SKIMS halts OPD services Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, Jan 14: The administration in Kashmir today announced the start of 3rd wave of COVID-19 in Kashmir and ordered establishment of Triage Centres besides designating all those hospitals as “dedicated Covid Hospitals which were earmarked for such purpose previously. As per minutes of meeting regarding implementation of mitigation measures for the control of “3rd wave,” Divisional Commissioner Kashmir P K Pole stressed upon the application of fundamental Principles of Patient Care Management of […]
Why the discharge policy and home isolation is set at 7 days - ICMR Chief replies - RT-PCR tests will continue to be positive even after day 8 as certain non-infective RNA particles will continue to shed causing results to be positive
The Centre on Wednesday said lateral flow tests, which includes rapid-antigen and home-antigen tests, can detect Covid from the third day after exposure to the virus to day eight while the RT-PCR test can diagnose the infection for up to 20 days.