Mumbai: In the midst of increasing Covid-19 cases, BMC Commissioner Iqbal Chahal, in the command signed on January 1, has confirmed that the laboratory that conducts RT-PCR tests in Mumbai must ensure their turn-around time (TAT) does not exceed 24 hours and positive.
Cases were reported in real-time on the Portal of the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR).
“The new new and slightly changed Omicron Corona virus variant has spread to several countries, including India, raising concerns that it can encourage the wave of the next infection throughout the country.
As most cases of light or asymptomatic breakthroughs, people with breakthrough infections may not even know To be tested and can transmit viruses unconsciously.
Therefore early diagnosis is the key …, “said BMC circular.
Some guidelines include turn-around time under 24 hours for laboratories (from the time Swab samples are collected by the lab to the declaration of the results with BMC) and the laboratory must post real-time entries on the results on the ICMR website.
According to him, Colaba Corporator Makrand Narwekar wrote to the Head of BMC, said: “There is a high court of Bombay, Nagpur Bench, order where the pathology laboratory is directed to send RT-PCR reports on magic or hard copies immediately without waiting to upload on the ICMR portal.”