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The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday opened the testing of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases to private sector diagnostic laboratories to improve the process of thermal screening across the country.
The Ministry and ICMR have issued guidelines for private laboratories to conduct Covid-19 tests and urged these establishments to conduct the tests free of cost. The private centres would work under the domain of ICMR.
The ICMR has also revised the criteria for testing coronavirus patients.
