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Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Monday directed the state government to ramp up daily numbers of RT-PCR tests for Covid-19. The court asked the health authorities to conduct a lakh RT-PCR tests every day. It also directed them to provide separate details about the RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests in the daily Covid bulletin. […]

New Delhi: Passengers travelling from or transiting through “at-risk” countries will have to undergo RT-PCR test on arrival in India and will be required to wait for the results before leaving the airport or taking a connecting flight, according to revised guidelines issued on Sunday after the emergence of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19. […]

The panel also granted two weeks to the State government to come up with its pricing of medical tests in Telangana

Health officials urge individuals, who are unsure of their Covid status, not to wait for tests if they have symptoms

“The Chief Minister is completely fit and the RT-PCR test will be conducted in a day or two again,” Dr Rao said.

When the two landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad on February 25, their samples were collected for Covid-19 test

Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir have been reporting a high active caseload or an increasing trend in new cases in the last week.

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

Flight services between the two countries were suspended on December 22 in the wake of a more infectious coronavirus strain found in UK's population. Th services will resume on January 6.

According to District Medical and Health officials, all the persons who tested positive were kept under home isolation as all the cases were asymptomatic.