New Delhi: In a bid to reduce the burden on the testing laboratories within the nation, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday (May 4) issued new guidelines for COVID-19 testing.
ICMR has suggested to take away the requirement of testing for folks travelling from one state to one other. The transfer comes after a number of states have imposed guidelines requiring necessary testing for incoming passengers.
“An unprecedented upsurge of COVID-19 cases and deaths is currently being witnessed across India. The overall nationwide test positivity rate is above 20%,” the ICMR stated in a press release.
“Testing-tracking-tracing, isolation and home-based treatment of positive patients is the key measure to curb transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19,” it added.
Apart from journey restrictions, ICMR’s advisory additionally urged others methods to cope up with the rising caseload.
Here are the six measures ICMR really useful to optimize COVID-19 testing:
1. RT-PCR test should not be repeated in any particular person who has examined constructive as soon as both by RAT or RT-PCR.
2. No testing is required for COVID-19 recovered people on the time of hospital discharge in accordance with the discharge coverage of MOH&FW.
3. The need for RT-PCR test in wholesome people enterprise inter-state home journey could also be fully eliminated to reduce the load on laboratories.
4. Non-essential journey and interstate journey of symptomatic people (COVID-19 or flu-like signs) needs to be primarily prevented to reduce the danger of an infection.
5. All asymptomatic people enterprise important journey should observe COVID-appropriate conduct.
6. Mobile testing laboratories are actually accessible on GeM portal. States are inspired to increase RT-PCR testing via cellular methods.
Check out the detailed guidelines right here:
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— ICMR (@ICMRDELHI) May 4, 2021
