Covid labs Delhi: Labs in Delhi halt services over delay in giving out test results amid COVID-19 spike
Synopsis Despite having sufficient infrastructure and equipped with machines and testing kits, many labs are closing themselves for three to four days citing overburden and shortage in manpower. Delhi is also witnessing a serious shortage in its oxygen capacity. A rapid rise in COVID-19 cases and exceeding requests for either RT-PCR or antigen tests has abruptly forced a majority of private laboratories to stop collecting swab samples even from testing centres for at least two days. As per a government bulletin on Tuesday evening, in the last 24 hours, Delhi conducted 86,526 tests. Despite h...