Amid staff shortage, Covid testing at the Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) of Government Medical College here has been severely affected. The lab on Wednesday stopped accepting samples. Consequently, to avoid pendency, the Health Department has started conducting the rapid antigen tes
Amid concerns over the new variants of the Omicron virus, the state’s only genome sequencing lab at Government Medical College is running short of testing kits. As of now, the lab has not even a single test-kit of the whole genome sequencing.
Karam Prakash
Tribune News Service
Patiala, January 7
Amid the tsunami of Covid-19 cases, the efforts to detect and isolate the cases of the Omicron variant have been severely hit because the state
Karam Prakash
Tribune News Service
Patiala, December 13
The Punjab Health Department is likely to roll out a new Covid-19 vaccine (ZyCoV-D) in the state by next week.
Initially, it will be admin
Karam PrakashTribune News Service Patiala, November 30
Punjab’s only genome sequencing lab at Patiala’s Government Medical College has said Punjab hasn’t seen ‘Omicron&rs