TopicCovid-19 testing

Topic: Covid-19 testing

At 4.2 lakh, India’s highest Covid tests in a day is good news, but positivity rate a concern

Swagata Yadavar - July 25, 2020

Data released by the health ministry shows India's positivity rate at 11.61%. A consistent 5% over two weeks is required to ease public health measures.

Covid symptoms, prescription not enough, Kolkata residents face week’s wait or more for test

Madhuparna Das - July 24, 2020

Some of Kolkata’s biggest hospitals have been handing out dates as far as three weeks after the onset of symptoms. Govt helplines seem to be of no help either.

Gujarat, once a model healthcare system, is struggling with India’s worst Covid death rate

Kairvy Grewal - July 23, 2020

Gujarat has registered over 50,000 Covid-19 cases, and despite a dip in the mortality rate since June, the infection seems to be peaking again.

Now French, German studies say HCQ doesn’t prevent, treat Covid in primates, human lung cells

Sandhya Ramesh - July 22, 2020

Both peer-reviewed studies published in Nature tested HCQ as pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis or prevention and treatment of Covid-19 infection.

US leading world in Covid testing with 50 million tests, followed by India, says Trump

Lalit K Jha - July 22, 2020

So far more than 1,40,000 Americans have died due to coronavirus and 3.8 million have tested positive as the economy re-opens.

Delhi’s Covid-19 infection fatality rate stands at 0.07%, show sero survey results

Abantika Ghosh - July 21, 2020

Large variation in infection rates found in 11 districts with Central Delhi registering the highest rate at 27.86%.

In Delhi, rapid antigen tests fuel spurt in testing but false negatives a worry

Sravasti Dasgupta - July 20, 2020

Delhi government data shows 18% of negative rapid antigen results sent for follow-up RT-PCR tests came back positive.

Easy, ‘do it at home’ saliva test to detect Covid-19 under trial in UK’s Southampton

Simrin Sirur - July 19, 2020

In the four-week trial, participants send their samples every week for testing and their results are sent back within 48 hours.

As Covid cases surge, Centre asks West Bengal to step up testing, bring down fatality rate

Abantika Ghosh - July 18, 2020

Bengal has reported 40,209 cases and 1,076 deaths. It’s conducting 6,790 tests per million, while its average positivity rate for the last 7 days is 13.18%.

Delhi’s Covid infection rate falls below 1, Goa’s tests per million highest in India

Kairvy Grewal - July 16, 2020

States Tracker — a daily comprehensive look at how much each state is testing for Covid-19, and how fast and widely the infection is spreading.

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