In a care home with no positive cases for 2 weeks or more, the local health board must offer testing to all staff on a weekly basis. Updated the list of essential workers and added information on when more testing kits and appointment slots will become available. Bollywood Breaking 20-20: Who threatened to kill Sushant's friend? The remaining adult care homes will be able to register for retesting from 31 August. Added unpaid carers to list of essential workers and those prioritised for testing (England only). In a care home where there is one or more confirmed case of coronavirus, the local health board must offer testing to all staff and residents regardless of symptoms as part of enhanced outbreak investigations. However, we have a request for those who can afford to subscribe: please do. (ANI), Submit previous trial data for Covaxin before rolling out phase III: Drug regulator to Bharat Biotech, Odisha registers 2,854 new COVID-19 cases, 15 deaths, Massive waterlogging brings Madurai at standstill, India's active COVID caseload stands at 12.65% of total infections: Govt, College student from Madurai creates handicraft items from waste amid COVID-19, Telangana reports 1,811 new COVID-19 cases, 9 deaths, 301 youth from J&K, Ladakh join ranks of Indian Army, copyrights © aninews.in | All rights Reserved. Notification of problem with Randox test kits. Eligibility for NHS and essential worker testing is now the same across the UK. See a graphic summarising testing for care homes (PDF, 60.2KB, 2 pages). We have been keeping you up-to-date with information on the developments in India and the world that have a bearing on our health and wellbeing, our lives and livelihoods, during these difficult times. Added link to register a home test kit before a hospital procedure. Private laboratories which intend to initiate testing using CBNAAT should have NABL accreditation for molecular detection of RNA viruses either by Real-Time PCR or by CBNAAT, ICMR added. Guidance on coronavirus testing, including who is eligible for a test and how to get tested. Added that children under 5 years old in England and Wales who have symptoms of coronavirus and live with an essential worker can now be tested. Any laboratory which is already functional for SARS CoV2 testing by real-time PCR with the appropriate BSL-2 setup may initiate testing using Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV 2 without any further approval from ICMR. All the labs which have applied can reach out to the ICMR with a copy of their NABL application. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines.

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