More COVID-19 tests in government hospitals in Kozhikode to arrest TPR
The Hindu
All community health centres in the district have been asked to conduct at least 100 RT-PCR tests and 75 antigen tests every day
Kozhikode has become one of the first districts in Kerala to ramp up the frequency and the number of COVID-19 lab tests in government hospitals in a bid to streamline the detection of daily test positivity rate (TPR) of the infection. The effort would also help detect patients with the Indian strain of SARS-CoV-2 or its variants. According to sources in the Health Department, all community health centres have been asked to conduct at least 100 RT-PCR tests and 75 antigen tests every day. District hospital, general hospital, the hospital for women and children and taluk hospitals should conduct 150 RT-PCR and antigen tests daily.
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