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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Topic: Testing

India set to receive 6.5 lakh Covid-19 testing kits from China today

5.5 lakh rapid antibody testing kits from Wondfo Biotech Co and Zhuhai Livzon Diagnostics Inc and 1 lakh RNA extraction kits from MGI Shenzhen have been shipped.

Modi govt approves made-in-India rapid test kits after Chinese supply is delayed

New list of approved kits includes 3 made by Indian firms and more from other countries. The first 7 lakh kits from China were supposed to arrive by 8 April.

SC modifies free Covid-19 test order, says it wasn’t intended for those who can afford them

Supreme Court now says private labs can charge the capped price of Rs 4,500 for Covid-19 testing, fixed by the ICMR, to those who can afford it.

Why a total lockdown of India after 14 April will be counter-productive

Modi’s 3-week lockdown has worked. An overdose of it can hurt more than help. It should be systematically loosened or de-escalated.

Amazon to build Covid-19 testing lab to protect workforce delivering essential goods

In blog post Thursday, online retailer said it has begun assembling equipment for the first lab and hoped to start testing small numbers of frontline employees soon.

Why coronavirus antibody tests are not a passport to return to work

Positive antibody test isn’t automatic ticket back to work until people can also be tested to ensure they don’t have any active virus lingering in their bodies.

Is forcing private labs to make Covid-19 tests free the only way to stop spread of infection?

The Supreme Court directed the central government to make Covid-19 testing by private laboratories free of charge Wednesday.

Free Covid-19 tests unnecessary judicial activism by SC, policymaking should be left to experts

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Supreme Court directs approved govt, private labs to conduct free testing for Covid-19

The bench said that tests must be carried out in NABL accredited labs or agencies approved by WHO or ICMR and asked Centre to immediately issue directions.

The four stages of Covid-19 transmission & why India maintains it is not yet in stage 3

ICMR Saturday released new containment guidelines, acknowledging and preparing for a potential community spread.

On Camera

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.