The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has approved Tata Medical's indigenously made quick RT-PCR testing kit to detect the highly mutant coronavirus variant Omicron. In parallel to the ...

During the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), rapid testing was imperative for public health policymakers and health care workers in order to determine where and what measures ...

New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): With Omicron BA.2 sub-variant being hard to track, experts have said that RT-PCR still remains to be the 'gold standard' of COVID-19 testing. "It's very important ...

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan who chaired the high-level meeting stressed on ramping up testing with a higher proportion of RT-PCR, and whole genome sequencing of positive samples.

Under the new plan, suspected patients’ throat/nasal swab samples will be tested using a standard RT-PCR kit and if detected positive, the same sample will undergo a second test with an imported ...

With the central government recently stating that there has been a recent uptake of home tests for Covid-19, a private lab's chief has urged people to undergo an RT-PCR if they are symptomatic. “We ...

The Gujarat government today mandated RT-PCR testing for travellers landing at the airport from a host of countries, including South Africa, as growing concern over the new Covid variant Omicron takes ...

The government is conducting RT-PCR testing for people returning from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and South Korea. (AP)(MINT_PRINT) Passengers coming to India from or via Singapore ...

India developed a home-grown RT-PCR testing kit for Monkeypox, a virus recently declared a global health concern by WHO. The Siemens Healthineers' 'IMDX Monkeypox Detection RT-PCR Assay' received ...