New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): A total of 1,15,519 samples of COVID-19 have been tested in the last 24 hours taking the total samples tested to 57,74,133 in the country, as per information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 (ANI): As throat swab samples started piling up in government-operated labs around the nation, the government of Nepal has decided to let private labs conduct the tests.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 12 (ANI): The King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow informed that out of total 1,916 samples tested for COVID-19 on Thursday, results of 58 were positive.
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 10 (ANI): The Afghan health ministry on Wednesday reported 684 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,128 samples tested in the last 24 hours, Tolo News reported.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 7 (ANI): The King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow has informed that out of total 2,006 samples tested for COVID-19 on Saturday, results of 72 were positive.
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), a lab under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Saturday said that it has developed an indigenous nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs for collecting samples from the throat cavity of COVID-19 patients.
New Delhi [India] June 5 (ANI): Indigenous IgG-based ELISA kits for COVID-19 testing have been found to be sensitive and specific for the detection of coronavirus infection in human serum samples.
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): An inquiry has been initiated against eight coronavirus-testing labs in Delhi for taking samples against ICMR protocol.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 3 (ANI): The Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun has set up a COVID-19 testing facility in a record time of seven weeks that can handle 100-200 samples daily.
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday said that a total 1,37,158 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. With this, the total number of tests have reached 41,03,233 in the country.
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Over one lakh samples are being tested every day to detect coronavirus infection, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday, adding that India is far from the peak of COVID-19.
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 2 (ANI): Out of 12,613 samples, as many as 82 tested positive for COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the total coronavirus cases in the state to 3,200, said the sate COVID Nodal Officer.