Each state interpreting the ICMR's guidelines in its own way
06 May 2020 9:27 AM
There's a discrepancy in the number of COVID-19 cases reported by the state in its medical bulletins and its communication with the Centre
04 May 2020 3:25 PM
The brand claims its test relies on intravenous blood draws, which gives results with higher accuracy than finger-prick tests
04 May 2020 12:34 PM
One practitioner wonders if that is why the state's new case numbers are so low
30 Apr 2020 9:12 AM
Rahul Gandhi said that the country will "never forgive" those making an unfair profit by selling testing kits
27 Apr 2020 3:01 PM
Congress has been urging the government to increase random testing in the country
26 Apr 2020 3:08 PM
In a sudden policy switch two days ago, health officials stopped testing secondary contacts unless they had covid-19 symptoms
26 Apr 2020 8:49 AM
The software has been fed a database of lung X-rays of thousands of covid, pneumonia and TB patients to tell them apart, the professor says.
24 Apr 2020 1:37 PM
India procured five lakh rapid antibody test kits from two Chinese firms and they were distributed to states with rising corona cases
22 Apr 2020 1:26 PM
Data released by the government showed only 826 samples were sent for testing, of which reports of 780 patients have been received
20 Apr 2020 4:34 PM
Ongoing nationwide lockdown is like a pause button and not a solution to defeat the virus, says Congress leader
16 Apr 2020 4:17 PM
India is going in the right direction but it is not enough
16 Apr 2020 11:46 AM
Healthcare workers can collect samples from outside a booth, protected by a screen from the potential carrier of the contagion inside
15 Apr 2020 5:02 PM
Named Coswara, the project uses the same concept being worked upon by an Israeli startup called Vocalis Health
15 Apr 2020 1:49 PM
The Congress leader also called up creation of more isolation wards and quarantine centres
10 Apr 2020 1:42 PM
There have also been reports of staff being turned away from drive-in test centres because they did not have the correct paperwork
02 Apr 2020 5:28 PM
Devi Sridhar warned that the UK could be in for an endless cycle of lockdown and release, even as the virus has claimed 1,789 lives
01 Apr 2020 5:27 PM
Voice samples from virus carriers in various stages of illness and non-infected people are being collected to detect a vocal 'fingerprint'
31 Mar 2020 1:59 PM
It may predict the potential spread of the virus by picking up signatures of it in faeces from disease carriers that enter water systems
31 Mar 2020 12:51 PM
Each test costs as little as £4 or around Rs 350, while the testing devices themselves cost £100 or less than Rs 9,000.
26 Mar 2020 6:03 PM