According to experts, while increasing the tests and capping the prices, the quality of consumables being used in testing coronavirus for collecting samples should not be compromised ...
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At the fifth episode of his weekly ’Sunday Samvaad' programme, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan talked about issues like COVID-19 vaccines, new testing techniques as well as the cases of reinfection ...
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According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a country needs to conduct 140 tests per day per million population for comprehensive surveillance of suspected COVID-19 cases ...
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According to WHO Director-General, rolling out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus will enable the expansion of testing, particularly in hard-to-reach areas that do not have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests ...
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The Indian Council of Medical Research believes that India has been at the forefront of pioneering testing platforms for ramping up the country's COVID-19 testing capacity ...
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Director General Dr Shekhar Mande informed that a team of young scientists have developed a paper-based diagnostic kit which is called now FELUDA for COVID-19 test ...
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Scientists from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research have developed a COVID-19 testing strategy that they claim is as reliable as RT-PCR but much cheaper and faster ...
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To not miss out on potentially positive case of COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry has urged all states and Union Territories (UTs) to mandatorily retest all symptomatic negative cases of Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) through gold-standard RT-PCR test ...
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) conducted a study to understand comparative analysis of pooled testing for five and 10 sample pools by RT-PCR at ten different laboratories conducting COVID-19 testing across the country ...
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Chief Minister Amarinder Singh believes that the distribution of free food packets would encourage poor families to go for early testing for COVID-19, which was imperative to check the spread of the pandemic ...
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