PATNA: With the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) installing Cobas 6800 machine at Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRI) here on Monday, the number of Covid-19 tests in the state is expected to increase manifold in the next couple of days.
The sophisticated machine, enabled with robotics, minimises the chance of contamination as well as the risk of infection to healthcare workers. It has the capability to conduct up to 1,500 tests per day.
RMRI director Dr Pradeep Das said the machine has been installed and the two-day training of doctors, who will conduct the Covid tests, has also started. “We are hopeful that tests through Cobas 6800 machine would begin from June 24 or 25,” he said.
Dr Das said the number of tests at RMRI would touch 3,000 from 2,000 per day after the new facility becomes operational. “The test results will be out in just three hours with the use of the new machine. The RT-PCR machines used to take at least seven hours to complete the process,” Dr Das said.
“To increase the testing capacity of the country @ICMRDELHI has set up a high throughput machine in @rmrims Patna! It can test up to 1500 samples per day (sic),” the ICMR tweeted.
According to health department sources, around 6,500 Covid tests are conducted at several testing facilities in the state per day. In last 24 hours, 6,550 samples were tested at different labs in the state – 2,038 at RMRI, 922 at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science, 715 at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital, 488 at AIIMS- Patna, 410 at Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur, 241 at Patna Medical College and Hospital and 126 at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur. The remaining 1,610 samples were tested through Truenat machines at different centres.
The sophisticated machine, enabled with robotics, minimises the chance of contamination as well as the risk of infection to healthcare workers. It has the capability to conduct up to 1,500 tests per day.
RMRI director Dr Pradeep Das said the machine has been installed and the two-day training of doctors, who will conduct the Covid tests, has also started. “We are hopeful that tests through Cobas 6800 machine would begin from June 24 or 25,” he said.
Dr Das said the number of tests at RMRI would touch 3,000 from 2,000 per day after the new facility becomes operational. “The test results will be out in just three hours with the use of the new machine. The RT-PCR machines used to take at least seven hours to complete the process,” Dr Das said.
“To increase the testing capacity of the country @ICMRDELHI has set up a high throughput machine in @rmrims Patna! It can test up to 1500 samples per day (sic),” the ICMR tweeted.
According to health department sources, around 6,500 Covid tests are conducted at several testing facilities in the state per day. In last 24 hours, 6,550 samples were tested at different labs in the state – 2,038 at RMRI, 922 at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science, 715 at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital, 488 at AIIMS- Patna, 410 at Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur, 241 at Patna Medical College and Hospital and 126 at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur. The remaining 1,610 samples were tested through Truenat machines at different centres.
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