New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): India has achieved the milestone of conducting 10 crore COVID-19 tests, ICMR said on Thursday noting that the figure was achieved after over 10 lakh samples were tested on average per day for the past 17 days.
New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The Delhi High Court asked Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to file affidavits regarding pendency of approvals to 'FELUDA', a test used for detecting COVID-19 infection.
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.
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.
San Francisco [USA], October 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Governor of the U.S. state of Oregon Kate Brown on Tuesday announced a plan to deploy a huge influx of rapid COVID-19 tests from the federal government.
Moscow [Russia], October 3 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 47.2 million tests for COVID-19 have been performed in Russia since the outbreak, the country's consumer rights and human welfare watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday.
Washington [US], October 02 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) said that he and first lady Melania Trump have undergone COVID-19 tests after one of his senior advisers tested positive for the infection, and added that they will begin their quarantine process.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 30 (ANI): Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that the total number of COVID-19 tests has surpassed one crore mark in Uttar Pradesh.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], September 26 (ANI): Around 900 people including MLAs and staffers will be tested for the novel coronavirus ahead of the monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly.
Multan [Pakistan], September 25 (ANI): Twenty-one members of the men's national team including Abid Ali and Haider Ali, who toured England for three Tests and as many T20Is, have joined their respective First XI sides on Friday in Multan after they returned second negative Covid-19 tests.
New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday said that the lower House of parliament saw 68.65 per cent average attendance of members during the monsoon session, which had 10 sittings and was held with precautions against COVID-19.
Madrid [Spain], September 23 (ANI): Real Madrid conducted Covid-19 tests on the first team and the coaching staff and no one returned positive for the infection, announced the club on Wednesday.