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Pvt firms get infra ready to handle Covid-19 testing

17 - March - 2020

Mumbai: With the number of Covid-19 cases rising across India, companies are readying infrastructure diagnostic test kits and testing facilities which can be used quickly in case the viral load increases.Chennai-based medical device firm Trivitron Healthcare is developing diagnostic test kits for Covid-19, which would perhaps be the first indigenous kit to be launched, while major private testing laboratories, SRL Dr Avinash Phadke Labs and Metropolis, are getting their safety protocols and testing infrastructure ready. This comes even as the government reportedly plans to adopt an aggressive strategy to test random samples of people, who display flu-like symptoms but have no travel history to outbreak zones, in order to prevent community transmission.

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