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Covid in India: Only high-risk contacts of patients need to be tested, advises ICMR

Individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel also do not need to get tested.

Published: Wed 12 Jan 2022, 10:43 AM

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Contacts of confirmed Covid cases do not need to get tested unless identified as high risk based on age or comorbidities, according to a new government advisory.

The ICMR Advisory on Purposive Testing Strategy for Covid-19 said individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel also do not need to get tested.

It said testing can be undertaken either through RT-PCR, TrueNat, CBNAAT, CRISPR, RT-LAMP, Rapid Molecular Testing Systems or through Rapid Antigen Test (RAT).

A positive point-of-care test [home or self-test/RAT] and molecular test is to be considered confirmatory, without any repeat testing, the advisory said.

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Symptomatic individuals, testing negative on home/self-test or RAT should undertake RT-PCR test, it stated.



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