Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 25 (ANI): Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis has urged Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to increase COVID-19 testing in Mumbai, stating that there is a threat of a "bigger spread" in the absence of aggressive testing.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 25 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday directed officials to ramp up COVID-19 testing in the state and take the number of tests per day to 1 lakh-mark by July 27.
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 25 (ANI): The per million COVID-19 testing rate in Jammu and Kashmir stood at around three-and-a-half times the national average as it reached 44,744 as against 12,742 in the country, according to the information shared by the Department of Information
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 25 (ANI): BJP MP Shankar Lalwani on Friday said that Covid testing machine that gives results in an hour and which were to be provided by the government to Indore and Bhopal, will now be sent to more affected states.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 24 (ANI): Karnataka Government on Friday issued an order regarding the refixation of rates for RT-PCR testing and Rapid Antigen testing for private laboratories in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Friday suggested the Central government to find a mechanism and issue guidelines for COVID-19 testing facility for mentally ill homeless people, including those without any identity or address proofs.
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has established a COVID-19 testing facility at the Leh-based laboratory - Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR), according to an official statement.
Ladakh [India], July 23 (ANI): Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh RK Mathur on Wednesday inaugurated the COVID-19 testing facility established in adherence to the safety standards and advisories of ICMR at (DIHAR) lab in Leh on July 22.
New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI): Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General, Dr Balram Bhargava, have written to all states and union territories (UTs) to ramp up COVID-19 testing capacity.
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 21 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLC Sunil Singh on Monday said that the results of his samples collected for COVID-19 testing have not arrived even after more than a fortnight.