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The laboratories have been set up at Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Jalandhar; Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana; Punjab Biotechnology Incubator, Mohali; and Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory, Mohali. (Representational)
Punjab is set to ramp up COVID-19 testing as four government laboratories will start functioning in the coming week. On Friday, the four laboratories obtained the trial samples from ICMR for corroborative testing to get approval from the ICMR.
Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) Vice-Chancellor Dr Raj Bahadur said the trial samples included samples of two positive cases, two negative cases and one control case.
Dr Bahadur said that officials from the four laboratories collected samples from ICMR facility in Chandigarh on Friday. While ICMR knew the status of each sample, it was not revealed to the officials who collected the samples, as a standard operating procedure. “Now the tests would be conducted and if the results conform to the results already known to ICMR where they have given samples of two positive and negative cases each, the laboratories would be given the go-ahead to start testing. After approval from ICMR, we will start conducting tests,” Dr Bahadur told The Indian Express.
The laboratories have been set up at Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Jalandhar; Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana; Punjab Biotechnology Incubator, Mohali; and Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory, Mohali.
Punjab Medical Education and Research Department secretary D K Tiwari said with the setting up of four laboratories, Punjab had become “first state in the country” where apart from Departments of Health and Medical Education and Research, the facilities of state’s Home Department (Forensic Science Laboratory at Mohali), Animal Husbandry Department (Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Jalandhar, and Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University [GADVASU], Ludhiana) and Science and Technology Department (Punjab Biotechnology Incubator, Mohali) would be put to use for viral testing of COVID-19.
Each of the four laboratories is equipped with 16 pieces of equipment which include refrigerated centrifuge, fully automated biosafety cabinet, real time PCR and spectrometer. The paraphernilia cost Rs 1 crore for each laboratory. A total of 83 officials, which include microbiologists, research assistants, medical laboratory technicians, data entry operators and other ancillary staff, have been appointed in the four laboratories.
Each laboratory is expected to test 1,000 samples a day. The three government medical colleges in the state test 9,000 to 10,000 samples a day collectively. The testing capacity in the government facilities per day is set to reach between 13,000 and 14,000 when the four laboratories become functional next week.
711 new cases in Haryana, recovery rate crosses 80%
Chandigarh: As Haryana added another 711 new cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours, the recovery rate in Haryana crossed 80 per cent mark, Friday evening. The state’s cumulative number of Covid patients almost touched 35000 and 421 deaths.
Faridabad continued to witness a spike with 176 new cases, followed Gurgaon (78), Sonipat (21), Rohtak (62), Bhiwani (6), Rewari (74), Karnal (28), Ambala (48), Jhajjar (4), Palwal (37), Mahendragarh (19), Hisar (36), Panipat (44), Nuh (8), Sirsa (6), Jind (12), Fatehabad (4), Panchkula (29), Kaithal (6), and Charkhi Dadri (13).
Among the four patients who died due to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, one patient each died in Gurgaon, Rohtak, Ambala and Panipat. Out of total 421 patients who have lost their lives, till date, 264 had comorbidity while 157 patients did not have any comorbidities. According to state’s Friday evening Covid bulletin, there were yet 6317 active Covid patients. Out of these, there were 133 critical patients that included 116 on oxygen support while 17 patients were on ventilator support.
A total of 887 patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recovered patients to 28227 and a recovery rate of 80.73 per cent. ENS
Another record spike: 665 cases
Chandigarh, Ludhiana: In yet another sharpest spike, 665 new positive cases of novel coronavirus were reported from Punjab on Friday, driving up the total tally to 16,119 in the state.
Sixteen more deaths were reported, taking the total count of COVID-19 deaths to 386.
Six deaths were reported from Ludhiana (a man aged 47 and women aged 24, 43, 65, 65 and 66), three from Amritsar (a man aged 61 and women aged 62 and 75), two each from Patiala (a 70-year-old woman and 75-year-old man) and Barnala (women aged 52 and 70) and one each from Kapurthala (29-year-old woman), Jalandhar (55-year-old man) and Pathankot (58-year-old man).
Ludhiana reported maximum cases (248), followed by Patiala (156) and Amritsar (71).
Six policemen from Ludhiana city police tested positive Friday. Two constables, a woman constable and an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) tested positive from division number 6 police station, taking the total number of infected cops from this police station to seven. Two other ASIs, each posted at Mattewara police post and police commissioner’s office, also tested positive.
Ludhiana has reported maximum COVID-19 deaths (89), followed by Amritsar (79) and Jalandhar (53). Ludhiana has reported maximum cases of infection (3,211), followed by Jalandhar (2,249) and Amritsar (1,863).
As per the official media bulletin, there are 4,999 active cases, 135 of them on oxygen support and 10 on ventilator support. As many as 10,734 patients have been discharged. ENS
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