Covid Testing

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday asked the States and Union Territories to enhance Covid-19 testing in a strategic manner to track the spread of the pandemic. "Testing remains a key and crucial component of the framework," Union Health…
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Bhubaneswar: Aiming to make Hockey Men's Junior World Cup safe, secured and memorable for the players, the Odisha government is conducting Covid-19 tests of all players and officials participating in the sporting event. "Despite the…
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New Delhi: Children under 5 years of age have been exempted from both pre- and post-arrival Covid testing in the new guidelines for international travellers issued by India's Health Ministry on Thursday. However, if the child found…
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Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government has ordered a probe against all testing labs that are conducting Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) after several variation were found in the Covid-19 testing data during Mahakumbh mela this year. Reportedly,…
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Geneva: A test that can diagnose Covid-19 in minutes will dramatically expand the capacity to detect cases in low and middle income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The $5 test could transform tracking of Covid-19…
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Bhubaneswar: The Health and Family Welfare Department Government of Odisha via a notification reduced the maximum price for RT-PCR Covid-19 test conducted by private laboratories from Rs 2,200 to Rs 1,200. The Department added that Covid…
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Bhubaneswar: In an ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus, the researchers have developed a new test that can diagnose Covid-19 in just 20 minutes. The findings, published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, show the rapid…
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