Guidelines issued for pool-testing of migrant workers, global travellers

Pool testing is a cost effective and time saving method of detecting the spread of Covid among the population

The Health ministry has issued guidelines for RT-PCR based pooled testing to assess the prevalence of Covid-19 among migrant workers and all those in institutional quarantine including international passengers, as the total count of confirmed patients in the country crossed 78,000. 

In the past one day, India registered 3,722 new cases and 134 deaths, taking the total toll to 2,549. While 26,235 patients have been cured, the government wants to ramp up pool testing, given the arrival of international passengers and the movement of migrant workers across the country. 

The pool sampling will be used as a surveillance tool in green zones