 | VIP culture disrupts Covid testing in TelanganaPoliticians, members of various parties and bureaucrats have brought the VIP culture to Covid testing, putting more pressure on the common man. |
 | Fewer tests in Telangana may lead to more COVID casesState’s R0 valve — the number of people a Covid+ve person can infect — rises to 1.55, the 8th worst in country; ntn’l avg at 1.32 |
 | Remove RT-PCR test requirement for inter-state travel: ICMR in new advisory on COVID testingSeveral states such as Maharashtra and Karnataka insist on a RTPCR negative before allowing any traveller in. |
 | Telangana shows dip in COVID-19 cases, albeit with poor rates of testingOn Sunday, the State detected 5,695 cases of COVID-19 after conducting only 58,742 tests with the Test Positivity Rate of the State currently at 10.39 per cent. |
 | Sarpanch goes to rescue of Covid positive woman shunned by relativesWhen she informed the matter to her relatives who live in the same locality, none of them turned up to take care of her out of fear of contracting the virus. |
 | Slippers handy amid long lines in Nirmal for Covid testingThe District Medical and Health Officer C Dhanraj said that sufficient kits would be made available as per the demand. |
 | 2-3 days delay in getting test results a cause for concernIn Tirupati, where more cases are reported every day, testing has been delayed due to technical snags. |
 | 300 flyers rush out to skip mandatory Covid test at Assam airportCachar district Additional Deputy Commissioner Sumit Sattawan said a total of 690 passengers arrived at the airport from various parts of the country aboard six aircraft. |
 | Manpower crunch, infected professionals delaying COVID test reports in DelhiNearly 99,000 coronavirus tests were conducted on Friday while 82,569 tests were carried out on the preceeding. |
 | Covid testing to be ramped up in BhubaneswarMahapatra said the patients in home isolation should be contacted on a daily basis and given necessary advice. |
 | COVID test results not delivered over 4 days in Jharkhand; some labs stop sample collectionThe increase in sample collection, which went to 1000-1200 everyday from 150-200 per day last month, is cited as the reason behind overload and backlog. |
 | Will take steps to up Covid testing: SudhakarDirections given by the Union Health Minister in Tuesday’s VC were conveyed to the district administrations. |
 | SAI orders stricter COVID-19 protocols at its centers, all athletes to be tested weeklyThe SAI said the precautions and norms will be implemented keeping Olympic probable athletes in mind, so that their training does not suffer. |
 | South Korea mulls over approving COVID rapid tests for home useHealth authorities had previously been reluctant to expand the use of rapid antigen tests and other forms of fast testing, which could produce results within 30 minutes but are less accurate |
 | Mass testing of NIT students beginsThe institute had come in for criticism after 4 students tested positive within a fortnight |
