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Covid-19: Government Set To Conduct ‘Pool Testing’ To Speed Up Results, Bring Down Workload On Laboratories

Swarajya StaffApr 11, 2020, 09:44 AM | Updated 09:44 AM IST
Covid 19 

Covid 19 


India is gearing up to initiate pool testing for Covid-19 to speed up the results, augment capacity and reduce the workload on the laboratories, reports Economic Times.

Pool testing method involves putting multiple swab samples together and testing them in a single go using RT-PCR test for confirmation. If the samples test negative, it is clear that all the persons involved have tested negative. However, if the samples test is positive, the ones whose swabs were used would then have to be tested separately to identify the particular positive cases.


Furthermore, the government is also said to have rushed a team of experts consisting doctors, epidemiologists and microbiologists to various states which are witnessing increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases to carry out the conduction of pool testing in direly affected areas to contain the infection.

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