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Test asymptomatic pregnant women living in containment zones or hotspots:
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday issued a strategy for testing pregnant women for coronavirus, if a woman lives in a containment zone.
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Assam has suspended rapid antibody tests for next 2 days: Himanta Biswa Sa
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 22 (ANI): Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that the state government has suspended rapid antibody tests for the next two days in view of the advisory issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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South Korean firm begins production of COVID-19 rapid test kits at Manesar
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], April 22 (ANI): SD Biosensor, a South Korean bio-diagnostic company, has started production from its Manesar facility with a capacity of 500,000 rapid test kits per week, the Indian Embassy in Seoul said on Tuesday.
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Adityanath stresses need for pool testing in COVID-19 prevalent areas
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 21 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday stressed the need for pool testing in COVID-19 prevalent areas.
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YSRCP MLA asks opposition to stop 'petty politics' over price of COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], April 21 (ANI): YSR Congress Party MLA Kasu Mahesh Reddy on Tuesday urged the opposition in Andhra Pradesh to stop "politicizing" the issue of prices of testing kits brought by the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government as the prices were lower than the ones at w
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ICMR tells states to not use COVID-19 rapid testing kits for two days
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday advised the states to stop using COVID-19 rapid testing kits for the time being owing to big variations in their results and added that it would issue an advisory in this regard in the next two days.
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Adityanath reviews lockdown situation in UP, urges more COVID-19 testing
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 21 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday reviewed the lockdown situation in the state and directed senior officials to conduct more COVID-19 testing.
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Rajasthan stops COVID-19 rapid tests, says Health Min Raghu Sharma
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], April 21 (ANI): Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma said that the state has stopped conducting rapid tests for COVID-19 as the accuracy of kits from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is "questionable".
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New York launches widespread COVID-19 antibody testing
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 21 (ANI): New York on Monday (local time) launched a large-scale COVID-19 antibody testing of random samples in an effort to find out how much of its population has been infected with the coronavirus.
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TDP, BJP raking up unnecessary controversy over rapid testing kits: Andhra
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], April 21 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas hit out at TDP and the BJP alleging that both parties have been raking up unnecessary controversy on coronavirus rapid testing kits that are being procured by the state. Read More
Seriously addressing issue of non-standardised kits in West Bengal: Direct
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 21 (ANI): Dr Shanta Dutta, Director of ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) on Monday said that it was unfortunate that the NIV kits were not standardised by the manufacturing company which had caused problems in West Bengal and
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11 staff members of Mumbai hospital discharged after testing negative for
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 20 (ANI): Out of the 35 staff members of a Mumbai based hospital who had tested positive for coronavirus, 11 were on Monday discharged after testing negative.
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