Hiring more staff, expanding capacity and opening walk-in centres are some of the steps laboratories are taking to cope with the twin imperatives of increased tests and timely results as Covid cases spike sharply in the country. As India copes with an Omicron driven explosion in numbers, the spotlight is on laboratories that are pulling out all the stops to ensure they are
India's stock benchmarks declined on Friday, but logged gains for the week for the first time since the week-ended November 12, aided by gains in information technology stocks. The S&P BSE Sensex fell 1.31% to 57,696.46. The NSE Nifty 50 also declined by similar magnitude to 17,196.70.