All you need to know about the revised guidelines for Covid-19 testing

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released revised guidelines for TrueNat, a comprehensive assay for screening and testing for positive cases for Covid-19, on Tuesday.

The circular published by the apex medical body also elaborated on the steps to be followed for new testing.

As per the guidelines, all samples of Covid-19 suspect should be first tested by this assay, and later be subjected to confirmation by step 2.

Step 2 is called RdRp gene confirmation assay, and if the sample tests positive through this it