Bhubaneswar: Stepping up its measures to fight COVID-19 in Odisha’ Capital, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started Rapid-Antigen testing at nine Urban Primary Health Centre/ Urban Community Health Centre (UPHCs/UCHCs) from Tuesday.
Expanding the #COVID19 testing facilities, BMC will start testing at 9 UPHCs/UCHCs from tomorrow.
Citizens may kindly approach the centres for testing. #HomeIsolation by following due procedure is allowed. 1/2#BbsrFightsCOVID pic.twitter.com/DRIgaX9Yen
— BMC (@bmcbbsr) August 10, 2020
The Rapid-Antigen testing has started at 8 am and will continue till 2 pm. The test conducted by BMC is free of cost. The centres at which the test is conducting are UPHC at Niladri Vihar, Unit-3, Pokhariput, Unit-8, Unit-9, Saheed Nagar, Patia, Dumduma and Unit-4.
BMC has also urged denizens to approach the centres for testing. The old age, persons with comorbid conditions or slum related positive persons who will be identified with COVID-19 positive will admitted to COVID facilities, the BMC tweeted.
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