The government aims to ramp up India s daily testing capacity for COVID-19 to 45 lakh by end of June from the current capacity of 16-20 lakh per day, the Centre said on Thursday as a record 20.55 lakh tests were conducted in a span of 24 hours. On augmenting testing for COVID-19 while ICMR has so far approved a home-based rapid antigen testing (RAT) kit manufactured by Mylab Discovery Solutions Ltd, Pune, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said kits by three more companies are in pipeline and likely to get the approval within a week. Bhargava said kits for home testing will be available in market in 3-4 days.
Covid-19 ravages India, health professionals have to fight with a rare
âMucormycosisâ or âBlack Fungusâ infections that showed a rapid rise
among the Covid-19 patients in different Indian states.
The rare but fatal fungal infections that detected in the country
roughly two months back also reported from various Indian states that
prompted the authorities to declare the disease as âepidemicâ under
the âEpidemic Disease Actâ of India.
The Indian health ministry today sent a letter to all state
governments asking to list the âMucormycosis or Black Fungusâ
infection under the âEpidemic Diseases Actâ and notify it to the union
health ministry.
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