Amit Shah launches mobile RT-PCR lab in Delhi; will conduct free COVID tests
The Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing mobile laboratory, a joint initiative of the SpiceHealth and the federal government, got here up after Shah stepped in to battle the current spurt in the variety of COVID-19 instances in Delhi with a detailed coordination of varied wings of the Centre and the Delhi authorities.
The laboratory was inaugurated by the house minister. The tests could be carried out free of price for the individuals of Delhi and the studies will be out there in six to eight hours, an official spokesperson mentioned.
The price of the check is Rs 499 and it will be borne by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the official mentioned.
Earlier, a home ministry statement had mentioned that the check on the mobile RT-PCR laboratory could possibly be carried out at an inexpensive worth of Rs 499.
The charge for an RT-PCR check, thought of to be essentially the most correct COVID check worldwide, in different laboratories was fastened at Rs 2,400 by a government-appointed committee and the report is often out there in 24-48 hours.
The SpiceHealth, a part of the aviation group SpiceJet, in a press release mentioned the laboratory can course of as much as 3,000 check studies per day and it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The SpiceHealth mentioned it will arrange 20 laboratories in totally different elements of the nation in the primary part and a major proportion of the tests will be carried out in collaboration with businesses of the Centre and the state governments.
Delhi’s well being infrastructure has began bettering after Shah chaired a high-level assembly on November 15 and gave 12 directions, following a recent spike in the variety of COVID-19 instances in the nationwide capital.
The spurt in the variety of coronavirus instances in Delhi was witnessed since October 28, when the each day rise breached the 5,000-mark for the primary time. It crossed the 8,000-mark on November 11.
The metropolis recorded 6,746 recent COVID-19 instances on Sunday, taking the entire variety of instances to five,29,863, whereas 121 extra fatalities pushed the dying toll because of the illness to eight,391 in town.
The recent instances got here out of the 54,893 tests carried out on Saturday, together with 23,433 RT-PCR tests, in response to a bulletin issued by the Delhi well being division.
On November 20, the Union home ministry had mentioned the capability of each day RT-PCR tests in Delhi was elevated to 37,200.
A complete of 30,735 RT-PCR tests have been carried out in Delhi on November 19 and the variety of such tests carried out on November 15 was simply 12,055, the house ministry had mentioned.
As a part of the efforts to ramp up Delhi’s medical infrastructure, a complete of 205 ICU beds and 116 oxygenated beds have been added in numerous metropolis hospitals on Friday.
The Delhi authorities has additionally launched a door-to-door survey for potential coronavirus sufferers and until Friday, 3,70,729 individuals have been surveyed.
“For the first time, the number of RT-PCR tests in Delhi has exceeded that of the rapid antigen tests,” a house ministry spokesperson mentioned on Sunday.
