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Hyderabad: The State government will implement the renewed Covid-19 testing guidelines that were released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), highlighting the need for a focused testing strategy on those who require the most and avoid wasting resources by offering Covid tests to healthy asymptomatic individuals. The refreshed ICMR guidelines had advised State […]

The earlier order had exempted those travellers who had taken both doses of COVID-19 vaccine from mandatory testing for infection at airports and railway stations.

At every step, all Covid protocols and precautions are being followed, and reports are sent online within 15-18 hours.

The dry swab-based direct RT-PCR method of Covid-19 testing developed by CCMB and approved by ICMR can now be adopted in testing labs of the country.

"Around 300 people created chaos at both places, mainly over payment of Rs 500 for the tests," Cachar district Additional Deputy Commissioner Sumit Sattawan said.

Paddapalli: Kamanpur police, who are playing a vital role to check the spread of Covid-19 by educating people, displayed their humanity by providing shelter to a corona positive patient and his family members. A family from Jharkhand engaged in centering work was staying in a rented house in Rompikunta of Kamanpur mandal. The owner of […]

The Union Health Ministry on Thursday informed Kerala and Maharashtra alone account for 75 per cent of new cases.

On December 13, Tamil Nadu reported 1,195 new cases of COVID-19, taking the tally of total cases to 7,98,888.

A total of 22 cases have now been linked to a cluster that emerged from an Adelaide hotel used to quarantine travellers from overseas.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 88,74,290 with 29,163 infections being reported in a day while the death toll climbed to 1,30,519 with 449 new fatalities.

Sample collection booths can collect approximately 120-130 samples per hour.

It mentioned that the COVID-19 test fees in India will be in accordance with the regulated prices set by local government bodies and the same rates will apply for children and adults.

With a spike of 62,212 new cases and 837 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count reached 74,32,681 on Saturday.

With an increase of 1,069 deaths reported on Saturday, the COVID-19 toll surpassed 1 lakh in India, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

The state has achieved a new milestone by conducting 50 lakhs COVID-19 tests so far and the government was aiming to increase the number of daily tests.