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ICMR releases revised guidelines for COVID-19 testing
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released revised guidelines for TrueNat, a comprehensive assay for screening and testing for positive cases for COVID-19, on Tuesday.
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Health Ministry issues guidelines for RT-PCR pool testing
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) on Thursday issued guideline for RT-PCR based pooled sampling for migrants and those returning from abroad and kept in quarantine facilities.
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India will reach 2 million COVID-19 tests today, says Harsh Vardhan
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Exuding confidence that India will achieve the testing capacity of 1 lakh COVID-19 tests per day before May 31, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that the country will reach the mark of 2 million (i.e. 20 lakhs) coronavirus tests today.
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K'taka to use re-modelled KSRTC buses as mobile fever clinics for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 12 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday launched mobile fever clinics for COVID-19 testing operating out of re-modelled KSRTC buses.
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Health Ministry to conduct population-based sero survey in select district
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday decided to conduct a population-based sero survey in select districts of the country with an aim to monitor the trend in the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Punjab CM pitches for lockdown extension with 'carefully crafted strategy'
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], May 11 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday pitched for extension of the lockdown with a "carefully crafted strategy", which is to be backed by fiscal and economic empowerment of the states to save lives and secure livelihood.
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Karnataka CM inaugurates 4 buses converted into COVID-19 testing facilitie
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 11 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday inaugurated four buses that have been converted into COVID-19 testing facilities in Bengaluru.
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2 trains with migrants to reach Udhampur tomorrow; arrangement for corona
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 11 (ANI): Two special trains carrying migrants are expected to arrive at Udhampur on Tuesday and accordingly the J-K administration has made arrangements for their COVID-19 tests.
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Migrants at quarantine facility in Muzaffarpur stage protest demanding COV
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], May 10 (ANI): As many as 160 migrant workers staying at a quarantine facility in Muzaffarpur on Sunday, protested demanding COVID-19 testing and sanitization in the facility, after three people tested positive for the deadly virus.
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New COVID-19 test lab opens at Davanagere's SS Hospital
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Davanagere (Karnataka) [India], May 9 (ANI): The newly built COVID-19 test laboratory at SS Hospital in Davanagere city was declared open by the Minister of Urban Development BA Basavaraju and Dr Sudhakar, Medical Education Minister on Saturday.
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Combating COVID-19: ICMR partners with India Post for delivery of testing
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has joined hands with the India Post for the delivery of kits from its 16 regional depots to 200 additional labs designated for COVID-19 testing across the country.
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Feluda! India's first pocket friendly, paper testing kit delivers COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): 'Feluda' a paper-based testing strip developed indigenously by a team of young scientists of the Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) can now within minutes let people know whether or not they are infected with COVID-19.
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