COVID-19: ICMR Scales Up Facilities, Approves 201 Govt, 86 Pvt Labs, 3 Collection Centres

NEW DELHI: ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories.

We are working towards validating diagnostic kits for COVID-19 testing and screening. 9 of the rapid antibody kits validated by @icmr_niv are manufactured in India! For more details visit: https://t.co/kH4qIFn4kt #ICMRFIGHTSCOVID19 #IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/qcccwsaTUN

— ICMR (@ICMRDELHI) April 20, 2020

As of now, 201 government laboratories, three collection centres and 86 private laboratories’ chains have been given the approval to conduct the test for COVID-19.

ICMR has said that the daily COVID-19 testing capacity at various laboratories in the country will be scaled up in the future and it is expected to reach one lakh tests per day by the end of the next month.

So far, ICMR has validated 33 real-time PCR kits manufactured by 15 companies including My lab, Altona Diagnostics, SD biosensor, Helini Biomolecules and other.

from League of India