Throughput COVID-19 testing

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities today.

27th July: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities today via video conferencing. These facilities will ramp up testing capacity in the country and help in strengthening early detection and treatment, thus assisting in controlling the spread of the pandemic. These three high-throughput testing facilities have been set up strategically at ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai and ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata. They will be able to test over 10,000 samples a day. These labs will also reduce turn-around-time and exposure of lab personnel to infectious clinical materials. The labs are enabled to test diseases other than COVID as well. Post the pandemic, the labs will be able to test for diseases like Hepatitis B and C, HIV, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Dengue.

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