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Hiring more staff, expanding capacity and opening walk-in centres are some of the steps laboratories are taking to cope with the twin imperatives of increased tests and timely results as Covid cases spike sharply in the country. As India copes with an Omicron driven explosion in numbers, the spotlight is on laboratories that are pulling out all the stops to ensure they are

Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with Omicron variant.

Omicron is the the recently-detected COVID-19 variant which is believed to be more contagious than the other variants from the past.

Omicron, the newly-detected Covid variant which has stoked fears of vaccine resistance, is the most mutated version of the virus found so far. Health experts in India on Monday claimed that the currently available diagnostics measures may not make accurate detection of the Omicron Covid variant.

Omicron, the newly-detected Covid variant which has stoked fears of vaccine resistance, is the most mutated version of the virus found so far.Health experts in India on Monday claimed that the currently available diagnostics measures may not ...

Omicron, the newly-detected Covid variant which has stoked fears of vaccine resistance, is the most mutated version of the virus found so far. Health experts in India on Monday claimed that the currently available diagnostics measures may not make accurate detection of the Omicron Covid variant.

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Omicron, the newly-detected Covid variant which has stoked fears of vaccine resistance, is the most mutated version of the virus found so far.

Two Americans died and two became seriously ill from an obscure disease known as the "Vietnamese time bomb" after being infected with a bacterium linked to an India-manufactured aromatherapy spray sold in Walmart. The first infections of burkholderia pseudomallei were detected on Aug 9 by a laboratory of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in America. Technicians...

Indias covid collapse, part 4: How the delay in test results accelerated spread of the virus Sonali Acharjee When the World Health Organization declared Covid a global pandemic in early March last year, India had 14 RT-PCR testing labs. By end-March, the country had added 106 Virus Research & Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDLs). Far behind countries such as South Korea and the US initially in terms of the number of tests, India beefed up its testing capacity quickly. By April 2020, ...