RT-PCR test

Bhubaneswar: The state government on Saturday directed the collectors and municipal commissioners to ensure that the devotees from their areas, who have gone to participate in Kumbh Mela, to…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has made a negative report of the RT-PCR test — considered as the gold standard of COVID-19 testing — mandatory for those arriving in the state to check…

Bhubaneswar: Apprehending a further surge in COVID-19 cases, the Odisha government on Thursday said that the people coming from hotspot states have to undergo the RT-PCR test. Talking to…

New Delhi: The Uttarakhand High Court has made the RT-PCR test mandatory for devotees planning to attend the Kumbh Mela next month. The court’s order comes within days of state chief…

New Delhi: Passengers flying in from the UK to Delhi will have to undergo quarantine, irrespective of whether they are COVID-positive or not. It will be mandatory for all incoming…

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has slashed the price of RT-PCR tests for detecting COVID-19 to Rs 800 now, NDTV reported. The test is being conducted free of cost in the…

Bhubaneswar: The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, has achieved a unique milestone by conducting one lakh sample test for COVID-19…

Bhubaneswar: All ministers, MLAs and staffers of the Assembly Secretariat will have to undergo manadtory COVID-19 test two days before the commencement of the monsoon session of the House,…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Friday fixed the fee for COVID test in private laboratories. For RT-PCR (real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) test, a person…

Very soon, the novel coronavirus could be visually detected in next to no time. In what could be a landmark study, scientists at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have…