Panaji: Goa government on Monday commissioned its virology lab at state run facility near here which will be used to test samples of suspected COVID-19 patients.
State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said that on Monday they received certification by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) to start the virology labouratory.
“ Happy to announce that our Virology lab has been certified by the ICMR. The testing facility has started full fledged at GMCH, we are also parallely using the testing kits from MyLab. All the facilities are now up to date,” Rane tweeted.
When contacted, the minister said that the state has enough stock of reagent kits and rapid testing kits which are required for the testing.
He said that the lab has been set up in record time with the help of union government.
The medical professionals from GMCH were trained at National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.
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