at a prominent place within 24 hours...
04 Aug, 2021, 09.25 PM IST
CCMB ties up with Meril to produce dry swab-based RT-PCR test kitsMeril is currently equipped to manufacture 2 crore kits a month where each kit suffices for 100 tests. Each test will cost Rs 45-60, the co...
08 Jul, 2021, 10.01 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
FELUDA kit more expensive, hence not as popular as RTPCR: ICMR to HCA bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli was told by ICMR that a FELUDA testing kit costs Rs 300, while that of RTPCR costs Rs 100....
13 May, 2021, 10.29 PM IST
Mumbai airport cuts RT-PCR test rate by 30 per cent to Rs 600Mumbai airport is offering the regular RT-PCR test at a reduced cost of Rs 600 as against Rs 850 earlier from April 1 to the passengers opt...
02 Apr, 2021, 08.48 PM IST
Covid: Maharashtra makes PCR test must for people coming from Delhi, 3 other statesMaharashtra is worried over rising number of Covid cases and on Monday, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the state may take some steps with...
11 Jan, 2021, 09.50 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
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
ICMR approves CSIR's COVID-19 testing method that can help ramp up number of RT-PCR testsThe Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has approved a simple and fast method for COVID-19 testing which can not only increase the n...
28 Nov, 2020, 07.59 PM IST
SC seeks Centre's response on PIL seeking to fix maximum rate for RT-PCR test uniformly across IndiaA petition has sought a direction to the governments to fix the maximum rate for the RT-PCR (real-time reverse transcription polymerase cha...
24 Nov, 2020, 08.37 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
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
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
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