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Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Till now, cases of black fungus have been reported in various parts of the country including Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar.
Govt says it aims to ramp up daily testing capacity for COVID to 45 lakh by June-end
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Govt says it aims to ramp up daily testing capacity for COVID to 45 lakh by June-endPTI
Last Updated: May 20, 2021, 07:39 PM IST
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Synopsis We are doing 16-20 lakh tests this week and we have a capacity of about 20 lakh tests by end of the month and upto the end of next month we can have the capacity of upto 45 lakh because ICMR has validated more than 105 RAT companies and approved 41 of them and 31 of them are indigenous ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said.
Identify Black Fungus As Epidemic: Centre To States May 20, 2021, 15:38 IST
New Delhi: Centre asked all the states to declare mucormycosis or black fungus as an epidemic. The Union Health Ministry sent a letter to the states and asked them to identify the mucormycosis disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act .
According to the report, any case of Black fungus has to be reported to the health ministry. Confirmed or under testing, all the cases should go to the ministry.
Health Ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal in the letter wrote that “All government and private health facilities and medical colleges have to follow guidelines for screening, diagnosis, management of mucormycosis.”