Ranchi: The State Health Department on Wednesday night directed Ranchi’s civil surgeon Dr.
Vinod Kumar to send more than 60 covid testing kits to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, (RIMS) Ranchi to check the quality.
It comes a day after the health care authorities here report that more than 70 passengers, who have tested positive Covid-19 last week on their arrival at the Beiaia station through the Rapid Antigen test (mouse), negatively tested through RT-PCR as soon as.
After contact, the State Epidemiology of Dr.
Praveen Karkus said, “When the Department of Microbiology in the Rims has been designated as a batch kit testing center, we have decided to send a kit there to check its quality.” Testing kits sent to check including 15 kit rats, 15 RT-PCR kits and swab samples of 15 passengers, out of more than 70 passengers mentioned above, who have tested positive and 15 passengers tested negatively on their arrival in the heart.
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On Tuesday, Dr.
Kumar said during a press conference that more than 70 passengers were tested positive through the rat kit at the Hatia Station on October 22 and 23, after health workers deployed at the station immediately collected their RT-PCR samples for their RT-PCR test.
But the results are found negative.
“We asked the state health department to check the quality of the kit used at the train station.” After contact, the Head of the Microbiology Department in Rims, Dr.
Manoj Kumar, said: “We have received a kit and we have started testing their quality.
Testing will be completed in the next two days, here we will send a report to the Ministry of Health.”