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 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.
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Wednesday virtually launched the world's most affordable RT-PCR based COVID-19 diagnostic kit "Corosure" developed by IIT Delhi, and approved by the ICMR and DCGI.
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): The High Court here on Tuesday directed Delhi Government to file an affidavit clarifying as to how many persons who had undergone the rapid antigen tests and turned out to be COVID negative underwent RT PCR test.
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 7 (ANI): In an effort to make India Atmnirbhar' in testing, a Pune-based molecular diagnostics company, on Wednesday launched 'Compact XL' - India's first machine to automate the manual processes of molecular diagnostic tests such as RNA/DNA-based tests inclu
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 7 (ANI): Pune-based molecular diagnostics company, Mylab Discovery Solutions has launched 'Compact XL' - India's first machine to automate the manual processes of molecular diagnostic tests such as RT-PCR tests for Covid-19.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 3 (ANI): Odisha Government has fixed up the maximum price for RT-PCR COVID-19 test conducted by ICMR approved private laboratories at Rs 2200.
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Friday announced that rapid antigen testing kits have now reached Leh after setting up a lab for RT-PCR testing.
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): The Government of India on Saturday said that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has supplied diagnostic material for carrying out 4.7 lakh RT-PCR tests to the 12 functional labs in Delhi, till date.
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): Delhi government on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that it is making all out efforts to conduct high number of COVID -19 tests and from June 18 and June 23, around 1,09,196 samples have already been collected, including 68,041 rapid antigen tests.
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): After the government reduced prices for RT-PCR tests from Rs 4,500 to Rs 2,400, private labs claim to face serious hardship which in turn could force them to stop some of their services.