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COVID-19 testing strategy changed in Delhi, says Satyendar Jain
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 29 (ANI): Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that the government has changed testing strategy for COVID-19, now the family members and close contacts of COVID-19 positive patients are also being tested, hence, the national capital is witnessing a
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Kochi based medical devices maker launches new Covid-19 testing kit
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], October 28 (ANI): Agappe Diagnostics Ltd, a Kochi-based medical devices manufacturer, is launching a new Covid-19 test kit based on RT-LAMP (Reverse Transcription Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification) technology.
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Several States, UTs exhibiting higher COVID-19 positivity rate than nation
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): There is a need for 'aggressive and widespread testing' as 14 states and Union Territories (UTs) are exhibiting positivity rate higher than the national average for COVID-19, said the Union Health Ministry on Friday.
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IIT Kharagpur's low cost COVID-19 testing method gets ICMR nod
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kharagpur (West Bengal) [India], October 22 (ANI): A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur has developed a low-cost portable unit for rapid diagnostics of coronavirus, which produces results in under an hour.
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The Rockefeller Foundation awards new grants to scale up COVID-19 testing
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [USA], October 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): To support the expansion of COVID-19 testing and contact tracing across India, The Rockefeller Foundation announced two new grants to The Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and PATH.
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With very high COVID-19 testing, India's positivity rate fallen below 8 pc
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): As India has scaled up its COVID-19 testing capacity from one in January to over 9.32 crore at present, the positivity rate has fallen below 8 per cent, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Sunday.
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India's COVID-19 testing crosses 9 crore-mark
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 14 (ANI): India has crossed the 9-crore mark of COVID-19 testing across the country on Wednesday after 11,45,015 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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Maintain standard procedures, quality testing for COVID-19 kits: Health ex
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 11 (ANI): With the central government capping prices for Covid-19 tests, health experts strongly opine on maintaining standard procedures and using quality testing kits.
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Kerala denies underreporting COVID-19 death cases, says follows scientific
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], October 11 (ANI): Rejecting reports that Kerala was underreporting COVID-19 death cases and carries out a lower number of testing, Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Sunday said that those are fake media reports and are baseless.
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'Riverdale,' 'Batwoman' resume production after Covid-19 testing backlog
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): With shooting for television series resuming in British Columbia after COVID-19 induced hiatus, productions for CW's 'Riverdale' and 'Batwoman' series have also resumed in Vancouver.
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With 828 tests/day per million population, India exceeds WHO advisory on C
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): India has exceeded the 140 tests per day for per million population, as advised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for comprehensive surveillance, of COVID-19 by nearly six times, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Monday.
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India scales up testing capacity from 1 in January to over 7.7 cr in Octob
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 4 (ANI): The testing capacity in the country has been ramped up at a significant pace to reach over 7.7 crores in October from just one in January this year, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Sunday.
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