Centre’s fresh guidelines echo practices in Telangana
The Hindu
The Central government on Friday issued a set of fresh guidelines to meet the challenge of rise in COVID cases, some of which have already been implemented by the Telangana government.In a letter to C
The Central government on Friday issued a set of fresh guidelines to meet the challenge of rise in COVID cases, some of which have already been implemented by the Telangana government.
In a letter to Chief Secretaries of all States, Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Rajesh Bhushan and Secretary of the Department of Health Research Balram Bhargava asked State governments to increase testing by widespread use of rapid antigen tests in specific situations where RTPCR testing posed challenges.
Based on previous experience, it was observed that if the number of cases rose above a certain threshold, RTPCR based testing led to delays in confirming diagnosis due to its turnaround time of about five to eight hours.