No plan to reduce the daily number of Covid19 tests: Gujarat govt

Gandhinagar: In her morning media briefing today here, Principal Secretary, Health, Govt of Gujarat refuted media reports that government had any intention to cut the number of daily Covid19 tests.

‘We had capacity of 3,000 tests/day and we have been utilizing this capacity at optimum level. We are continuing to do same in future also and there’s no plan to reduce daily number of tests. We have planned 2,500 tests per day covering various areas and rest of the tests for those who under quarantine to check whether they are Covid19 positive, and for those Covid19 positive cases who are under treatment and recovering, to check twice in two days span, whether they have fully recovered and turned Covid19 negative or not, ‘ Principal Secretary said.

Principal Secretary, Health, Govt of Gujarat: We utilize our 3,000 tests/day capacity at optimum level and we are continuing to do same. No cut in number of tests. We have planned 2,500 tests in various areas and rest for those under quarantine or under treatment and recovering pic.twitter.com/7iExjvLmb4

— DeshGujarat (@DeshGujarat) April 23, 2020

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