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A doctor will perform a swab test for coronavirus in Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) in Gauhati. (AP)
Now, the icmr has issued revised guidelines for TrueNat test for COVID-19, saying that the ‘TrueNat system is now a comprehensive assay for the detection and confirmation of COVID-19 cases”.
- PTI New Delhi
- Last Update: May 20, 2020, 12:17 PM IST
Diagnosis of machines used for the testing of drug-resistant tb can be used for the detection and confirmation of COVID-19 cases, the apex of health research body, icmr, said.
As part of its efforts to ramp up the capacity test, the Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr) that it had approved the use of TrueNat system for conducting corona tests on April 10, while recommend only as a screening test.
Now, the icmr has issued revised guidelines for TrueNat test for COVID-19, saying that the “TrueNat system is now a comprehensive assay for the detection and confirmation of COVID-19 cases”.
According to the guidelines, all samples of suspected COVID-19 should be first tested for the gene And screening. All the negatives are to be considered as true negative. All positive samples should be subjected to confirmation by another step. Step 2 is the RdRp gene confirmatory assay. All samples that test positive by this assay should be considered as a true positive.
“There is No more RT-PCR-based confirmation is needed for samples that are positive after step 2 of the test,” revision of the guidelines.
All the positive and negative results must be reported to the icmr portal in real-time.
The number of dead due to COVID-19 rose to 3,303, and the number of cases rose to 10,6750 in the country, registering an increase of 140 deaths and a record of the shank of 5,611 cases in the last 24 hours from Tuesday, 8 am, according to the Union, the Ministry of Health.
A total of 25,12,388 samples have been tested for the infection by the coronavirus as at 9 in the morning, the 20 of May all over the country.
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