 | Puri Police busts temple entry racket using fake RT-PCR reports, 12 heldThe RT-PCR reports appeared to be genuine and carried Aadhaar card details of the devotees carrying them. |
 | Over 70 per cent COVID tests in last five months in Delhi were RT-PCRs: DataReal Time Polymer Chain Reaction test (RT-PCR), which detects the viral genetic material (RNA), is considered more reliable than Rapid Antigen Test (RAT). |
 | Medical staff to stay in bubble with players during IPL, BCCI to facilitate 30,000 RT-PCR testsThe rescheduled IPL will have RT-PCR testing every third day, instead of every fifth day during the last edition in the UAE. |
 | Why someone unlikely to transmit COVID should undergo RT-PCR? Kerala HC asks state, CentreThe query was posed to the state government during hearing of a plea by a man who refuses to be vaccinated and has challenged the COVID guidelines. |
 | Only RT-PCR in six Kerala districts where 80% people got Covid jabThe state government on Tuesday decided to do only RT-PCR tests in six districts where around 80% of the population have received at least first dose of vaccine. |
 | COVID-19: Maharashtra makes negative RT-PCR report must for international passengers on arrivalThe Maharashtra government later issued a statement mentioning that fresh rules of the Central government mandate a negative RT-PCR test report before arriving in India. |
 | Nine held at Kerala border checkpost with fake Covid reportsPolice Commissioner N Shashikumar said seven persons were arrested on Wednesday at the Talapady inter-state border. |
 | Odisha speaker makes RT-PCR negative report mandatory for entering HouseApart from MLAs, RT-PCR tests will also be held for all the Assembly employees and its ministerial staff, as per a decision taken at a meeting chaired by Patro during the day. |
 | Sree Chitra launches new RT-PCR kit with high accuracy, faster resultsThe validation found the kit has 97.3% sensitivity and 100% specificity in Covid detection. |
 | ICMR projects export of 62 crore COVID-19 testing kits between July and SeptemberIt further said the production capacity of COVID-19 testing kits has been substantially enhanced, "making India atmanirbhar (self-reliant)". |
 | Manjeshwar MLA on day-long hunger strike against Karnataka's mandatory RT-PCR ruleKarnataka government is spreading misinformation that Keralites are responsible for covid cases in the state, but data proves otherwise, says A K M Ashraf |
 | Ministry of Tourism urges states to drop mandatory RT-PCR clause for fully vaccinated touristsStates such as West Bengal (for travellers from Mumbai, Pune and Chennai), Karnataka, Goa and Chhattisgarh still ask for negative RT-PCR reports, irrespective of double vaccination status. |
 | Negative Covid report or full vaccination must for visiting Himachal from August 13In its earlier order on August 6, the state government made mandatory a negative RT-PCR report or full vaccination for visiting temples in the state during 'Shrawan Ashtmi Navratras'. |
 | Kerala opens to address livelihood, but raises immunity barriers to confine public indoorsHowever, a last-minute change was made even by keeping the health minister in the dark to sound it like a compulsory clause. |
 | They start and stop in Kerala, but at Karnataka’s mercy to travelThe Karnataka government’s decision to make RT-PCR test results mandatory for people from Kerala has upended the lives of those living on the state border. |
